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As long as you are consistent and are disgusted by all race based organisations equally then cool. But, realistically, there are race based associations. Quite

by roenxi 3y ago

As long as you are consistent and are disgusted by all race based organisations equally then cool. But, realistically, there are race based associations. Quite a lot of them. You're going to have to tolerate them - although I agree they are counterproductive. And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate. In the US in particular, whites are well on the way to being just one more minority in a vibrant society.

subjectsigma 3y ago
> And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate. Are you white? I am, and I don’t think any white person would claim this. At least where I live and work, we get reminded weekly how much a small contingent of ultra-progressives hate us.
d-z-m 3y ago
> And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate. I think it would be very unusual. I'm curious to know why you think otherwise. I also think it would be career and social suicide to be associated with said organization.
- roenxi 3y ago
  Picking on Harvard because I know a few people who went there and it is a decent signpost of what direction the US political elite are going in... If I go look up Black students at Harvard, I can find a Black student association association: https://www.theharvardbsa.com/ https://www.theharvardbsa.com/. The photos might not be completely representative of their membership but they are quite suggestive of a certain racial trend among the associates. Ditto the Harvard Latino alliance - https://harvardlatino.sigs.harvard.edu/ https://harvardlatino.sigs.harvard.edu/ - just eyeballing the photos but I it looks like this association is race biased too. I don't see why Whites are supposed to be all that different. I would suggest that in the future there will be a Harvard White Student association. Not immediately, but I'd say in a 30-50 year time horizon it'd be much more likely that not.
  - d-z-m 3y ago
    > I don't see why Whites are supposed to be all that different. I guess in theory they're not. In practice, pushback would liken a race-based group of white people to the famous negatively valence'd ones from history(KKK, Nazi, etc) and it would never be allowed to form(Especially at a place like Harvard).
    - tptacek 3y ago
      Nobody has any problem with Irish heritage groups, or Polish, or Italian. "White" isn't a coherent thing; it's defined (malleably) mostly in opposition to "Black", which is the ethnicity created by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which stripped millions of African people of their original cultural identities.
      - david-gpu 3y ago
        > Nobody has any problem with Irish heritage groups, or Polish, or Italian What about German or Austrian heritage groups? > "White" isn't a coherent thing But black, Asian or Latino are? They span whole continents, dozens of countries with radically different cultures. "White" is synonym with "European heritage". It is just as simple and as complex as any of the other broad categories mentioned earlier. But while it is socially acceptable to create associations for the former, the latter are looked at with such suspicion that only the most radicalized are even willing to join. Similar story with heterosexuals and men.
        kasey_junk 3y ago
        > What about German or Austrian heritage groups? No. No one has problems with these. You can find them in droves across broad swaths of any US town. In the Midwest especially they are central to festivals, police clubs, civic organizations and political organizations. Men’s organizations are similar. Effectively every church in America has men’s clubs that do prayer meetings, prison outreach, homeless support etc. There are men’s clubs for fathers, learning to debate, and driving funny little cars around to help burn victims. There are fraternal organizations on most college campuses. Heck there are still old fashioned private clubs where men can get together to drink whiskey and smoke cigars.

by roenxi 3y ago

subjectsigma 3y ago

> And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate. Are you white? I am, and I don’t think any white person would claim this. At least where I live and work, we get reminded weekly how much a small contingent of ultra-progressives hate us.

d-z-m 3y ago

> And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate. I think it would be very unusual. I'm curious to know why you think otherwise. I also think it would be career and social suicide to be associated with said organization.

roenxi 3y ago
Picking on Harvard because I know a few people who went there and it is a decent signpost of what direction the US political elite are going in... If I go look up Black students at Harvard, I can find a Black student association association: https://www.theharvardbsa.com/ https://www.theharvardbsa.com/. The photos might not be completely representative of their membership but they are quite suggestive of a certain racial trend among the associates. Ditto the Harvard Latino alliance - https://harvardlatino.sigs.harvard.edu/ https://harvardlatino.sigs.harvard.edu/ - just eyeballing the photos but I it looks like this association is race biased too. I don't see why Whites are supposed to be all that different. I would suggest that in the future there will be a Harvard White Student association. Not immediately, but I'd say in a 30-50 year time horizon it'd be much more likely that not.
- d-z-m 3y ago
  > I don't see why Whites are supposed to be all that different. I guess in theory they're not. In practice, pushback would liken a race-based group of white people to the famous negatively valence'd ones from history(KKK, Nazi, etc) and it would never be allowed to form(Especially at a place like Harvard).
  - tptacek 3y ago
    Nobody has any problem with Irish heritage groups, or Polish, or Italian. "White" isn't a coherent thing; it's defined (malleably) mostly in opposition to "Black", which is the ethnicity created by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which stripped millions of African people of their original cultural identities.
    - david-gpu 3y ago
      > Nobody has any problem with Irish heritage groups, or Polish, or Italian What about German or Austrian heritage groups? > "White" isn't a coherent thing But black, Asian or Latino are? They span whole continents, dozens of countries with radically different cultures. "White" is synonym with "European heritage". It is just as simple and as complex as any of the other broad categories mentioned earlier. But while it is socially acceptable to create associations for the former, the latter are looked at with such suspicion that only the most radicalized are even willing to join. Similar story with heterosexuals and men.
      - kasey_junk 3y ago
        > What about German or Austrian heritage groups? No. No one has problems with these. You can find them in droves across broad swaths of any US town. In the Midwest especially they are central to festivals, police clubs, civic organizations and political organizations. Men’s organizations are similar. Effectively every church in America has men’s clubs that do prayer meetings, prison outreach, homeless support etc. There are men’s clubs for fathers, learning to debate, and driving funny little cars around to help burn victims. There are fraternal organizations on most college campuses. Heck there are still old fashioned private clubs where men can get together to drink whiskey and smoke cigars.