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hot take, feel free to dunk but holy shit, all the posts from white people being like "let's kill all the white people" is insufferable "i'm one of the good ones!" nonsense and it really should stop (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by blakeus12@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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saying something this edgy does not absolve you of bigotry

edit: for anyone stumbling into the drama, i probably should have elaborated on this post. I am not saying you can't make fun of white people not being able to eat spicy food or anything, but at some point it becomes self-flagellating. to quote comrade RedQuestionAsker:

It's good to challenge white supremacy in all of its incarnations at all time. It's certainly good to refuse to be proud to be white considering what the concept of whiteness is.

It's another thing to performatively hate yourself in a cocktail of millennial self-deprecation and liberal white guilt. It's not revolutionary, and it's probably not good for you.

that is all. comrades just know i dont hate any of you. i'm not trying to start a slapfight. i just saw this as weird performative behavior and wanted to call it out.

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[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the post that I assume this is referring to had an edgy title, but really it was just complaining about white people on reddit calling for the extermination of homeless people, as is so common on reddit-logo . Seems fine to say fuck white people in response to that.

[-] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

There have been more posts than just that one recently. Some of them more jesse-wtf than others

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only other one I'm aware of was the fuck skiing post. Which yeah I agree was a little weirder, but for reasons that goes beyond the basic sentiment of "fuck white people." Complaining about white people on this site has been common since day 1 and I don't think it should be considered controversial to complain about white people, even coming from other white people. White people should of course recognize their own complicity in the racial hierarchy, I don't believe that precludes them from complaining about white people, especially when it's a valid criticism. The complaint about how white people react to homeless people is valid, the complaint about skiing maybe not so much - but that's a difference that has nothing to do with the basic sentiment of fuck white people.