The issue isn’t the statement itself. It’s the implication that white people are being victimized that folks are taking umbrage with.
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Zoldyck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In all fairness, it’s a true statement. Just probably abused by people with certain agendas.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Its a malicious statement. It makes the reader assume that there are people that dont think being white is okay. Statements like its okay to be black or lgbtq or anything else it works because there is a lot of discrimination against them.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s definitely people that think that!
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“it’s okay to be white” was crafted by 4chan as a “triggering the libs” phrase. The entire point is to be fully racist and rally under the phrase so that the people calling you racist for genuine reasons appear to be saying that it is not in fact ok to be white. Anyone saying this phrase is a white supremacist trying to trip you into “agreeing” with them that a white genocide exists and is happening, and to convince bystanders (youtube teens at the beginning of the alt-right pipeline) that the left is against white people, ergo if you’re white you should become a Nazi.
I know this because it happened to me. “It’s ok to be white” is prime ben shapiron owns feminists with facts and logic video material.