Comments by "yapdog" (@yapdog) on "Racists Take a DNA Test" video.

Some do say that. You know this... right? 🤨
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@Unclenose But do you understand why it's less accepted the other way around? That's a serious question, I'm not accusing you of anything. I just really want to know if you understand the context. Do you understand it?
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@oleksandrbyelyenko435 You bring up a good point. Too many people think everyone else should just automagically understand their issue. It's like with pronouns. Personally, I'm like "they? them? WTF???" I didn't really get it, but when someone shares with me their personal perspective, it's understandable... even if I still can't personally relate. Anyway, thanx for being so open-minded and willing to communicate, fella. If more people were like you (on all sides), we could fix all these @#$%^& problems we face today 👍
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@peterfrance702 I was with you until your last line. 😞 Can you see how you, too, could be considered as playing victim? How can we have a valuable discussion if we resort to denigration and outrage?
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@oleksandrbyelyenko435 I can appreciate and understand your frustration. Still, context is important. Case in point: I'm a Black man. An African American descended from the enslaved, to be exact. So, both of my parents are Black... yet my skin is light. I have ~10% of European DNA from those who enslaved and raped my ancestors. Now.... Without feeling like I'm blaming you for something that you didn't do, let me ask you honestly, person-to-person: Can you at least relate to how I might feel about that? Even just a little?
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@@agent3976 You didn't state popularity as a parameter. But in that context, you seem worldly enough to understand the rejection of colonization. Unfortunately, the descendants of the colonizers (i.e. white people) get demonized when it's not even their fault. However, some do revel in their ill-gotten gains (read the the other replies to your comment); white is not a race but a social class, presumed upper. And that's why the people in this video are not maligned for saying what they're saying... however misguided and insensitive.
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@peterfrance702 It's possible to construe this right here as victimhood: "How am I playing the victim? You make a special case out of a possible white ancestor when...." You obviously feel slighted in some way by my simply sharing facts of my own life with someone. I never attacked the person I was communicate with, nor had I ever said they should pity me as some kind of victim. I just tried to help him understand where some people might be coming from. He and I had a great back-and-forth about it, and I picked up some new perspectives from him. Yet, somehow, that angered you, as indicated by your previous line: "Sick of this victimhood BS." Ask yourself this: Had I wronged you? Had I come off as angry? Had I said anything that would lead you to believe that I blamed you or any other person in these comments? Obviously I had not, so why have you directed your anger toward me, lobbing charges of victimhood? For that matter, why are you even angry in the first place? Do you even know why? That's not intended as some kind of attack, mind you. I just think that we're made to feel that we should be perpetually angry by/for things others have done and created. To be clear, no person today is responsible for slavery, and should never be made to feel as such. In fact, I feel that white people tend to be harmed just as much today by the sins of others in the past. It seems to be part of what drives white anger, something that lies beneath within fundamentally good people, something that recognizes those sins but just don't want to be judged by them. And, quite frankly, you shouldn't be. The problem is that most don't seem to realize it... regardless of race.
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@doroza2lol Yeah, you speak like someone who just dropped down on Earth and has no idea about what colonialism, plunder, disenfranchisement, and institutionalized racism are and their lasting effects... including the unfair legacy that whites have to tussle with because of those sins they didn't even commit. So, there's no fruitful discussion that you and I can have. Thank you for taking the time to reply, tho. I mean that.
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@nikobellik8491 You said: "You shouldn't generalize people like you are." Uuuh... calling all light skinned folks "white" is the very absolute height of generalization.🤨 You're inadvertently "whitewashing" the identities of the peoples you're trying to connect. In any case, in this country, Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants weren't considered white back in the day. Yet today they are. What's different? You can't say it's science; the science says that race is a social construct. However, societal changes (e.g. the social justice) movement, caused a shift. And so, white is a societal class designation, not a race. Having said that, I get where you're coming from; everything you find online will tell you that white is a racial group, even Wikipedia. But most haven't thought deeply enough about that term and how damaging it is to the people it is intended to classify. Thank you for the discussion 👍
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