About 10 days ago, I began one of these posts with the comment, ‘Watching the above video, you might decide that America as a country has totally lost the plot.’
Hmmm. I think I need to use that comment again. Let’s analyse this video above. I want you to ask yourself the following 10 questions.
- Do you think this man (with the camera) really cares about racial equality?
- Do you think the woman does?
- What does the man care about?
- Does the man make clear his political views?
- Should the woman have bowed down?
- Is any apology meaningful if it is forced?
- What does the man actually want?
- Do you think his actions improve anything?
- How do you feel about these people involved?
- Is this video real, or was it staged?
The man with the camera appears to be white [we only see his hand, and only at the beginning]. It is interesting that in the comments section to this video (which I dowloaded from youtube), people unanimously reveal a total disgust at what they see, regarding it as actually anti-white racism of the worst sort. Some of these comments come from people claiming to be black, stating the obvious fact: that this is not what they want or expect white people to do.
Let me answer the questions as I see it.
[Question 10]: The video seems real enough to me, but [1] the man doesn’t care about anything except himself. [2] The woman is merely doing what is required to avoid a confrontation. [3] The man is showing narcissism, and only cares about signalling his virtue. [4] He admits he is an enemy to the current president, Donald Trump, indicating he has a strong political motive. [5] The woman should never have bowed, but … see [2]. [6] The apology is meaningless. [7] The man wants to exercise power over others, and can safely hide in the apparent virtue of what he is doing. [8] His actions do not improve anything; they only breed resentment and disgust. [9] I feel what almost everyone (of whatever skin colour) mentioned in the comments section to this video: a cringing distaste for both participants: to the man, for such a vulgar act of street intimation, and to the woman, for lowering herself in this way.
Ask yourself one last question: what normal person confronts a stranger on the street with a camera, and demands that this person bow and apologise for their skin colour/’white priviledge’? Think again about that ‘losing the plot’ opening to this post.
Here are some of the words used in this post.
- to lose the plot
- unanimous
- disgust
- virtue
- narcissism
- apparent
- resentment
- to be vulgar
- to cringe
- intimidation
- to confront