Kind of ironic that whoever made this video whitewashes minority issues while pretending to care about minority issues.
Black voters remained overwhelmingly loyal to the Democratic Party, voting 92%-8% for Biden.
And regarding Project 2025, The woman in the video simultaneously acknowledges its sheer fascism while downplaying criticism of it. It’s an impressive feat, really.
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”.
The line is commonly used to imply that someone who denies something very strongly is hiding the truth of it
I don’t watch Jimmy Dore
There is a difference between talking about the danger and the historical impact of racism as a metaphysical concept, and actualizing racism by participating in its use for “irony”.
Talking about racism should center around the fact that it’s a fraudulent human construct that was erected to deny large swaths of humanity their rights, dignity, and lives. The whole point of talking about racism is to address the historical and current inequalities it perpetuates.
Does perpetuating the concept of racism lead to less racism?
If this young lady actually manages to anger a racist with racism(unlikely), who do you think that racist is going to take it out on…? Because I’m going to guess this young lady has never had to physically defend themselves from an actual racist.
Do you not see the irony of posting a video that defines race as a reality and then justifies it to children?
What is the definition of a white person? A European, a pale person, any specific ethnicity? Does it have to do with genetics, culture, or historical cotext… No, it’s an ever changing classification system whose only purpose is dehumanization and establishing hierarchy.
There are more genetic variables between African tribes located 100k away from each other than there is outside of all of Africa. Yet because they produce varying degrees of melanin, an entire continent is just labeled as black?
It’s perplexing how adamant people who self identify as white refuse to believe that the idea of race is a fabricated modern concept. The west is the only place on earth I’ve heard people utilize a color in place of their ethnicity. Not only will they identify as a color, but will implicitly categorize others as colors as well. Oh you’re from Kenyan? Well you’re black now, welcome to America.
Race is a social construct, but racism is not.
I’ll tell all my friends who participated in the Black Lives Matter protests that racism is over, because some dude on the internet called it.
And regarding Project 2025, The woman in the video simultaneously acknowledges its sheer fascism while downplaying criticism of it. It’s an impressive feat, really.
You forgot the part where she says, “even though underrepresented groups have told us that Project 2025 has been in motion since the 70’s and 80’s. And they already experience fascism under Biden.”
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Same. I’m not white, nor liberal, and this is weird.
Why are the people who claim to be fighting against the western hegemony, adopting the same belief structures as those they criticize?
White people co-opting racial discrimination to discriminate against themselves isn’t helping people of color. All it does is just lend credence to the whole defunct ideology of race science.
This isn’t trying to abolish racism, they’re just trying to rearrange the paradigm. They could have just said liberals and made the same point, the only reason to add white is to sound edgy and pander to “non racist” people who still implicitly believe in racial science.
The easiest way to onboard toxic ideas in progressive spaces is to plop the word “white” in front of a thought. “I really hate these white gays” or “white trans women are entitled” etc.
And as always… If TERFs taught us anything, ironic bigotry is a couple steps away from unironic bigotry.
It’s one of the problems I have with “the dirtbag left”. They are aping the same combative and divisional tactics that conservatives utilized to get trump elected, without realizing that the inherent power of leftism lays in its cooperative nature.
Fascism thrives on divide and conquer, we don’t have that luxury. We have to band together, offer mutual aid, and protect those that can’t protect themselves. Theory is meaningless if it’s used as a gatekeeper, and seemingly it’s all they care about.
The jokes that are/were deployed aren’t even jokes. From purple on the far right saying the N word, to people saying “kill all men”, there’s no joke, no punchline. To disarm a reactionary who uses a “joke” like that, you can ask them what the point was. To disarm somebody who thinks they’re left of center, I’m not sure.
Yeah, it’s been a bit of a gut shot since using Lemmy. I haven’t messed with social media for a while, basically left reddit when it became an intolerable hotbed for reactionaries a few years back.
But at least the tactics they employed made sense for fascist. It was copesetic for the divisional environment where fascist thrive. I just don’t know what it brings to the table for leftist?
I just don’t know what the point of dissuading open communication about leftism is. That’s been half the battle for leftist throughout history, and now that there’s public discourse were shunning people for being liberal? Where do they think revolutionaries come from? Revolutionaries aren’t born, they’re forged from the liberals who realize they’ve been lied to.
