It’s comments like this that make me think of the old adage: “Never wrestle with a pig because you’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
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Jackthelad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Oooh, I like that one. The Mark Twain “Never argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you on experience” is also good.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 11 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with being white
But stuff like “white pride” is unequivocally racist, and this stuff is like a gateway/dogwhistle to that.
You can say you have American pride, or French pride, or Ukrainian pride, and all of those point to specific cultural achievements or things. “White pride” doesn’t really, it has a long history of thinking that whites are better than other races.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This is a really well-put description. Having pride in the color of your skin is fucking stupid and applies to everyone.
Pride is for achievements.
Skin color is not something anyone achieved (and no, paying for aesthetics is not an achievement either).
ThePantser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]GoddessOfGouda@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How so? Can you elaborate? I am white and don’t feel as though anyone is oppressing me because of that fact.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m white and queer. There’s only one of those characteristics that gets me abused, threatened and made to feel uncomfortable and it’s not white.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So I know this isn’t going to be popular, but… I lived in Saudi Arabia at 14. White people were targeted for kidnapping and rape continually, and no, not women. Men too.
I myself was very close to having both happen multiple times and escaped by pure panic and luck. My father and I were nearly killed by police with assault rifles because they wanted a bribe from my Dad. We were forced to drive into the desert at gunpoint to a “second location.”
This was not unusual for the expats.
I also went to school in Cincinnati and had the shit beaten out of me multiple times because I was white.
Racists no matter who they are racist to are fucking gross and I’m sorry you had to go through what you did. Please don’t think your experience applies worldwide though. Being white, gay, black, brown, trans, or damn near anything in some places is fucking dangerous.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Ditto. Usually when I realise I’m white it’s because other white people are being dumb and out of touch and I’m embarrassed by them.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Caucasity is a hell of a way to wake up to the realities of race in this country
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why? Having correlary traits in common with someone doing something dumb isn’t embarrassing.
Andrew Tate doesn’t make me embarrassed to be a man, he’s just embarrassing himself (and anyone who chooses those views are doing the same). We are individuals.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You know exactly what that really means
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
In case someone is on the internet for the first time, virtually nobody says it’s not okay to be white, so saying this is pushing the idea that black and brown people asking for rights makes them the real bad guys.