If your argument for why you don't feel guilty for a mass wrongdoing committed by your community is because the wrongdoing wasn't committed by you, then it makes no sense to be proud of accomplishments from your community sense the accomplishments werent achieved by you either.
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We basically got the right idea about it being a system of power and behaviors that accompany it, but honestly, we are missing the mark on a very simple reframing.
Think of racism as a racialized form of NARCISSISM. Check it out...
~Narcissism- "A self-centered personality style marked by an excessive focus on oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of other people."~
Traits of narcissism in general...
Grandiosity: An exaggerated sense of superiority, talent, or importance.
Entitlement: The belief that one is special and deserves unique treatment or automatic compliance from others.
Low Empathy: A reduced ability or willingness to recognize, understand, or care about the feelings and needs of others.
Need for Validation: A constant drive to seek attention, praise, and external validation.
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Lets go through the traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder...
Grandiosity: An inflated sense of self-importance, often exaggerating achievements, talents, or status.
Fantasies of unlimited success: Preoccupation with thoughts of ideal power, brilliance, beauty, or perfect love.
Belief in unique superiority: Thinking they are uniquely "special" and can only be understood by, or associate with, other high-status people or institutions.
Excessive need for admiration: Requiring constant praise, attention, validation, and positive reinforcement from others.
Sense of entitlement: Holding unreasonable expectations of automatic compliance or especially favorable treatment.
Exploitative behavior: Taking advantage of others, using relationships or manipulation to achieve personal goals.
Lack of empathy: An inability or unwillingness to recognize, understand, or care about the feelings and needs of others.
Envy and jealousy: Feeling intensely envious of what others have, or firmly believing that everyone else is jealous of them.
Arrogance and haughtiness: Displaying snobbish, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors and attitudes toward others.
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Babies aren't born narcissists, but specific conditioning can create one over time. Racial conditions have been creating narcissists for centuries now, and these mentally impaired people occupy all positions of power.
If you want to understand racists, then understand narcissists. Study their traits, behaviors, reactions, etc., and it will all look too familiar.
(Ex. White people flinch at talking about slavery because its a narcissistic injury to their false narrative of being good white people.)
Everything about their behavior can be easily defined and understood through this framing.