That's the single most racist thing I've read in quite a long time, although admittedly I haven't been following the Zimmerman trial. Black people (and, implied, anyone who isn't a white straight man) can't make informed value judgements? Seriously? I assume this person is trying to be progressive by not calling an oppressed minority scum, which I guess is nice, but their argument for why is the most anti-social-justice reasoning ever. Denying a group of people the ability to have moral responsibility, for their ethnicity or gender or sexuality, in the name of social justice, is fucked up in more ways than I can count.
And I can count to a lot! I'm pretty good at math
Actually, and I only know this due to so much digging through this shit, they're saying they lack "cultural capital", or in other words, they're not powerful enough. Basically, they're too oppressed to be oppressors.
They are also saying they can't make informed value judgements. Either value judgement means a completely different thing in their jargon, or they are straight-up saying that "[oppressed minority] can't make informed decisions about right and wrong"
I don't really have a reply to that, but the information I'm going to post is related, so I'm quoting. My father works with the mentally disabled, and is now in a management position at his job. They have him taking online college classes (that they pay for) so he will be able to move further up. I was getting food, and overheard it, and so went to check it out. They were teaching about cultural capital (with those actual words, no less), and how privileged people have their thoughts given more weight than unprivileged people. So, yeah.