White woman ‘horrifically offended’ at being called white

[goldengirlz]

This story is so ridiculous. A white planning commissioner in the wealthy Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos is in hot water because she claimed white people are opposing housing development … which they absolutely are.

www.sfgate.com/politics/article/los-gatos-grapples-with-attack-on-whiteness-17796970.php

Money quote: “White racists? Most of the town is multicultural, and when you call them racist, the person making that comment is racist,” [white lady resident] said. “I am so horrifically offended. I am upset. I have been so upset for days.”

This story comes two weeks after the SFGate published another story about wealthy Bay Area towns trying to fulfill their legal obligation to build low-income housing by instead trying to dedicate all that housing for people with developmental disabilities.

www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-towns-mull-plan-to-avoid-new-housing-17767526.php

Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with building housing for people with disabilities … except when you frame it like this:

“Very low- and low-income housing is going to freak out a lot of people in this community, because we all know what it brings with it, right?” says [anti-housing white person], who adds that developmentally disabled people “don't commit crimes, they don't bring drugs, they don't bring trouble. They don't bring all the lunatic stuff that goes along with it.”

And yet the white person calling them out is a racist … against herself. These fuckers.

[erbear]

Oh hey, white fragility. I’ve been missing you 🙄

[tiramisu]

All the eyerolls at this lady.

Also, I'd like to introduce her to people I've helped with intellectual and developmental disabilities who do use substances. Mostly to remind her that infantilizing an entire population is wrong and so gross. Ableism on top of her racism, which isn't shocking.

[basilosaurus]

I'm in an area where friends call on me to give white privilege impression in meetings, silently, just by my appearance (haven't done it yet but keep getting asked). Even in places where I'm a minority it's considered privilege power to show up and wear a suit.

This lady can fucking shove it