My gf seems to be bothered that I am 'white and privileged'.
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You should find a TV producer and propose a reality show starring yourselves.
White privilege is a false narrative. I’m not buying it.
I actually was on a reality show some years back. There’s nothing real about it!
I don’t deny the existence of “white privilege.”
I deny that it applies to all white people.
It bothers me because it is assumed that I am a certain way because I am white—that I, as a white person, bear some sort of responsibility for the terrible things that happened to non-white people throughout history.
Most Jews have moved on from the Holocaust. We have to move on from history.
Yet, we have to seek to prevent things like the Holocaust, the slave trade, the Native American Genocide, etc., from occurring in the future. And we have to be adamant, and absolute, that we acknowledge the monstrosities which have occurred throughput history.
I wish Donald Trump would fall off the face of the Earth.
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Fine. I'm not buying what Mr. Trump has to sell.
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Since you and your g/f are both autistic then that may give you a hint one reason she is drawn to you. It also may be the source of the issue. Both of you seem hyper-focused (as sweetleaf correctly pointed out) on this which is probably not healthy.
What exactly are your plans ironpony? do you see the two of you staying together for a long time? is there enough in the relationship physically/mentally for the both of you to stay together? If the answer is yes then both of you (not just you) need to put some effort in compromising on your beliefs. In marriage or in a long-term defacto relationship it's quite possible for two people to have diagonally opposing views on some issues but it requires work to be tolerant of one another's beliefs/attitudes.
If on the other hand this is an intractible issue that the two of you can't agree on then it might be a portent of things to come.
The third option is if you really like her enough and she's not willing to budge then you could just suppress your own beliefs/attitudes in order to keep her happy. Tell her you are sorry and you will work on it because you only want to keep her happy. But this is entirely up to you. She does sound like a nice girl and to be honest a 1 in a 1000 type.
Oh well she is hyperfocused for sure, not that this is an insult, I kind of like that about her on a lot of things, and I think it's cute.
I can see us being in a long term relationship so far. I like everything else about her, it's just she is really touchy about these issues, and I hope she can agree to disagree. I can compromise to an extent, but I don't think I can change my opinions and believes fully. So as long as she can agree to disagree to an extent.
When it comes to your patience with the women in your life, you're an angel compared to me! I adopted a rule where I permanently kick people out of my life the minute they disagree with my politics. In 2020 alone, I eliminated 6 friends for their liberal Covid-worshipping beliefs. And mind you, I used to vote Democrat!
Keep her as a friend if you wish, but don't stay in a relationship with that woman. Find someone conservative instead.
Oh but why would she worship the covid virus? Also, we are Canadian so would the 2024 American election hit her that much? As for conservative women, well in my experience they are too I guess you could say 'girly-girl-ish, or too 'ladylike', where as I one thing I really like about my gf is how she is not too feminine if that makes sense?
I mean I don't have to have someone who is too liberal either perhaps, but maybe neither democrat or conservative, rather than conservative? And this is just my experience but usually the more conservative a woman is, the more she is not as good in bed, but maybe that's TMI. Just trying to say why I am not as attracted to conservative.
(I edited my post after I remembered you weren't American.
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Maybe the 2024 US presidential election won't affect you, even if Big Bad Orange Man wins. But the next Canadian prime minister election certainly will. Your girlfriend will retaliate against you very hard if you vote for a conservative/right-wing candidate. As for worshipping the Covid virus, it's a Democrat/liberal thing; they all worship it. It's basically a religion for them.
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Oh okay. Well I guess as for the Canadian election I will have to cross that bridge when I come to it. I am not sure who she would vote for depending on who the other candidates are. When you say they worship the virus, do you mean they love how the virus is spreading around or hate it?
Maybe the 2024 US presidential election won't affect you, even if Big Bad Orange Man wins. But the next Canadian prime minister election certainly will. Your girlfriend will retaliate against you very hard if you vote for a conservative/right-wing candidate. As for worshipping the Covid virus, it's a Democrat/liberal thing; they all worship it. It's basically a religion for them.
Oh okay. Maybe I am generalizing, but conservative has it's flaws too, but maybe in the middle or someone who subscribes to neither side would be better?
As Mikhail Gorbachev once said, "trust, but verify". (This is often erroneously attributed to Ronald Reagan.) That is, take your girlfriend's word at face value, but don't take it as gospel. Find out where she heard them and from who, and search her words on DuckDuckGo. Not Google! The liberal media pretty much owns it now, thanks to George Soros's money..
Just out curiosity is she close to her native heritage? or is she more an 'Elizabeth Warren" type in that she is 1/100 or 1/1000 indigenous and has kind of adopted the identity?
