Right-wingers love to play the victim card
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Like so many Americans, I’ve grown more than weary over editorial pieces that are churned out in our nation’s “newspapers” these days. I am also a glutton for punishment, so I occasionally glance at the self-styled “too conservative for the Philadelphia Inquirer” Christine Flowers’s pagelong tangents.
Most recently, I read a piece about racism in America and Atticus Finch is mentioned twice in
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the opening paragraph. Oh boy. Ignoring how absurd it is to have your views on race shaped by fiction; I’m more disgusted at Ms. Flowers’s insistence on making the demands of anti-racist protesters all about her.
“Who will think of the white women?” is the serious question our brave and noble editorialist asks. Therein lies not the crime of white women, but of the modern American conservative: An inherent desire to be a victim.
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Republicans in the press love to demonize left-wing college students like myself who are somehow both “dangerous statue-destroying antifa thugs” and “coddled snowflakes that are too afraid to leave the confines of their university’s Liberal Arts wing.” However, right-wing culture has, since the Obama era, relied on portraying itself as the victim. It’s a small wonder why they chose a thin-skinned, tweeter-in-chief who complains
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Ms. Flowers, nobody is blaming you for Emmett Till’s death (also correctly spelling his name does not gain one special “not-racist points”). And nobody is asking you to apologize for being white. Perhaps in the online world, which is a place where I understand Ms. Flowers has gotten into some trouble, might give rise to
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some hysterical voices making outlandish claims. However, Twitter is not real life, nobody is “coming for white women.”
People want material changes to the criminal justice system, and so Ms. Flowers, since you love touting your father’s record on anti-racism during the Civil Rights era, I ask, what have you done during what is arguably one of the most important moments in American history? Will your only contribution to this moment be an editorial that makes white women the real victim in systemic police violence against Black people?
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