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> a slogan which originated as part of an organized alt-right trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/

> a slogan which originated as part of an organized alt-right trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white

joenot443 4y ago
I think you’re vastly overestimating how many people would see that phrase as a meme and wouldn’t just be responding in good faith.
- freejazz 4y ago
  as opposed to you good faith assuming that 20% of black people don't think it's okay to be white?
  - joenot443 4y ago
    I live in a very demographically mixed part of NYC. I wasn't pleased with that result, but wasn't especially surprised by it either. People are angry these days, I think one would be ignorant to pretend otherwise.
    - freejazz 4y ago
      Yeah? I'm actually from NYC, not just living here, and I completely disagree with you. You probably shouldn't go outside if you can't mentally navigate around this sort of credulously stupid nonsense. Maybe an internship for Adams is your kind of thing.
      - deleted 4y ago
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Manuel_D 4y ago
And the trolls were proven right, apparently. The correct response to trolling is to not take the bait. But people seem to be devouring the bait. Disagreeing with the statement "it's okay to be white" is just such a bone-headed move that I'm more frustrated with the people responding negatively than the people asking the question.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  They're responding to a white-supremacist campaign slogan, not to the meaning of the words.
  - Manuel_D 4y ago
    And through their responses, they are advancing said white-supremacists' goals of making them look like anti-white racists. They know this, yet do it anyway. Like I said, it's incredibly stupid and counter-productive. They know it's bait, but they're eating it up anyway.
    - denton-scratch 4y ago
      If you ask me in a survey whether it's true that "work makes you free", I'll say no, whatever my views about work and freedom.
      - landoftheice 4y ago
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      - Manuel_D 4y ago
        I'm not sure how that's comparable. Work doesn't make you free: there are people that work that are not free. There are people that don't work, but are free. Objecting to the statement "work makes you free" isn't indicating any hatred towards a particular group. By comparison, objecting to "it's okay to be white" would imply that it's not okay to be white. Hence why objecting to such an anodyne statement is recognized by many to be racism. Imagine someone objecting to "it's okay to be Asian", or "It's okay to be African". If people recognize that it's said to try and bait people into making a statement perceived to be anti-white racism, but object to it anyway then doubly wrong on them: they know that it's bait but they're scarfing it down anyway.

joenot443 4y ago

I think you’re vastly overestimating how many people would see that phrase as a meme and wouldn’t just be responding in good faith.

freejazz 4y ago
as opposed to you good faith assuming that 20% of black people don't think it's okay to be white?
- joenot443 4y ago
  I live in a very demographically mixed part of NYC. I wasn't pleased with that result, but wasn't especially surprised by it either. People are angry these days, I think one would be ignorant to pretend otherwise.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    Yeah? I'm actually from NYC, not just living here, and I completely disagree with you. You probably shouldn't go outside if you can't mentally navigate around this sort of credulously stupid nonsense. Maybe an internship for Adams is your kind of thing.
    - deleted 4y ago
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Manuel_D 4y ago

And the trolls were proven right, apparently. The correct response to trolling is to not take the bait. But people seem to be devouring the bait. Disagreeing with the statement "it's okay to be white" is just such a bone-headed move that I'm more frustrated with the people responding negatively than the people asking the question.

denton-scratch 4y ago
They're responding to a white-supremacist campaign slogan, not to the meaning of the words.
- Manuel_D 4y ago
  And through their responses, they are advancing said white-supremacists' goals of making them look like anti-white racists. They know this, yet do it anyway. Like I said, it's incredibly stupid and counter-productive. They know it's bait, but they're eating it up anyway.
  - denton-scratch 4y ago
    If you ask me in a survey whether it's true that "work makes you free", I'll say no, whatever my views about work and freedom.
    - landoftheice 4y ago
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    - Manuel_D 4y ago
      I'm not sure how that's comparable. Work doesn't make you free: there are people that work that are not free. There are people that don't work, but are free. Objecting to the statement "work makes you free" isn't indicating any hatred towards a particular group. By comparison, objecting to "it's okay to be white" would imply that it's not okay to be white. Hence why objecting to such an anodyne statement is recognized by many to be racism. Imagine someone objecting to "it's okay to be Asian", or "It's okay to be African". If people recognize that it's said to try and bait people into making a statement perceived to be anti-white racism, but object to it anyway then doubly wrong on them: they know that it's bait but they're scarfing it down anyway.