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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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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (17 children)
[–] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

It doesn't need to be racist to be cringe or unhelpful

Honestly I thought these jokes were funny 3 or 4 years ago but have we not beat the dead horse enough at this point? It's just overplayed now

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (13 children)

We can reassess it’s necessity when the underlying critiques of white supremacy stop being relevant

[–] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think they educate anyone in that. If one finds them funny, one is already well convinced of critiques of white supremacy. They're jokes, not education.

I just want more creative jokes tbh

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I don’t think their utility is educating, I just imagine they’ll stop being made once there’s not a white supremacy background to joke about.

[–] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree. I would never expect my post, or any post, to make that not happen at all

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