{"id":430,"date":"2017-02-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2017-02-20T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:28:48","slug":"you-might-be-a-diversity-redneck-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"You Might Be A Diversity Redneck If\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Reid Fitzsimons<\/p>\n

If you get confused over what you\u2019re supposed to believe because the people who make the rules about diversity keep changing them<\/p>\n

If you are offended by any non-Mexican wearing a sombrero because of cultural appropriation, though you\u2019re not sure if other Hispanics also wear sombreros and how to differentiate them from Mexicans<\/p>\n

If everyday you curse your fate for not having homosexual, or at least bisexual, tendencies<\/p>\n

If you prominently display the photo of you and that black bartender at the resort in Jamaica from last year and tell people you and him became good friends<\/p>\n

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If you celebrate Kwanza, or at least tell people you do<\/p>\n

If your second favorite holiday after Kwanza is Cinco de Mayo, though you can never really remember the significance of it besides lots of Mexican flag waving. Nevertheless, you are proud of your social justice flag collection including the Rainbow flag the pretty one with \u201cCo-Exist\u201d written on it<\/p>\n

If you think you have fully experienced culturally diversity because on your cruise earlier this year you did the optional half-day side trip to the local market<\/p>\n

If you told people who didn\u2019t go to the local market what an exciting mind-opening experience you had<\/p>\n

If, during your half-day excursion to the local market, people seemed nice so you concluded \u201ctheir culture is nice\u201d<\/p>\n

If you later tell your friends that the delicacy you tried at the local market on your vacation was delicious (or delicioso if it was in a Hispanic location) when you actually thought it was disgusting and you had massive diarrhea that night and crapped the sheets<\/p>\n

If you become frustrated and annoyed when oppressed minorities don\u2019t agree with your belief that they need to be protected, such as when 90% of American Indians have no problem with the name Washington Redskins<\/p>\n

If you thought Barack Obama and\/or Hillary Clinton were absolutely fabulous back when they opposed homosexual marriage but now think anyone who opposes it is a homophobic Nazi bigot<\/p>\n

If you were livid with disgust when you learned of the crude female genitalia remark Trump made but you count your progressive blessings that smart phones and the like weren\u2019t around during your Ivy League school days<\/p>\n

If you become confused and ashamed because sometimes personal observation and experience seems to confirm cultural stereotypes, such as Asian Indians operating an exceptionally large numbers of hotels<\/p>\n

If you feel guilty doing things that propagate White Privilege such as reading to your kids, but you assuage your guilt by always pointing out that the little girls or boys in the stories could identify themselves as little boys or girls if they wanted<\/p>\n

If you still shudder when you think of the time you blurted out \u201call lives matter\u201d at the Public Radio wine-tasting fund-raiser, then ran back home and put up a \u201cblack lives matter\u201d sign in your yard<\/p>\n

If you celebrate and embrace customs, beliefs, and practices in other cultures that you abhor when they exist in your own culture, even if they don\u2019t<\/p>\n

If you thought Obama\u2019s 2011 \u201cMaybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat!\u201d speech on immigration was high-minded rhetoric and put those deplorable hate-filled racists in their place<\/p>\n

If you are outraged that your neighborhood and local schools are overwhelmingly white while in truth you\u2019re actually kind of relieved, and you\u2019re thankful for that polite exchange student from Africa. You know, the one with the really really black skin that makes him worth almost two regular black American kids.<\/p>\n

If you recall the time you ran into that Christian missionary who talked about providing a home for orphans in a third world country of brown-skinned people, but saw him as evil because he was against homosexual marriage. After all, you are a much more compassionate person because of your progressive beliefs and every year you give money to PBS and Planned Parenthood, and once you volunteered an afternoon at a soup kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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