RE: Some interesting stuff I learned about [white] nationalists
January 12, 2015 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 11:14 pm by Regina.)
To be honest, I struggle to think of these people as "evil" so much as I think of them as downright weird. Why this obsession with race? It's so petty.
I do think every person, and not just white people, will occasionally have some racial prejudices. They're not right and it's not a justification, but in the racialized society we live in it's hard not to do it and I think anyone who says "I do not judge based on race" is lying. We can, and should, try not to however.
But these people... it's an obsession with race. I find it downright weird for anyone to be that interested in race, that they can claim they can spot a non-white person just by examining their features. I knew a Jewish boy once who had blond hair and blue eyes, go figure.
I'm white as they come (pale skin, blue-grey eyes, dark brown hair), but I do have some distant North African ancestry (no more than one great-grandparent's worth). It's just weird to me, the thought that having a small amount of "non-white" ancestry could completely change someone's opinion of me like that. It's petty.
Also adding my name to the list of people who see absolutely no point in "white pride". We have no need for it. We can have "white pride" when most police men are black and gun down innocent white teens for no reason. Ya not happening anytime soon, if ever.
I do think every person, and not just white people, will occasionally have some racial prejudices. They're not right and it's not a justification, but in the racialized society we live in it's hard not to do it and I think anyone who says "I do not judge based on race" is lying. We can, and should, try not to however.
But these people... it's an obsession with race. I find it downright weird for anyone to be that interested in race, that they can claim they can spot a non-white person just by examining their features. I knew a Jewish boy once who had blond hair and blue eyes, go figure.
I'm white as they come (pale skin, blue-grey eyes, dark brown hair), but I do have some distant North African ancestry (no more than one great-grandparent's worth). It's just weird to me, the thought that having a small amount of "non-white" ancestry could completely change someone's opinion of me like that. It's petty.
Also adding my name to the list of people who see absolutely no point in "white pride". We have no need for it. We can have "white pride" when most police men are black and gun down innocent white teens for no reason. Ya not happening anytime soon, if ever.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
