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No, the term to Google here would be "misinterpreting inclusive cultural norms as appropriation".

• zachrose 6y ago
  One of these has 57,000 results and the other one has zero.
  • codemonkey-zeta 6y ago
    I'm confused by the plurality of this single overly-aggressive cultural perspective that any intercourse even vaguely race-related necessarily is a transgression against the minority race involved. Your analysis of the anecdote(!) that white offices seem to use people of color in gifs more often is concerning. It doesn't seem reasonable to think that working-class whites -- through meme communication at work -- oppress anybody in any meaningful way. Of course I understand _why_ someone would think that, and I largely agree with it. That is the theory that modern white culture consists of microaggressions which enforce a race-order in society while outwardly appearing "equal" and "inclusive". But the memes at work? Aren't there more important institutionalized racist policies to tackle? When you argue that the individual's choice to use memes with people of color is itself a problem worth addressing, we lose the more important issues that need to be fixed to the noise. If you really want to convince someone (or society) that something needs to change, you don't ask them to change a million things, you ask them for one thing. That's why we've been divided on race issues for so long, but it's even worse what's happening now. Now, the left (or those whites "in power" who say they are "woke" and want change) realizes it's easier to sit back and claim martyrdom for failing to convince the right (or those whites "in power" whose support is needed to make systematic racial change) because of some fundamental flaw in our opponent, rather than because of some flaw in the completely incoherent message of "change" that we are maintaining. And it's disgusting because the left revels in this self-righteousness while actively sabotaging our own "goals" in order to reserve for ourselves this position of universality. If we really want to make any change we would pick ONE policy. We would push and push until it HAD to become _law_. Then we would continue to push that program until that law HAD to become a _success_, and we would use that success to push ONE more policy. But we muddy the conversation with inane demands like "the (anecdotal!) tendency of white people to use people of color in gifs to communicate on Slack must be addressed," not so that we will actually _change_ that behavior, but once again to reserve the moral high-ground for, you guessed it, WHITES IN POWER (US). I think this is the most sinister and disgusting forms of racism, and it's being perpetuated by US! Most progressive whites I know really ARE good people, and really DO want social change, but they (you, OP, you) don't realize that they're participating in a much more dangerous form of oppression, because it _feels good_. It probably made you feel really good that you "educated" all of us on HN on this super important racial topic that you just happen to be "woke" on. You probably thought that was you "doing your part to end racism." Well your moralist masturbation just perpetuated the very cycle of racism that you espouse to despise.
  • Aeolun 6y ago
    You kind of need to search without quotes, and you’ll get very appropriate results.