Emmanuel Acho
I was forced to listen to this racist, bigoted diatribe at work in the name of 'for all'. But it wasn't for all, it was for force-feeding the informed with the ignorance and hate of the woketivists.
Now I'm sure Emmanuel is a nice guy. He seems it. Soft spoken, educated, polite... and woefully misinformed and preaching a message of hate wrapped in a candy coating. Though I'm sure he sincerely doesn't see it that way, bigots always think someone else is the problem.
But let's go through his video and points:
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Begging the Question
This whole video is about begging the question fallacy. "Let's assume I'm right, and I'm going to teach you". That's not logic, that's an appeal to emotion or authority. Let's not assume you're right, let's look at the facts and see if you're right. Show me that you're right. But we shouldn't assume that you are right, or I need educating more than you do.
Black and White racial issues have two components, not one. He pretends that whites need to be educated on blackness, but never that blacks need to be educated one whiteness. Thus he gets to be the authority without listening, or understanding. We have to just take it. In a superstitious world, the priests and authorities tell you, and you believe -- because you don't know better. But in a scientific world, you have critical thinking (skepticism) and you need to show that what you're saying is true, not just that you feel it is true.
I don't mind him trying to enlighten us to his point of view. But I get to enlighten him and his supporters to the factual point of view and my point of view as well. Conversation is bidirectional, his dialog was patronizingly unidirectional. (Mostly the fault of the format, but also the style. In person, less produced and more interactive, he would likely be a lot better -- or prove ).
Whites are the problem
His premise: the white person is the problem (or his problem), so the white person has to be his solution. In other words, let's assume by nature of the color of your skin blacks have no responsibility, and whites have all the responsibility.
Bzzt! Wrong! You first have to show that the problem are white based. He never does that. A few anecdotes that have to go back 75 years to find an example of racism, is not compelling. Especially when there have been dozens of murders of whites by blacks in the last year, because of BLM's rhetoric (that he's defending). If you want to understand a problem, show me that blacks are killed by whites, more often than whites are killed by blacks. The numbers belie that premise, and show the opposite is true.
Why are you rioting
He starts by using a MLK quote, "rioting is the language of the unheard", in order to rationalize/justify the violence. That is fundamentally dishonest. If you listen to King in context, he said that to denounce rioting, not excuse it. So that is a lie of omission (missing context).[1]
However, we've heard the blacks for 75 years. Most of the cries weren't about racial parity, but outrage that they were getting held to the same standards as a white. Think of Rodney King and the riots there. Whites, Latinos and Asians in L.A. know that if they had driven drunk, run from cops, assaulted them, gotten tased, gotten up and kept charging them, that they would have gotten the shit beaten out of them with batons too. Blacks are sure it was because of race, because everything is about race to them. Even when it isn't.
So just because you're heard doesn't mean you're right, or that you deserve the change you're demanding -- especially when you can't agree on what that is. Or you're demanding that blacks be held to a different standard than everyone else.
So Ocho's point is that peaceful protests didn't work, and so they need to demonstrate their rage through violence. Except that's wrong. He's denying that any progress has been made since the 1950's? Do you know how insulting that is of a premise? We have black CEO's, and top stars in Hollywood, and removed segregation, and mixed marriages are widely accepted, and so on. There's been huge progress made. So the claim that the lack of progress excuses the violence, is denying reality, and an insult to reality.
So he excuses his side doing immoral acts is believing in a lie (that there's been no progress) and that they are more or as oppressed as ever, or that they're being oppressed at all. This is exactly what MLK was warning against 50 years ago. So it is a well written emotional appeal, that fundamentally denies the truth and the intent of people's words/beliefs that he's quoting.
Why do you think White Privilege Exists
Hint: it doesn't. That's not to say that being black doesn't come with certain burdens, it does. But the same with being white, asian, latino. Most of our burdens in life are not around race -- they're around things like health, wealth, drive, physical looks and abilities (or disabilities), psychological issues, education, your friends and choices, and so on. On a day-to-day basis, way, way, way down the list, is "oh yeah, and what color are you".
White Privilege flips those realities on its head. You didn't have to think of race as much, so that why you were successful. Um, no. Plenty of blacks ignore those lower priorities of race, accept that there are assholes in the world, and succeed. Just like whites. The concept of white privilege denies that the Irish were ever oppressed, that the Persians weren't taken over by the Arabs. That the Jews were slaughtered by the Germans. There is no white identity -- there's a lot of white tribes that hate each other as much as many blacks hate whites for the imagined ease with which they live their lives without blaming everything on race.
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