Sentences with phrase «of white liberal»

The disappointments of democracy confronted by the Gugulective are explored in a recent article on the history of white liberal patronage in South Africa by Sean O» Toole.

Granted, Get Out is more concerned with a very specific sort of white liberal racism than the more traditional KKK style, one predicated on hiding prejudices behind an exterior of hollow inclusivity, but its racial sentiments feel undeniably prescient considering how the rest of 2017 ended up playing out.

(One is also reminded of the character in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace who uncomplainingly accepts her rape by three black men out of white liberal guilt.)

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

Get Out is sharp and cutting during its buildup — you'll never want this section to end — and the addition of two awkwardly ingratiating adults (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) makes a comic meal out of white liberal privilege with every «cool» handshake and turn of phrase («Hug me, my man!»

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

Hard feelings were precisely what now constituted in the minds of white liberals the essential manifestation of black authenticity.

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King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

If she wins the White House, they'll trail her into the Oval Office, planting seeds of distrust among some of her liberal allies.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

«The Catholic bishops and their allies in the Republican Party are increasingly isolated,» James Salt, executive director of a liberal group called Catholics United, said in a statement over the weekend supporting the White House's contraception rule.

@n900 mixalot what are you blah blah blah about are you one of those slavacrats agreeing with everything your white liberal master is telling you about the world.

Isaac Chotiner explains that the expressed desire / hope / prediction of many liberals that the Boston bombers turn out to be white non-Muslims was based on a «reasoned reactions to a society that is still full of racism and bigotry» and that «in times of national emergency or stress,....

@DC so what are you saying you white liberals are sure talking about the past of Jim Crow you know that old Jimmy Crow was a Democract idea.

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

The political version of crying racism in the face of every form of opposition to, say, busing or affirmative action has brought on the current crisis in the politics of both blacks and white liberals.

And they were able to do so precisely because we were complacent and lazy, assuming that the wider world would always reflect the basic values of the white, liberal Protestant establishment.

It is depressing, for example, to see liberals working so hard for Nixon's impeachment, as if he were the enemy, as if changing the occupant of the White House would really begin to touch the forces and powers for whom the occupant of the White House, wittingly or unwittingly, is a mere flunky.

For both many African - Americans and many white liberals, to speak openly of this personal responsibility is, in effect, to exonerate European Americans for their complicity in deeply embedded racist practices.

Continue reading «Meditation of a Middle - Aged, (Upper) Middle - Class, White, Liberal, Protestant Parent»

White, affluent liberals should prioritize the interests of poorer, less secular Democrats, instead of maintaining their privileged position.

Too often, white liberals try to demonstrate their racial generosity by insisting that color doesn't make a difference, and that aside from the natural accident of color we have in common our humanity.

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

This is the dilemma facing affluent white liberals: They want to lead a coalition in favor of equality, but their identity places them under suspicion.

The Democrats are acting crazy thanks to racial politics — specifically, the angry racial politics of upper - middle - class white liberals.

Part of this is ideology, of course, since affluent white liberals are the most extreme segment of the Democratic coalition.

According to Pew, about 35 percent of Democrats and Democratic - leaners are white «solid liberals.»

The Trump administration, for all of its obnoxiousness, seems most to have irritated affluent white liberals, rather than the nonwhite and relatively poor who are supposedly Trump's great targets.

Three emergent theological movements — black theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

There was something incredibly careless — and so ironic as to feed the worst black paranoia — about both the white radicals» celebration of and the liberals» acceptance of this pathological behavior.

Johnson, out of his own liberal roots, spoke boldly of building the Great Society, but the streets of this land were increasingly unsafe even for the president, who more and more found himself to be a virtual prisoner in the White House.

The problem with liberals is that they like to make simple black and white questions into vast - sea - of - gray things, complicating very simple points.

Over the years, Lincoln has been portrayed as both a «bookish don» and a «horny - handed son of toil»; he's been claimed by liberals and conservatives, integrationists and white supremacists, Unitarians and atheists.

In a political crucible in which preferential treatment and race - based laws are advocated by the liberal establishment, a National Association for the Advancement of White People can look like an equal opportunity party.

This book presents itself as a «manifesto» for an American future of «liberal nationalism» that will succeed the various phases in which a «white overclass» has manipulated economic and political power in its own interests.

The newer Religious Alliance Against Pornography, composed of both liberals and conservatives, sponsored a White House Conference last fall and has begun organizing local groups around the country.

Quite a number of white male theologians, while not buying into the more secular demands of liberation, still want to retain the liberal starting point of theology developed by Friedrich Schleiermacher as they seek to tie into the liberation process.

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

In her rage, this ever so hip baby boomer liberal invokes white supremacy itself to annihilate Thomas — in reaction to her sense of being annihilated by him.

Despair at King's murder was the response of many blacks and some white liberals, but others were not distressed, and most did not care.

The White House seems to have assuaged the concerns of liberal and moderate religious voices, particularly Catholics, who complained that the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate on contraceptive coverage violated religious freedom of conscience.

I agree with you 1000 % on both the horror of the rise of white supremacy (normalization of it anyway) fomented by the Trump campaign and the flagrant misogyny, often on the part of «liberals» regarding Hillary Clinton's run.

With liberal spoonfuls of Garden Fresh Gourmet white bean hummus, Jack's special salsa, and handfuls of crushed blue corn tortilla chips.

Take the worst possible stereotypes of these 4 words: white, liberal, millennial, actress.

From liberal / progressives, I'm hearing a powerful fear that the New Yorker is feeding into a narrative that hurts Obama, which to me is a clear result of 2000 and 2004 — both years in which Democrats feel as though the White House was snatched from their grasp unfairly and / or inexplicably.