Kevin Kelly
1 min readApr 12, 2022

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This article is very deeply flawed. I could name several examples of how, but particularly there’s the widespread false idea that there’s a special status that white people in general want protected for themselves. Anyone who knows white Americans in general knows that this is, by far, not the case.

Perhaps the reason that white Americans are feeling more oppressed is because of not only the widespread ill sentiment against them as a group, but also because of increasing race-based practices against them in the name of equity which, yes, includes affirmative action. Affirmative action, by the way, is harmful towards non-whites as well. It’s a form of soft racism against them. It is that type of systemic racism which is endemic in this country, not the hard type that so-called anti-racists speak of. Disparities in hiring and criminal sentencing are a matter of interpersonal, not systemic, racism.

I will unapologetically object to any unjust treatment against me on account of my race, as I would for any non-white person. Labeling it complaining, whining, white tears or white fragility will not cause me to let my guard down.

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Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly

Written by Kevin Kelly

Poetry & opinion writer, nature lover and Upstate New Yorker.

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