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I dont actually understand the question.. what does "Is it ok to be white" mean?

Kye 4y ago
It was a troll campaign racists glommed on to, so now it's a dogwhistle. https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white Rasmussen Reports is known for its slight average conservative bias. Given the poor design of the poll, this is an outlier where it's worse than slight. This veers off into what I have to assume is intentional red meat for an increasingly radical base.
- bad_username 4y ago
  A generic phrase that is obviously true at face value has been declared "trolling" and everybody just agrees to concede it? And blame people who utter it? Is it OK to just lose language territory so easily? I am not American and this seems rather absurd to me.
  - Kye 4y ago
    It's not a generic phrase. It's an obscure phrase no one really thought about outside hardcore racist circles until it was picked up by trolls and embraced up by more average racists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white >> "The suggestion for the use of posters with the saying originated on the message board /pol/ of 4chan, with the intent of provoking reactions. The saying was later spread by neo-Nazi groups and politically organized white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and The Daily Stormer.[4] A report by the Anti-Defamation League states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.[1]" >> "I am not American and this seems rather absurd to me." Racism here is not like most other places, so your struggling to believe it is understandable. It should be absurd and unthinkable, but it's our messed up reality.

Kye 4y ago

It was a troll campaign racists glommed on to, so now it's a dogwhistle. https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white Rasmussen Reports is known for its slight average conservative bias. Given the poor design of the poll, this is an outlier where it's worse than slight. This veers off into what I have to assume is intentional red meat for an increasingly radical base.

bad_username 4y ago
A generic phrase that is obviously true at face value has been declared "trolling" and everybody just agrees to concede it? And blame people who utter it? Is it OK to just lose language territory so easily? I am not American and this seems rather absurd to me.
- Kye 4y ago
  It's not a generic phrase. It's an obscure phrase no one really thought about outside hardcore racist circles until it was picked up by trolls and embraced up by more average racists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white >> "The suggestion for the use of posters with the saying originated on the message board /pol/ of 4chan, with the intent of provoking reactions. The saying was later spread by neo-Nazi groups and politically organized white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and The Daily Stormer.[4] A report by the Anti-Defamation League states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.[1]" >> "I am not American and this seems rather absurd to me." Racism here is not like most other places, so your struggling to believe it is understandable. It should be absurd and unthinkable, but it's our messed up reality.