Yep.
You aparently aren't allowed to say you're a proud white man or a proud straight man without being called things like Racist and Homophobic, yet you are not. Everyone excluding straight white people are allowed to take pride in who they are, but i'm not? How is taking pride in who you are, who you identify as, offensive to other people?
Because for some reason being the majority means you can't make fun of anyone and as a corollary, can't hold yourself up due to interpretations of your actions to be aggression against the minority.
I meet racist black people every day, and I'm indian. And mind you, they're racist while we're trying to help improve their standard of living by giving them food and clothes, and teaching them valuable skills.
Because most of them live in Western societies where we have freedom and stuff and all that whatnot to help their desires and dreams come true like fairy tales when actually poor people are everywhere
You shouldn't be proud of something you did not choose/earn. All of the people in that photo should shut the fuck up and do something with their lives.
This is true. I always get annoyed at people who say "I'm proud of being gay" I mean it's just a sexuality you were born with, be happy or content with that but don't say you're proud. You should say you're proud of things like curing cancer, adopting a child in need etc, something you actually earned.
Also, I don't know why it's such an unpopular opinion, isn't it true?
that is true only if you personally did that. If it were your ancestors, then you should be proud of them for doing that. So it's to do with achievement, things like "I'm proud of being gay/black etc" are redundant.
Your race has achieved things to be proud of. That means you can be proud of it. You also belong to it. That means part of that pride belongs to you. That's essentially what being proud to be a part your race means.
True, every race has had achievements. However, every person in the world has had at least one achievement as well, but that's not going to stop me from being proud of myself for achieving something. Same with ethnicity or nationality or sexuality, etc. Every ethnic group has achieved something, every nation had achieved something, every sexual orientation group has achieved something, but that doesn't mean one can't be proud of belonging to any of those groups.
I'm on about personal achievement, not achievement of anything done by people of your race. I also never claimed that other races' achievements should deter you from that.
You can't be proud of something you have nothing to do with. If you can be proud of your heritage then logically you should also be ashamed by the mistakes that members of your race have made in the past (i.e. if you're proud of being German you also need to be ashamed of the Holocaust). If you say that one shouldn't be ashamed of the crimes of their ancestors because they were not personally involved, then they should not be proud of the achievements of their ancestors because they were not personally involved.
You most certainly can be proud of things you had nothing to do with, just as you most certainly can be ashamed of things that you had nothing to do with. You don't have to be personally involved in something in order to have an opinion or feelings.
"I'm on about personal achievement"
See, this isn't really true. You're not championing personal achievement, you're saying pride by association is wrong. Those are two different things. Personal achievement is definitely something to be proud of, but that's not the only thing people can take pride in.
"You can't be proud of something you have nothing to do with."
I can't be proud of my brother for getting his doctorate?
But if you are an oppressed class of people who has been told they are worth less than others and struggles everyday against discrimination, then, yes, you should be proud! Maybe the phrasing is off but when someone says "I am proud to be _____," they usually don't mean "I am proud that my genetic coding made me this way," they mean "I am proud that I can face everyday with the world saying I am terrible, and that even with the cards stacked against me I can still push on."
That courage and strength gives them the right to be prideful.
I don't know about you but if a white man is called and treated like a racist for being proud of who he is and saying so to me that is oppression. Therefore by the reasoning you mentioned they should be able to stand up and say "I'm proud to be a white man". Instead in a bid to negate any perceived racism by a white man they are forcibly putting down the white man. That is by definition racism. Racism will not go away as long everyone is so focused on race that they don't see a bad person being bad regardless of who they are. Cause lets face it, race typically has very little to do how a person treats others but it sure can provide an excuse for bad behavior.
If we stick with that definition of what the phrase "I am proud to be _____," means, you still run into trouble for justifying that a straight white cisgender man should say that. Think, for instance about the different connotations of saying "I am proud that my grandfather (for the sake of this example he is a white male) rose above the Great Depression and found success for his family," or "I am proud to be a white man." The first one talks about rising above something; a struggle in which you identify with the hard-working protagonist. The second phrase, however, references a historically oppressive class of humans who by some accident of fate was gifted the world for many many years. While these other groups of people have been, on average, more in strife than out of strife, white men have *enjoyed* a long and oppressive reign. Of course, as sited in the grandfather example, there is always struggle, but when painting with such a broad brush you can not paint in the white man.
I feel like if you're actually being proud of your heritage and not simply trying to find some way to say racist shit you're more likely to say something like "I'm proud of my German heritage" "I'm proud to be Irish and Russian"
It's not automatically wrong for one group to get the breaks if that's the group that hustles, takes risks, sticks to the work, follows through, and creates benefits for others through their work, and another group sits around with their hands out.
You aparently aren't allowed to say you're a proud white man or a proud straight man without being called things like Racist and Homophobic, yet you are not. Everyone excluding straight white people are allowed to take pride in who they are, but i'm not? How is taking pride in who you are, who you identify as, offensive to other people?
Also, I don't know why it's such an unpopular opinion, isn't it true?
What definition of redundant are you using? Why would the achievements of other races prevent you from being proud of your own?
See, this isn't really true. You're not championing personal achievement, you're saying pride by association is wrong. Those are two different things. Personal achievement is definitely something to be proud of, but that's not the only thing people can take pride in.
"You can't be proud of something you have nothing to do with."
I can't be proud of my brother for getting his doctorate?
That courage and strength gives them the right to be prideful.