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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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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

I'm the whitest guy who ever whited. If I go outside in the sun for ten minutes my skin flakes off. But I still find it kind of weird to have "white" as an identity rather than just a skin color. Maybe it's because not being American I was brought up with a different set of brainworms but "white" as an identity seems to be so devoid of any meaning, outside of white supremacy, compared to actual ethnicity or culture where you have a history, a language, a shared set of myths and folklore and traditions and whatnot.

I understand that you would want to rebel if you had a white identity pushed on you and understand how problematic the concept of whiteness is but I can't help feeling that all the self-deprecating anti-white posting is just another way of expressing whiteness as an identity. It's not something that bothers me a lot but it still feels a little weird.

What would be an actually interesting discussion to have would be one about deconstructing whiteness both on a larger scale such as in societies and in organisations and on how you handle being given white privilege on a personal level.