Is it not virtue signaling when you tell us about your black friend? Are you not telling us how moral you are when you tell us about how you see black people at the same level as yourself?
Unlike you, I was not trying to virtue signal.
My intention, as I pointed to before, was to point out how silly James is when he contests that minorities, for some reason, have a harder time getting IDs then whites. That was the point of the story, to make a joke at James expense, and to that end, James has still not provided anything other then anecdotal evidence to prove his points.
Furthermore, the second part of your critique was not me virtue signaling again; to be honest I dont give a rat's ass about virtue signaling to some progressive. It was pointing out the, at best, ignorant philosophy that minorities need White Saviors to help them, when in fact they do not.
All they need is to be given agency, equal protection under the law, and left alone, and they will succeed, as has every other race in this country, including those from the West Indies. The problem with White Saviors though is that they are more concerned with what other White Saviors think about them and therefore set up a narrative that minorities are a victim class in order to virtue signal.
In doing so, they not only trick a large portion of minorities that they are victims, of which false victimhood is a self-fullfiling prophecy, but also put in place emotional knee-jerk policies that often make things worse, like public housing. Of course, just like all White Saviors, they can retreat back to their safe suburbs and not feel the effects of their bad policies, while those of us living in the city do.
We are now seeing a new creation of really bad policy by White Saviors through the thorough demoralization of police. This is not to defend that recent Jack Ass who got convicted, but he is being used as an example of what all police are, and police are leaving the cities, en mass, or just not signing up. Crime will inevitably go up in the coming years, and already has. Homicide in major cities is up 30+% year over year. But no worries for those White Savior, since they do not live in cities.
And this why I have such contempt for people like this. They swoop in and act like they actually know what they are talking about when in fact they have no idea what city life, in a big city, not Austin where you could piss over it if you had to go bad enough, is like. They come in, protest, rally enough of the population to get attention while ignoring what the majority wants, get bad policy in place and leave without any expense for themselves.
“The white [savior] is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
