Nope. I have been abundantly clear from the start that it’s about the BEHAVIOR and LACK OF AWARENESS of some people, not the color of their skin.
... by using the term 'white' in the racial sense to denigrate those people.
If you called someone who was white 'Black' "because they were acting like a thug", and objected that it was BEHAVIOR you were talking about, not skin color, would that be any less fucking racist?
The answer is "No"
Why don't we skip ahead to the end and have you call me a cracker? I've been through this song and dance before. It's funny - the emphasis is always on listening to the experiences of minorities until someone who's mixed-race comes along, then suddenly all of these supposedly liberal people become white saviors who are the arbiters what is and is not offensive.
Normal racists, they're shitheads. Who the fuck gives a fuck about them. But people like you, joyfully, innocently, self-righteously denigrating people because of what race they are or partially are, because they're 'privileged', and therefore who gives a shit about them? Immensely frustrating.
If you applied that kind of standard to literally any other fucking racial category and negative qualifier, you'd call it out as horrifically racist, and rightly so.
It’s basically using “white” as a shorthand for “privileged people not aware of their own privilege or the challenges of others, many of whom are white”.
So you could conceivably call someone who is Black but otherwise belonging to privileged groups 'white'?
As a mixed-race individual, it's not about whether race is a valid identifier in any objective sense or not. Our society still puts a great deal of emphasis on race regardless.
I wouldn't consider my identity particularly 'white', but when that's used to denigrate me, like I'm only part-valid? That feels like shit. