RE: Assholes in the news
February 24, 2021 at 2:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2021 at 2:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 24, 2021 at 12:52 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: And the woman who literally coined the term created this video that seems to have barely bothered to compensate for that. If you’re trying to reach the ordinary white person and you’re not even bothering to adjust your messaging to get past white people’s fragility, then what’s the fucking point? It just renders the whole thing Sisyphean.It's her belief that living in a racially insular society has left Some People with little to no racial stamina. Unused to hearing uncomfortable or inconvenient shit from other POVs, they act out like children when confronted with an ugly truth. She believes that this sugarcoating of insularity has made it harder to hear these truths, not easier.
You're wondering why she doesn't bake white privilege into her sensitivity course on white privilege in the hopes that white privilege will be less of a problem.
Quote:And yes, it looks like all it took to turn Tim Gionet from a chill, pot-smoking libertarian who supported Black Lives Matter to a full-blown Neo-Nazi willing to storm the Capitol and overturn the results of a democratic election was a guy chiding him for calling Justin Bieber his “spirit animal” around the same time Donald Trump started to run for President on a campaign based mostly on open racism and færie dust. Seriously.That would be a hilarious story, but it's beyond unlikely that this was really the reason he went full 14 words. He merely realized (correctly), that it was okay to be a neo-nazi...and, fwiw, profitable too. White supremacists smoke pot. White supremacists are down for Libertarianism™. Social libs swallow the white genocide haterade - it's explicitly constructed for them.
If we have to worry that people are going to snap and turn into nazis for reasons this silly, maybe we should save ourselves the trouble of trying to prevent it at all. Maybe they'll turn into nazis if the guy fucks up their schwarma, too. In mere reality, however, the guy looks to have turned into a nazi, if he turned into anything at all, the same way that anyone does. By listening to nazis, and hanging out with nazis. It's really that simple. He knew what he was getting into, so that adds another layer to the onion. Most people don't, and think that they wouldn't hang out with nazis and that they're ungettable. This asshole was looking to be wooed.
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