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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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[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I feel like I was just talking about smth adjacent to this in c/em_poc the other day.

There’s a formulating barb in my head about how these crackers might be just as bad as 4channers in some ways about expropriating Black rage but I don’t have the words measured, hammered out, and concrete for it yet.

Y'all are super-duper loud about crackers; (In this community discussion sense, cracker == settler; as opposed to the whole of caucasity) to a point that genuinely does start feeling performative. Like yeah, I'm finna laugh when a well timed "unlimited death" jumps out there, weaponizing fear of the "gReAt RePlAcEmEnT" against crackers will always be great fun-- but some days looking at the hexbear feed, it feels like I'm watching reverse-Mantan. Like, if anti-minstrel shows were a thing, if white minstrelry based itself in performative contrition and public self-flagellation, that's what some of the bits start feeling like after a while-- ESPECIALLY when a dozen of those type posts drop in a three day span.

Kind of a goofy bit to constantly return to, and vaguely discomforting to watch continue. Like... If you're really 'one of the good ones' like you claim to be (collective, not singular; don't wear the shoe if it don't fit), then it doesn't need to be that loud all the time, feel me?