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> As a card carrying “person of color” I’ve literally never heard a non-white person (who wasn’t on TV) express concern about climate change As a "card carryin

> As a card carrying “person of color” I’ve literally never heard a non-white person (who wasn’t on TV) express concern about climate change As a "card carrying" PoC you heard it from me now. So stop it with your uncle tom herman cain bullshit. Your POV is absurdly atypical for a brown immigrant and you must really stop trying to mislead others into believing that you speak for all brown people.

rayiner 4y ago
Can you define “absurdly atypical” as a percentage? Because Democrats barely cleared 60-40 among Hispanics and Asians this midterm. I’m pretty sure that 40% doesn’t meaningfully care about climate change. Does it make sense to racialize an issue based on a split that’s basically dog people versus cat people? And then there’s all the brown Democrats who don’t meaningfully care about climate change. Nearly all the brown people I know are democrats, and will say they think climate change is real (hell I would say that too) but that doesn’t stop them from buying an SUV. The people who care deeply about climate change, enough to change their lifestyle, and vote on the issue, are overwhelmingly white. For example, this picture of Extinction Rebellion NYC has to be the whitest gathering in that city: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce0b9b4c14cff00014df8a4/1588685674045-9306UPL6PPIWBGWLU76X/CitzensAssembly_WSP.f.jpg?format=1500w https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce0b9b4c14cff... (I’m not cherry picking. That’s the first group picture on their website.) It’s bullshit when white liberals try to appropriate the political capital of brown people to push issues that they care about more than any one else. It’s a form of political disenfranchisement.
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  "Extinction Rebellion" are a specific subgroup of environmentalists who intentionally get themselves arrested. I can see why they would lean towards paler skin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Arrest_as_a_tactic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Arrest_as...

rayiner 4y ago

Can you define “absurdly atypical” as a percentage? Because Democrats barely cleared 60-40 among Hispanics and Asians this midterm. I’m pretty sure that 40% doesn’t meaningfully care about climate change. Does it make sense to racialize an issue based on a split that’s basically dog people versus cat people? And then there’s all the brown Democrats who don’t meaningfully care about climate change. Nearly all the brown people I know are democrats, and will say they think climate change is real (hell I would say that too) but that doesn’t stop them from buying an SUV. The people who care deeply about climate change, enough to change their lifestyle, and vote on the issue, are overwhelmingly white. For example, this picture of Extinction Rebellion NYC has to be the whitest gathering in that city: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce0b9b4c14cff00014df8a4/1588685674045-9306UPL6PPIWBGWLU76X/CitzensAssembly_WSP.f.jpg?format=1500w https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce0b9b4c14cff... (I’m not cherry picking. That’s the first group picture on their website.) It’s bullshit when white liberals try to appropriate the political capital of brown people to push issues that they care about more than any one else. It’s a form of political disenfranchisement.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
"Extinction Rebellion" are a specific subgroup of environmentalists who intentionally get themselves arrested. I can see why they would lean towards paler skin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Arrest_as_a_tactic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Arrest_as...