Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked...
by account42 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:41AM
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Yeah, it's a clown world where racism and sexism is not only tolerated but celebrated BY THE VERY PEOPLE CLAIMING THEY ARE FOR TOLERANCE as long as it is targeted against the right people.
Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked...
by tptacek on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:49AM
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No. You can substitute "Black" for "white", because Black is a specific ethnicity, the one the United States created when it kidnapped millions of people from African and forcibly stripped them of their heritage and culture, and subsequently shared the defining experiences of Black culture, including Jim Crow and forcible segregation, which, along with being crimes against humanity, also helped fuse a distinct cultural identity. Saying "It's OK to be Black" is like saying "It's OK to be Polish" or "It's OK to be Irish", which are things you can absolutely say. Part of the legacy of slavery is that for a large number of Black people, it's difficult to declare an affiliation with their origins in Africa: we took their ethnicity from them in a way nobody took my ancestors Irishness.
It's not a privilege Black people get; it's perfectly linguistically coherent.
Imagine that saying that being whatever race or skin color is acceptable terrifies some people, people who literally would like you to be unable to state that. Of course, this isn't evenly distributed. Substitute any other color for "WHITE" and everything is hunky-dory. This is also very illuminating.
More over, one discovers that merely being in the proximity of someone who might agree with the idea that it is okay to be white makes you, in full guilt-by-association mode, also a "Nazi." From this we learn that "Nazi" is a term which no longer means anything, like how Orwell complained about the term "fascist." People who disagree are now "Nazis." This is amazing if you stop and consider it. It is as if someone who fails to engage in a ton of logical fallacies has become The Enemy, "the worst" or a "garbage person." This, from people who preach against dehumanization.
I have to trawl what are apparently the disturbing depths of the internet, venturing into a website originally used to post memes about how liking Bridget isn't gay, to discover these things.
One can hardly habeeb it.