QUESTION OF THE WEEK: if you could force every cracker on hexbear to read one book on race/racism what would it be? what about one book in general
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Saw a yt comment on an article about gangs saying something along the lines of "oh you're really only killing someone over the color of their shirt?" ( referring to different gang colors). And I can't help but think when we call out any of their racist dogwhistles it's "I didn't say that". yt people choose when to be obtuse and I hate them for it.
God I fucking hate the discourse around American gangs. So many people are sheltered. Like there's a reason people rep colors (though it's not as common as it used to be). And there's a reason you confront people wearing the wrong colors.
Whitey will understand the purpose of 18th. Century Bavarian infantry uniforms down to what the buttons looked like and what they're made of. Or they can describe why such and such English monarch had to go to war with one of his nobles. But then they can't even draw the simplest parallels to modern issues. It's deliberate dogwhistle.
Yess, Americans boogeyman so much over gangs then in the same breath miscatagorize it completely. Pisses me off. We all know it's because they don't have empathy for minorities. Specifically Black or Latin American because the way they talk about the mafia or yakuza is completely different. I could talk about this for hours.
On another forum I was part of years ago, it was a running joke that whites glorified gang culture with their outlaw country music and TV shows like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos.
Reactionaries really did not like that lmao
for people supposedly unaware of their privilege, they sure do wield it masterfully