• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Not to toot my own horn, but I think it’s time to bust out this quote again:

    White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.

    • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      This so perfectly encapsulates what I have seen/felt since the terrorist pager attacks. Like, I always knew white folks were pretty racist towards Arab peoples. But man, the last month or so has really shone a light on it. The black hole analogy is spot on. There’s so much obvious racism and hatred in comments like “well sure a bunch of innocent hospital workers lost their hands/eyes but they deserved it for helping TERRORISTS!” type stuff. But the single greatest offense you can commit towards a white person is to accuse them of racism - even if it’s not conscious. So we all have to go along with their fiction that it’s not about racism but about FIGHTING TERRORISM.

      • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        But the single greatest offense you can commit towards a white person is to accuse them of racism - even if it’s not conscious.

        You know what’s stupidly hypocritical about yanks?

        They demand others see them with the nuance that they never give.

        All Muslims and Arabs are terrorists with a backwards culture!

        All Chinese are hive minded and worry about “face” and honor.

        All Russians are drunk barbarians who want to destroy the west.

        But God forbid you call all americans racist, violent, stupid, and arrogant. Each yank will insist it’s just a few of them and that not all of them are the loathsome white supremacists that everyone can see. If you bring up the genocides they’ve committed and the fact that trump really is the face of the nation, then they’ll cry up and down about how that’s not true and that trump is just a temporary thing!

        Nothing is genuine with those people. Everyone of them is a hypocrite.

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      1 month ago

      Legend has it that this quote was written by the Chadliest of all Chads.

      Truly a poet and a scholar. order-of-lenin