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White people and 'White Culture' are two separate things. White culture was birthed out of a chain of exploitative and violent feudal systems that aren't historically unique. It's just the most recent one was white and white supremacy ideologically justifies it ->
White people came up with a stupid thing, but it has nothing to do with them culturally in a specific unique way because all cultures (can) be violent or have used violent justifications for things, rational or not.
A lot of this new discourse is related to Nick Cannon -
A lot of this new discourse is related to Nick Cannon -
I don't care whether or not NoName meant this in a direct sense, but the sentiments in it can be traced back to it. He said that white culture and white people are one in the same and are inherently savage.
Even w/o Nick Cannon involved, Poc believe white people are violent.
Even w/o Nick Cannon involved, Poc believe white people are violent.
...They are, yes. But So Are We. We all are and have that capacity and it's hilariously and pathetically ahistorical to try to put on rose-colored glasses and act like we aren't and it's just white people that act like this.
That's the issue I have here.
That's the issue I have here.
Black people on twitter have a really bad tendency of mixing both and not distinguishing them because so many white people are racist and they don't bother to.
So this tweet feels reactionary. "I think of white culture and just think of violence."
So this tweet feels reactionary. "I think of white culture and just think of violence."
The system of white supremacy and the 'preservation of **white culture**' is violent. Races were created in order to ENACT and JUSTIFY violence. But you have to talk about it as an ongoing constant cycle of systems that human beings create. It's not uniquely white.
White people have culture. They always have. Europe is full of it. The reactionary 'preservation' of that through the pearl-clutching over globalization via imperialism and colonization is where we can get into discussing 'white culture' and what it means.
..But you have to distinguish wanting to preserve white culture as a social order vs. white people with culture just existing. Because white people created this current version of global exploitation and cruelty and white faces are at the head, it's easy to mix them all up.
I would argue that it's very important that we DON'T fall into the liberal trap of doing that because then you get charlatans and opportunists who muddle it and mix it with our community resentment so we start ESSENTIALIZING white people and ourselves by extension.
..That's why rhetoric from people like Louis Farrakhan are so pervasive. He deliberately muddles the distinctions and uses black community pain as a tool to have them essentialize white people and black people.
..But black liberals and academics do the same thing.
..But black liberals and academics do the same thing.
There's a new phrase going around.. "Melanated people." And ascribing positive things to it in an essentialist manner. It presumes that because you're melanated that you're a better person and that you're good, pure, more socially apt, loving, and compassionate.
It's dangerous. This muddling of discussing white people and white culture is dangerous and it's the other side of the mirror when we're looking at white supremacy and race preservation and its roots.
..Because a nazi WOULD agree with you that your skin makes you different.
..Because a nazi WOULD agree with you that your skin makes you different.
...Not only biologically, but that your DNA gives you innate personality characteristics SPECIFIC to your race.
The only difference is that you call yourself loving and they'll call you noble, but inferior. 'Magical,' but stupid.
The only difference is that you call yourself loving and they'll call you noble, but inferior. 'Magical,' but stupid.
..But they'll crick their necks in your direction when you categorize groups of human beings with this amount of negligence.
They'll smile at that. And it's time we acknowledge that we give them room to tell us that WE'RE saying they're right in our own way.
They'll smile at that. And it's time we acknowledge that we give them room to tell us that WE'RE saying they're right in our own way.
@petercoffin - figured you'd like this thread, darlin :3
