I gotta log off so my response was half-baked. Here's the link if you wanna dunk: https://hexbear.net/comment/3876915
I am white so I hereby officially give every hexbear user permission to use the words cracker, mayo and gammon, as well as to say anything you want about white people. If questioned about it please refer them back to this post where I am officially giving you the mayo-pass.
White people really do think that racism is just interpersonal dislike of other cultures and not some giant labyrinth of exploitation and colonialism. Every time it comes up shit just blows my mind.
One problem is everyone still uses it that way, even people who have to constantly explain what systemic means will see some raging chud and say "that fucking racist guy"
@DoiDoi It’s exactly how it was taught to them. “Thinking other races aren’t as good as yours,” legitimizing both race & false equivalency in a breath, was explicitly taught in every formal setting basically through college for me. Often no countermessaging until teens or later, though I hope (& think the right wing panic about perhaps credits) the internet offers some hope that they’ll get more stories than the “official” status-quo-serving properly-racist one at younger ages.
Racism was invented by Trotsky to silence white people from being racist.
hexbear called me a KKKracker and it made me scream and fucking scream
Lemmygrad user using Hexbear emotes. Now that's commitment.
I'm still new to lemmy. I'm a reddit migrant.
I joined in the first wave, and I was pleased to see a large leftist presence here. It was a bit refreshing, compared to the constant lib shit (or outright conservative takes) that was the norm on reddit.
Then the second wave of migrants hit and with it came ALL of the reactionaries. Suddenly Ukraine war news was hitting the front of my all page every day, with all of the usual, very liberal arguments in support of continuing the war indefinitely. Anyone to the left of bernie Sanders was being heavily downvoted, and all of the new libs were complaining about "Freedom of speech" not being enough here because of the early, big defederations that happened, while simultaneously demanding mods of their instances deliberately silence anyone to the left of their neolib brains.
It's kind of infuriating. The word "tankie" has been eroded just like the word "woke" was by the right. It used to mean authoritarian leftist, now it's being used to mean "anyone who doesn't support US imperialist dogma uncritically."
I liked lemmy more when it wasn't full of libs.
The word “tankie” has been eroded just like the word “woke” was by the right.
And then they sit there and wonder why I'll gleefully smear them with the same brand of paint as a garden variety magat. Just a different hue.
Whiteness is an arbitrary construct used to exclude outgroups and set legislation that justified their brutalization of exploitation.
At certain points in history, Slavic people, Italian people, Irish people, and Jews were considered non-white.
It's a false equivalence to compare individuals being anti-white to the recent forms of racism (separate schools and water fountains) or ongoing forms of racism (redlining, media narratives around looting, policing).
be morally unimpeachable!
What the fuck would this even look like to this liberal? Harry Potter?
Imagine if
PEAK LIBERALISM! EXTREME COGITOHAZARD!
Hermionie Granger would grow up to be Ruth Bader Ginsburgh and would reveal that Donald Trump's patronus is a big, orange orang utan and that would get him fired!
Peaker liberalism (CW: homophobia):
spoiler
The patronus is his gay sex romance homoerotic shameful secret lover, Putin.
"Racism" against white people: Getting called a snow roach by Black Twitter
Racism against Black people: Getting murdered by pigs for pulling out their wallet
Ledditor: They're the same picture.
Yeah that piece of shit is just a white nationalist
Easiest solution to anti-white "racism" is to stop identifying with whiteness, it's not a real ethno-cultural identity centered around language or kinship, instead it's an inherently supremacist construct wedded to social exclusion and domination
If you identify with that shit you are a racist
