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.
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
We can reassess it’s necessity when the underlying critiques of white supremacy stop being relevant
In the last 24 hours one of the biggest of these threads can be distilled down to saying “Skiing is white supremacist for only being in places with cold climates”, “snow is racist”, and “sports that do not specifically cater to me and the place I live are inherently bourgeois.” People just blew up a thread about skiing bitching about the gear being expensive in California, imagining that people would make fun of them for using old gear (most people think retro gear is dope), and saying that it’s problematic because it doesn’t exist in [places where snow does not fall]
Half of the threads that are ostensibly about hating white people are posted by a couple of users who mostly post these types of threads very clearly as a form of self harm.
These arguments are not as productive or relevant as you think.
The same OP of that thread called a biracial person in this thread a “half cracker” to dismiss their discomfort with posts they feel are hateful or self-hateful.
I think we should be able to recognize that there is a line crossed by some of these posts where they aren’t really jokes anymore, and actually reflect essentialist ideology. that’s a lack of theoretical understanding, and worse, a lack of kindness and empathy for different perspectives.
wtf
“cracker is not a real slur and cannot be used in a genuinely hateful way”
Hexbear: you wanna bet?
I don’t think they’re self harming. I read them and all I can see is “please please please please please please like me” with a little “lol jk” to make it go down an easier.
There very definitely are some users who clearly post when spiralling and will post a handful of very clearly self-harming posts each month most of which get removed by mods for being buckwild, and maybe one of which from the beginning of the spiral gets left up and then becomes one of these struggle session posts you’re talking about.
I don’t want any comrades to self-harm, yes, even if they are white
yeah it was kind of annoying
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
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.
I agree. I would never expect my post, or any post, to make that not happen at all
Where’s the critique in these recent posts? Where’s the jokes really?