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off-topic: Why does 'white' increasingly get used as a pejorative?
by 0des 5y ago
off-topic: Why does 'white' increasingly get used as a pejorative?
- metalliqaz 5y agobecause its woke. racism and sexism are so hot right now </mugatu> The real problem is class. Always has been.
- snarf21 5y agoAnd class has nothing to do with race?
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoIt has in the US, in the sense that a small minority of white people ruled the majority of white and black people. Just like a small percent of males perpetrate the majority of crimes whose victims are men and women. But people prefer oversimplification, so somehow they transform the above into "white = bad", "male = bad" etc.
- derekjdanserl 5y agoOnly in the sense that the concept of race was deployed to serve the ruling class. There is a wonderful book called Racecraft by Karen and Barbara Fields which lays out how this was achieved and how we got to where we are today. Highly recommend.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoIt is class, but the wealthy know this is a good distraction.
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- jjoonathan 5y agoRacism.
- civilized 5y agoBecause some journalists, who tend to be white people from affluent backgrounds, like to continuously perform racial self-loathing to signal that they are not the "wrong kind" of affluent white person. Actually, that's more of a side benefit. The real reason they do it is because they enjoy racial stereotyping (cf. Avenue Q's "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"). White-bashing is a safe outlet for that urge. If it were still socially acceptable to stereotype Asians as soulless, interchangeable technicians, they'd do that too. White-bashing is also the socially sanctioned way to signal that you're racially conscious. This qualifies you for elite white people jobs like the Harvard admissions committee, where it's important that everyone have the mindset needed to limit the representation of the racial groups considered undesirable. (Note that Harvard does not consider white a racial or ethnic group; only non-whites are racial/ethnic. You can see this from their yearly report of admissions by race, where whites are not mentioned and the racial percentages mysteriously add up to only about 55%: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics)
- derekjdanserl 5y agoBingo. Refreshing to come across this level of social awareness on Hacker News, which is not to put down Hacker News. I love it here. I just don’t expect to come across comments like this on here.