re: What is the psychology behind the "white self hate" movement?

I think policies related to criminal justice, housing policy, education, and healthcare systems, probably all disproportionately disadvantage marginalized racial groups. E.g. performative acts of guilt or symbolic gestures (e.g., apologies, diversity training) can sideline discussions about the real problems and solutions of mass incarceration, etc.

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That's fine, then you're not who I mean.

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So who is a repressor? Who are they repressing and how are they doing it?

It’s all curtural Marxist social engineering that’s been in place for a long time and is bearing a lot of fruit.

This is why I think the Churchill/WW2 narrative discussion is important, because I think it is the source of this kind of poison. The post war consensus mindset is what set this social engineering off.

Basically right wing thought was seen as too dangerous to exist, and white European heritage people too dangerous to be allowed to form collective identities and work towards ethnic self interests. There are thousands of little things taught to us from birth that accumulates into this believe that whites looking out for whites is a terrible thing, and that is obviously unnatural if you look at any other group as an example.

I don’t think this kind of brainwashing worked as well on people in the south (obvious to everyone), but what isn’t obvious is why this is. Until recently, everywhere in the country other than the south was overwhelmingly white, and people didn’t really have race in the forefront of their identities, so it made them easy targets as blank slates to indoctrinate. In most of the south, especially where I’m from, it is apparent as soon as you’re old enough to observe the world that there are black people and there are white people, and it has an impact at a fundamental level of how you see the world, and it’s very hard to lie to a white southerner as it pertains to his race being responsible for any wider problems.

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Read Mushroom1968's response to me, reflect, and post back.

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I'm not one of your nurses. You can answer or not.

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Much of what we see white progressives express about “ being white” is rooted in misplaced sexual submission. It’s a feminized way of viewing oneself, as open to others and willing to allow them the top position . Normal testosterone levels solve this. Men who Fukc do not apologize for being white. Men who get fricked do.

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Ok............ Let's go with that!

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Ok, Mushroom1968's response is a repressor response.

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But how is he repressing people? Not by posting on TD. He just said something you disagree with.

What are the specifics of this repression and who is responsible for it?

Some white people feel guilt for actions of those in the past so they want to try to cleanse their feelings of guilt through actions intended to enable black people as though they can’t take care of themselves.

They patronize black people as though they’re somehow handicapped.

Its weakness, plain and simple.

The current climate of DEI comes from the belief that, since meritocracy seemed to only benefit a certain majority, that it was flawed and therefore racist etc.

This leads into the other point that when certain institutions are pressured to explain why there are so many whites and asians either employed in positions of power or at prestigious universities, if they answer because they are the most qualified or they met the entrance criteria, they would sound like the racists they were pointed out to be.

But instead of sticking to the fact that a meritocracy based system benefits the overall betterment of the overall population, they chose to give in to the demands of race hustlers because they knew it could also bring in more money.

I can tell you now that a majority of corporations doing this are doing it for one thing, money and brand exposure.

TLDR Version: White guilt is promoted by wealthy elites that feel no impact from their decisions, and by weak white individuals that have been made to think their entire existence is not something to celebrate, but to loathe

Mostly fake like said before.

I don't think the theory claims to explain 100% of individuals. It's trying to get at the nature of the psychology underlying American discourse around race in broad generalities and to apply to many but not all individuals.