we're all racists
― my two percent's worth (k3vin k.), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean that we are not colorblind, or just blind! We see differences in culure, personality and physical characteristics. To pretend that we don't is silly, naive, whatever. That doesn't mean that you don't distinguish between the structural and the behavioral roots of problems, that you become a bigot, that you value the dominant culture more, that you don't put a check to predispositions to prejudice, or that you don't reason with yourself about matters of race. You DO have to reason with yourself about race. You aren't born knowing what you need to know about it, whether you're white or not.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ I'm assuming this is not controversial. Tell me if it is.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
culure = culture, obv
http://religionandterror.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/blacks-vs-whites-after-civil-war.jpg
― goole, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
So far the only funny one has been the MJ "Thriller" gif.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Faygo a little funny. White and black dude a teensy bit.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
What exactly is a white person?
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't mean to sound baiting, or like a troll. But like, when people talk about 'white people,' esp in the US, don't they tend to mean someone of light complexion whose family immigrated here more than X number of years ago? Because recent immigrants don't fit into the rubric easily (and there's a whole history of ethnic groups BECOMING white over time...)
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
can we talk about music in here
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
no "I'm white btw" yet?
― he takes the account of everything in the universe into consideration (dan m), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
A bit obvious to deconstruct "white" like that, unless you actually want to know what it is.
A "female friend" weighs in: "And sometimes it does a disservice to frank acknowledgement of sociocultural inequity to focus on exceptions-i tended to be one w/regard to gender but it would be disingenuous to equate my exceptionality with any sort of norm."
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Somewhat similar to this is men who disparage "men" usually from a feminist perspective - eg., talking about how "men" should step aside and let women run things, seeing how men have managed to thoroughly screw up the planet, and so on. This seems a little more serious to me than the racial version, which is usually played for laughs, since you could make a case from a biological perspective that men are more prone to violence or other undesirable behavior.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I find 'black' and 'white' increasingly problematic. Black people are brown and white people vary from pale yellow(ish) to my own lovely shade of pink and the constructs of 'white' and 'black' as cultures (aside from mere pigmentation) are ones that I find increasingly annoying whatever their historical and indentific realities so I try not to diss 'white people' and save my ammo for specific assholes.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/general_james_longstreet_tshirt-p235706652153917715t5e4_400.jpg
― goole, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
'black' and 'white' might be made up but that doesn't mean they are not real
anyway, james longstreet zazzle tshirt, yall
― goole, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm just curious what this thread is about. I assume it's not about White Anglo-Saxon Protestants disparaging the *wrong* (Jewish? Catholic?) kinds of whites. It really means something closer to "hipsters disparaging their parents" right?
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
basically "liberal guilt" vs "redneck humor"
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Liking The Wire - white
Black people are brown and white people vary from pale yellow(ish) to my own lovely shade of pink
This is bordering on truism. The rest of that I basically agree with, although it's not functional if you want to talk about "white culture" and "black culture."
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is about white guilt.
― jaymc, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
black people can also be yellow or pink btw
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"hipsters disparaging their parents" right?
Yeah.
&xxpost yeah
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, I can introduce to cousins of mine who have two African-American parents who have natural red hair and green eyes
Does anyone remember an article from around the 4th season of the Wire about an academic who was watching the show with kids living in that community? (Ie: Stfu wrt liking the wire = white.)
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost We know this stuff.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
then act like it
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Friday, April 23, 2010 11:39 AM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark
a/s/l?
― goole, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I can introduce to cousins of mine who have two African-American parents who have natural red hair and green eyes
Espcially down with this if they are girls and cute.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha goole. Beat me to it.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I said that for lulz, Mordy. Oh, and it's true.
naw jk
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
(true)
social constructivists - white
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Well one is actually my mom's cousin and is 70. The other is 34 and had a baby with one of the dudes from Bone Thugs and Harmony.
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, if I disparage white people, it's usually those parts of my family who are white, Protestant Christian, racist (and not as good at hiding it as they like to think), jingoist, eat shitty food, have an annoying chip on their shoulder about me thinking this of them, and with whom I can have neither a fun time nor a good conversation and what I hate about them most is their assumption that, since I'm a white American male, I will automatically share their stupid prejudices.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i notched white on my census form, but i was kinda bummed. wanted to list as Jewish, but i guess it's for the best that there isn't such a choice (lul jews + lists). Besides, from experience (doing 20th century census analysis for classwork) i'm sure future scholars won't have any trouble figuring out that m0rd3ch4i s41n3f13ld was jewish.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
How, Dan? Act like it how? That's some condescending bullshit to presume that people don't have eyes, or some ilxor's never heard of Wallace Thurman.
Because recent immigrants don't fit into the rubric easily (and there's a whole history of ethnic groups BECOMING white over time...)
Sorry, Mordy, I missed this. Hispanics coming to US, used to be "white," now "hispanic," blah blah. Yeah.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
bam for someone who is eager to call ppl out for being "obvious" u are saying some freshman seminar-level shit up in this
― max, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^ basically my point; your argument at the moment is basically "I hate generalities except when they are mine"
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Be more specific, max, because you guys say that pretty frequently.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
bamcquern = Vision?
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess when I do this I'm basically just annoyed at the self-satisfied mediocrity of white middle-class identity.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Talk about the generality, then. And which ones am I hating on (for their being generalities)? I mean, do you disagree because I'm WRONG or because I'm OBVIOUS? Or both? And if both, you sort that out for me.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
mordy asks "what does white mean" in this instance which is uhhhh a pretty relevant question and youre all "pretty obvious to do that" when like 10 posts prior you were all "were all racist man" which is... true on some insanely broad level? i guess? but not exactly a truth bomb into our brains
― max, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
What wrong with saying obvious things? You don't get extra points for contrarian obtuse bullshit.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont even "disagree" with you because i cant even figure out what youre SAYING except that like... there is racism
― max, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry to bring this up again but before yall go any further into being annoyed at the self-satisfied mediocrity of white middle-class identity i just wanna make sure you've signed the dream act petition first kthx :)
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't have a problem with Mordy's post when I figured out he was being sincere. No, wait, I hedged in my orig. response to him, in case he was being sincere. But in case he intended to deconstruct "white," I thought that was already implicit in everything we were saying - that we were all on the same page.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
One thing I really hate is when white people insist that others spend all afternoon carefully explaining why they are misguided. Bugs the shit out of me.
― yes we kenya (suzy), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Then it's for being obvious. There is racism. I'll leave it at that.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
syntactically weird, suzy
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link