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Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve.
RE: Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve.
(July 4, 2021 at 11:41 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(July 4, 2021 at 8:30 pm)Helios Wrote: 1. On the Vuash video Vuash makes it clear that "be less white" has a valid Academic base. The fact certain people are too stupid to understand it is not a problem. But as I have already said you and Vaush are not the same and I already stated the reason why.

And I'd like to remind IA that we went over this when the controversy originally happened. There is a specific academic definition of whiteness that was being used in that PowerPoint, one that hinges not on the pigmentation of one's skin, or how much ancestry one has from Europe, but on how that shit interacts with the power structures that govern the world and shaft most everyone who isn't white (or male, or heterosexual, or cisgender, or member of whatever religious group dominates the area, if applicable). That said, this is not a definition that the common person on the street is going to be familiar with. If it's going to do any good to the people who need to hear it, the crucial context that explains why this doesn't mean "white people are bad, stop existing kthxbai" really needs to be hammered in. And evidently, even when you have it explained to you, IA don't seem to get it.

Perhaps in the full presentation the PowerPoint was tied to, this was explained, but it's clearly far too easy to strip it of context and compound that defensiveness. And in a political environment where white nationalism in varying degrees of openness has become one of the biggest memes and fake news spreads on social media like wildfire, it's all but inevitable that this would happen. And then, when people less savvy to what shit like that means read this, they end up becoming useful idiots.
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RE: Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve. - by The Architect Of Fate - July 4, 2021 at 11:48 pm
RE: Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve. - by Mermaid - September 5, 2021 at 12:25 pm

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