As a mixed race "person of colour" (not a term I'm massively keen on) I'm not generally considered to be "in a position of relative social power", especially over a white European. But whatever.
Re:Suicide Linux (2009)
by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:07PM
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Japan, one of the world’s wealthiest nations and a successful exporter of soft power for decades now, is a “subordinate class”?
This formulation means: those in a position of relative social power, expect those in subordinate positions to accept stereotyping etc. at the expense of their own and other subordinate classes.
The humor, and this rejection of censure, is done to ritually encode and underscoring of the received power hierarchy.
In a world in which such rituals are being openly named, and confronted, it is very common for those called out to feel defensive, and act out of that defensiveness.