Lemmy is actually a little better than I expected, people here are at least cringing at TokenBoomer for being rightfully cringe. Mastodon is much more progressive-liberal leaning.
I’m cringe?
I’m sorry for trying to dissuade you from participating in …race science?
Let’s see if I can help clear this up…
You can’t utilize racism in an ironic way, or attempt to turn it against those that wield it to protect their hegemony. It just doesn’t work that way.
Have you ever tried to utilize a racial slur against a white person, as a person of color? It doesn’t work, they don’t care, they know that there is no threat to their hegemony.
They are completely confident in the pecking order, and utilizing racial slurs is just an acknowledgement that you believe in the pecking order as well, you’re just upset at the order. So when you call someone trash for being white, they’re fine, because in their mind even if they are trash, they’re still running the hegemony. And if they’re trash and they’re in charge, what does that make you?
Race is a concept with no scientific backing, the only reason it still is so prevalent in western culture is because even liberal and leftist refuse to cease their participation in its use. They call it bad, or evil, but they still accept it as more than a metaphysical concept.
Lol, I guess there is no dialogue to be had with shit posters cosplaying as “leftist”?
I guess it is to be expected, the hegemony has to preserve its racial hierarchy, and I guess your love of categorizing people based on color is more important to you than your political ideology. Pretty typical of westerners.
Color me not surprised.
In Jordan Peele’s Horror Movie, Get Out, the “Monster” Is Liberal Racism.
In this scathing satire, Get Out examines racism and how white liberals are obliviously racist, which was summed up perfectly with the line, “I would have voted for Obama for a 3rd term.
Maybe this will finally wake up white liberal America and they will finally understand that being especially inclusive to anyone because of their race, is in fact, racist. Source.
So you’re saying that a man creating art that reflects on his experience as a person of color is the same as a “white” people utilizing racism for views on ticktock?
Also, just because a person of color made a statement about race doesn’t mean it’s inarguable. As I said previously, this country forces you to adopt the concept of race as a reality. Of course this will be reflected in the art of those who have experienced it.
This supports my original claim, that the hegemony doesn’t care about being made fun of. Get Out was universally well received, and that’s because it reinforces the liberal idea of race relations in America.
It’s kinda hilarious that you utilized the art of a person of color that self identifies as liberal for justification about criticizing “white liberals”. Is your problem with liberalism, or are you just using liberal as an excuse to participate in racism? He advocates for the same policy as “white liberals”, do the criticisms of the young lady in the video not apply to Jordan Peel? If they do, then what was the point of injecting racial ideologies? If they don’t apply, why? Do people of color who advocate for liberal ideas lack the autonomy to participate in politics? Why judge “white people” more harshly?
I’m not criticizing people for discussing racism, I’m not even criticizing people who utilize the concept of race to express their experiences with racism. I’m criticizing you in particular, a person who I can safely assume has never experienced racism on a personal level, using it and perpetuating it because you think it’s fun for memes. And I’m criticizing the lady in the video for her performative “white saviour” routine, who’s benefited from the concept of race her whole life, and now criticizing it, perpetuating it, and benefiting from it once again.
I’ve read through some of your comment history, and I have to admit we share a lot of the same beliefs, and I don’t think you are trying to be a bad person. I just think you don’t have a lot of perspective of what it is like to be a minority in America, and thus are unaware how deeply affected you are by this country’s implicit beliefs in the eurocentric definition of race.
This ideology that only allows “white” people to simultaneously engage with it, utilize it, benefit from it, while also benefiting from criticizing its existence. The ideology that for some reason you think you have a better grasp of, even though your only personal experience with it has been to reap the implicit benefits of the concept.
I await your response, which I’m sure will be some meme or some gotcha like quip that serves no purpose, but to reveal how thinly veiled your virtue signaling really is. Oh I’m sure you really care about us poor defenseless people of color, just look at how many memes you’ve posted! Truly, you must be the one we’ve been waiting for, the white man criticizing other white men for being white! What a time to be alive!
Is this what you want? Does that fulfill your saviour complex for you? Or would you just like to continue to lecture me about my race via memes? What will it be master?
I’m a white liberal, I downvote the truth while pretending it doesn’t apply to me.