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You missed my point. Arbeit Macht Frei was a nazi slogan, you aren't supposed to parse it. Similarly "It's OK to be white" is a white supremacist slogan. In bot

You missed my point. Arbeit Macht Frei was a nazi slogan, you aren't supposed to parse it. Similarly "It's OK to be white" is a white supremacist slogan. In both cases, if you're familiar with the slogan, then you respond to the signal, not the meaning of the words. It's a sort of inverse dog-whistle.

Manuel_D 4y ago
It's not a dog-whistle, there's no meaning behind the statement besides eliciting a certain reaction. They predicted that progressives would object to such an anodyne statement, and make themselves look like racists - after all, is it not okay to be white? But apparently they were right, people really did object to the statement "it's okay to be white. I doubt that random people being polled by Rasmussen are intimately familiar with 4chan trolling topics. Don't take the bait - even if you know the trolling campaign behind the phrase. Especially if you know, taking the bait when you know it's bait is even more stupid.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  When a white supremacist says “it’s okay to be white” what they mean is “it’s only okay to be white”. It’s not an anodyne statement if you know this, so why would you agree with it in any context? This isn’t a “we can all be who we are and that’s okay” self empowerment kind of sentiment. Do you know or interact with any white supremacists? They are not very accepting people.
  - Manuel_D 4y ago
    > When a white supremacist says “it’s okay to be white” what they mean is “it’s only okay to be white” This is a massive leap in reasoning. Since when does "it's okay to be X" really mean "it's not okay to be anything other than X"? If you know what this statement means, you know that it's bait to try and get you to say it's not okay to be white thereby making you seem racist.
    - ModernMech 4y ago
      That's not a massive leap, that's the what white supremacists explicitly tell me they believe.
      - Manuel_D 4y ago
        They're telling you this to troll you into sounding racist: you're falling for their trick and making yourself look like a racist by objecting to such an anodyne statement. You're falling for the bait hook line and sinker.
        ModernMech 4y ago
        So I live in some backwards world where white supremacists are not racists but in fact trolls, and I’m the one whose racist for taking them at their word. Okay.
        stefan_ 4y ago
        This part where you are convinced everyone is being baited and just you got it right is getting quite boring. They call it tone deaf.
        Manuel_D 4y ago
        This is an objective fact. The entire premise of the phrase is to bait people, the threads where this campaign was devised are archived and it's well known that the intended goal of the trolls was to get people to object to the phrase: > The phrase “It’s Okay To Be White” is a slogan popularized in late 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the controversial discussion forum 4chan. The original idea behind the campaign was to choose an ostensibly innocuous and inoffensive slogan, put that slogan on fliers bereft of any other words or imagery, then place the fliers in public locations. Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white. https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white This isn't speculation, we know for a fact that the goal was to get people to react like the above commenter.
- freejazz 4y ago
  It's amusing that so many folks here are putting forth these "plausible" "explanations" but never make the favor going the other way, i.e. that "blacks" responded the way they did because they think it's actually "great" to be white, or "fantastic", or "much better than ok" but you are making these obviously credulous assumptions for Adams!

Manuel_D 4y ago

It's not a dog-whistle, there's no meaning behind the statement besides eliciting a certain reaction. They predicted that progressives would object to such an anodyne statement, and make themselves look like racists - after all, is it not okay to be white? But apparently they were right, people really did object to the statement "it's okay to be white. I doubt that random people being polled by Rasmussen are intimately familiar with 4chan trolling topics. Don't take the bait - even if you know the trolling campaign behind the phrase. Especially if you know, taking the bait when you know it's bait is even more stupid.

ModernMech 4y ago
When a white supremacist says “it’s okay to be white” what they mean is “it’s only okay to be white”. It’s not an anodyne statement if you know this, so why would you agree with it in any context? This isn’t a “we can all be who we are and that’s okay” self empowerment kind of sentiment. Do you know or interact with any white supremacists? They are not very accepting people.
- Manuel_D 4y ago
  > When a white supremacist says “it’s okay to be white” what they mean is “it’s only okay to be white” This is a massive leap in reasoning. Since when does "it's okay to be X" really mean "it's not okay to be anything other than X"? If you know what this statement means, you know that it's bait to try and get you to say it's not okay to be white thereby making you seem racist.
  - ModernMech 4y ago
    That's not a massive leap, that's the what white supremacists explicitly tell me they believe.
    - Manuel_D 4y ago
      They're telling you this to troll you into sounding racist: you're falling for their trick and making yourself look like a racist by objecting to such an anodyne statement. You're falling for the bait hook line and sinker.
      - ModernMech 4y ago
        So I live in some backwards world where white supremacists are not racists but in fact trolls, and I’m the one whose racist for taking them at their word. Okay.
      - stefan_ 4y ago
        This part where you are convinced everyone is being baited and just you got it right is getting quite boring. They call it tone deaf.
        Manuel_D 4y ago
        This is an objective fact. The entire premise of the phrase is to bait people, the threads where this campaign was devised are archived and it's well known that the intended goal of the trolls was to get people to object to the phrase: > The phrase “It’s Okay To Be White” is a slogan popularized in late 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the controversial discussion forum 4chan. The original idea behind the campaign was to choose an ostensibly innocuous and inoffensive slogan, put that slogan on fliers bereft of any other words or imagery, then place the fliers in public locations. Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white. https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white This isn't speculation, we know for a fact that the goal was to get people to react like the above commenter.
freejazz 4y ago
It's amusing that so many folks here are putting forth these "plausible" "explanations" but never make the favor going the other way, i.e. that "blacks" responded the way they did because they think it's actually "great" to be white, or "fantastic", or "much better than ok" but you are making these obviously credulous assumptions for Adams!