You seem to have a habit of addressing arguments I don't make. Nowhere did I say that "the act of other people demanding to be treated as equals and demanding that humiliation and subjugation cease threatens" me. I stated that there is a movement, however unintended, towards making non-minorities feel ashamed for being who they are by telling them that they can't stand up and say "I'm proud of who I am" because doing so is putting others down.
And you seem to have trouble noting that people do not need to quote you directly to deal with your arguments.
I highlighted the portion of your statements that I found bizarre, here they are again:
Unfortunately the overall message is that as a minority it's fine to be loud and proud and make a big thing of being a minority, but if you are not, then you can't be proud of who you are, in fact if you dare to be, you are a bigot because you are somehow declaring that you are superior to everyone else.
This is neither the message of minority "pride," nor a sensible thing to say. As I said, if this is how you interpret solidarity among abused and humiliated groups, I find that sort of sad.
Whether we like it or not, if a person stands up and says "I'm proud to be a white straight male," the inference is instantly that this is an attack against coloureds, gays, and females, and the speaker is therefore a bigot. Again, whether we like it or not, the message then becomes, "you can't be proud of being a white, straight, male because if you are you're a bigot."
There are a number of things wrong with this.
First, you're once again ignoring the historical context. No one says, "i'm proud to be white," because at no point in American history was there a cultural dynamic that indicated you should feel ashamed to be white. This is not true of "coloureds", homosexuals, and females.
You're getting the relationship backwards. "Pride" movements do not exist simply to express pleasure at an identity, they are reactions to humiliation and abuse. "Whites" have never suffered such in American for being white, just like "Straights" have never been abused for being straight.
Second, are you really proud to be straight? Did you have to do a lot of work to get there? What an odd thing to take pride in.
Once again, "Gay pride" is less, "Hey, I'm awesome because I'm gay," than it is, "I'm gay and I am no longer going to be made to feel ashamed of that fact." The same is true of Black Pride and any other designation.
Thus, expressing "White" or "Straight" pride is a mostly incoherent concept. Express pride for graduating from college or doing a good job where you work or anything you actually had some input in. I don't take a lot of pride in simply being white and straight and I find it sort of odd that you do.
If you had actually bothered to read my posting, you'd have noticed that I stated that I believe everyone should be treated as a human being, nothing more, nothing less. Colour of skin, sexuality, gender, religion, these are all, or should all be, irrelevant. Except in today's society they aren't, and it's coming from both sides. Both sides need to get over themselves, those that hate anyone for being different, and those that instantly label anyone that isn't a minority (or one of the previously repressed) and who isn't filled with guilt and remorse over the actions of their forebears as a bigot.
This paragraph is totally irrelevant. I never accused you of being a bigot. For someone who complains so consistently about having his posts misread, you're arguing against no one, here.
