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The only reference to race I could find in that article is this, describing people who "roll coal" i.e. intentionally polluting as a way to own the libs: > “Bu

The only reference to race I could find in that article is this, describing people who "roll coal" i.e. intentionally polluting as a way to own the libs: > “Burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience,” Daggett writes, “a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order.” Now I don't know that statistics of coal rollers, but to me nothing in that article says pickup trucks are solely the domain of white people or that the problems with pickups only extend to white people. I think your characterization is completely off, nothing in that article says that black people don't buy pickups, and it certainly doesn't say that they cause any less damage than a white person buying one.

rayiner 4y ago
I think it’s completely fair to characterize the quote—which talks about the “reassertion of white masculine power”—as trying to create an assertion with “white supremacy.” (In the modern academic sense of the phrase, not literal KKK members.) The completely gratuitous association with “white masculinity” is, in fact, at odds with the fact that pickup trucks are popular with Black and Hispanic people too, for the same reasons they’re popular with white people. Yes it’s about masculinity, but there is no racial component to it. As to “rolling coal”—that’s the example in the immediately preceding text, but it’s in the context of several paragraphs discussing climate and the environment, under the bolded subheading of “petro-masculinity.” I don’t think it’s a stretch to say the quote about “white masculine power” is directed at the fuel inefficiency of pickup trucks generally, rather than rolling coal specifically.
- tptacek 4y ago
  You just conceded, one sentence before, that the bolded subhead is accurate. The burden is now on you to establish that "rolling coal" isn't racially coded behavior. I don't know for sure whether it is or it isn't, but I know where I'd bet. Pickup trucks are popular for reasons distinct from the popularity of deliberately creating plumes of noxious gasses as a protest against pollution regulations. Again: a deeply weird thing to bring into the discussion. And none of the subtlety you're providing now was in your original comment, which strongly implied that a Bloomberg article said that pickup trucks were coded white supremacist, which it clearly did not.
  - rayiner 4y ago
    I think it’s entirely fair to read the quoted reference to “white masculine power” as referring to the subject of the article as a whole rather than the specific reference to “rolling coal.” I think your missing the forest for the trees in reading that quote. And the sentiment is in the same vein as this article against tactical gear. The author isn’t trying to create a moral panic about Bangladeshis buying tactical gear.

rayiner 4y ago

I think it’s completely fair to characterize the quote—which talks about the “reassertion of white masculine power”—as trying to create an assertion with “white supremacy.” (In the modern academic sense of the phrase, not literal KKK members.) The completely gratuitous association with “white masculinity” is, in fact, at odds with the fact that pickup trucks are popular with Black and Hispanic people too, for the same reasons they’re popular with white people. Yes it’s about masculinity, but there is no racial component to it. As to “rolling coal”—that’s the example in the immediately preceding text, but it’s in the context of several paragraphs discussing climate and the environment, under the bolded subheading of “petro-masculinity.” I don’t think it’s a stretch to say the quote about “white masculine power” is directed at the fuel inefficiency of pickup trucks generally, rather than rolling coal specifically.

tptacek 4y ago
You just conceded, one sentence before, that the bolded subhead is accurate. The burden is now on you to establish that "rolling coal" isn't racially coded behavior. I don't know for sure whether it is or it isn't, but I know where I'd bet. Pickup trucks are popular for reasons distinct from the popularity of deliberately creating plumes of noxious gasses as a protest against pollution regulations. Again: a deeply weird thing to bring into the discussion. And none of the subtlety you're providing now was in your original comment, which strongly implied that a Bloomberg article said that pickup trucks were coded white supremacist, which it clearly did not.
- rayiner 4y ago
  I think it’s entirely fair to read the quoted reference to “white masculine power” as referring to the subject of the article as a whole rather than the specific reference to “rolling coal.” I think your missing the forest for the trees in reading that quote. And the sentiment is in the same vein as this article against tactical gear. The author isn’t trying to create a moral panic about Bangladeshis buying tactical gear.