"Woke" White Liberals Are The Real White Supremacists
The soft bigotry of low expectations is white supremacy defined.
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According to Savannah Edwards, a New Orleans resident, what "woke" white liberals don't understand is that THEY are the ones pushing white supremacist ideology.
In a viral TikTok video published Saturday, Edwards demonstrated this by analyzing the rhetoric of one specific "woke" white liberal, Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano.
In a TikTok video of her own published a day earlier, Milano had implored her audience to imagine what it's like being black. But in doing so, she'd fed into a number of stereotypes about black people that Edwards found extraordinarily offensive.
To better understand Edwards' rebuttal, first watch Milano's TikTok below:
"For those of us who are not black men, imagine watching the news and seeing how people who look like you are portrayed. Imagine seeing men who look like you executed by police, arrested in impossibly high numbers and seeing the entire political system of our nation fighting to keep it that way," she said.
"Think about really what effect that would have on you and how you felt about this country and your participation in its institutions. It's a centuries-old problem, but we can't be centuries-old in the solution. We need to fix it now. We need to stop the efforts to make it harder for people of color to vote. We need to fix what's broken in America."
As of Sunday morning, the actress's video had about 6,500 likes.
Now watch Edwards' rebuttal below:
"Imagine being a black man and being told by some white lady with a microphone that you and the criminal on TV are one and the same because you look alike. Imagine being told by society that white people can be all they can be, but you as a black man, the content of your character is completely irrelevant, you are the color of your skin, and that is all you'll ever be," she said.
"Imagine being told that you can't figure out how to vote because of the color of your skin. Socioeconomics affects everybody, but apparently you're not as smart as the poorest white person."
She then turned her attention specifically to Milano.
"Lady, I don't want to hate you. I'm a 90s kid. I grew up with you, so I know you're very talented. I understand your heart is in the right place, but you are everything you preach against. You're not helping. You're making things worse. You're causing more division. You're causing more fear."
"Statistically speaking, I'm more likely to be shot and killed by my black, elderly neighbor across the street than the cop who patrols my neighborhood. Statistically speaking, homicide by cop is very rare, but people like you find power in fear, so you keep it front-page news. You don't have to be a white supremacist. You can be better."
Edwards' video had 84,000 likes as of Sunday.
Her point, which is one that's also been made by a number of non-woke conservatives, moderates and genuine liberals, is that the "woke" presumption that black people need white people's help to survive and thrive is itself the epitome of white supremacy.
It's a particularly pernicious form of white supremacy known as the soft bigotry of low expectations, and sadly, it's fairly ubiquitous and widely tolerated among the far left.
Case in point:
This bigotry has "woke" white liberals convinced that all blacks suffer from some debilitating condition that prevents them from achieving the same level of intellectual and career success as everybody else.
Thus, the success of blacks hinges on "woke" white liberals swooping down from the sky like Superman and saving them from the malicious evils of white supremacy. The only problem is that the ones trying to do the swooping are the real white supremacists.
They of course don't see it that way. In their minds, they're saviors -- white saviors, if you will -- assigned by God to save the black race from something, anything.
Responding to one example of the white savior complex in action back in 2019, non-white journalist Andy Ngo noted that it's a "patronizing, pitiful and pathetic" mindset.
But it's also deeply bigoted. Are not black people self-actualizing human beings with drive and willpower? Are black people not vested with the same general abilities and opportunities as everybody else? You wouldn't think so if you were to listen to people like Milano.
Like numerous other far-left Democrats, including many in Congress, Milano thinks she's a white savior, yet what she's preaching -- that black people are too backwards and stupid to be treated like everybody else -- is the type of bigoted nonsense you'd likely find in the Ku Klux Klan's handbook.
The tragic irony of all this is that in the minds of "woke" white liberals like Milano, black people like Edwards who speak out against their soft bigotry are the real white supremacists …