edit: for anyone stumbling into the drama, i probably should have elaborated on this post. I am not saying you can't make fun of white people not being able to eat spicy food or anything, but at some point it becomes self-flagellating. to quote comrade RedQuestionAsker:

It's good to challenge white supremacy in all of its incarnations at all time. It's certainly good to refuse to be proud to be white considering what the concept of whiteness is.

It's another thing to performatively hate yourself in a cocktail of millennial self-deprecation and liberal white guilt. It's not revolutionary, and it's probably not good for you.

that is all. comrades just know i dont hate any of you. i'm not trying to start a slapfight. i just saw this as weird performative behavior and wanted to call it out.

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I agree, it's incredibly self serving and you're not fooling anybody

I bet many other POC feel the same as me but I rarely even complain about white people here because I know it's like 90% white so it's just an audience that could never empathize with what I'm saying

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

most people HERE specifically are probably doing it to signify either that it's funny, or that they aren't silently brooding, or to make fun of the lemmy people taking it seriously. It's more like a "har har" than going doe-eyed and slowly nodding like "yeah no, I know, I know, actually my partner and I decided against having children because white supremacy is..."

ymmv for other groups of people

[–] worldonaturtle@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If we keep up the joke it will no longer be a joke. Total support for the message going from ironic to serious!

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

This is exactly what happened to r/pcmasterrace and probably a hundred other examples I'm forgetting.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

I bet many other POC feel the same

I don't, I enjoy making white jokes

I don't straight up advocate violence though (but I will always upvote a white comrade doing it to themselves, because it's funny)

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yes. Its a very "why even bother" feeling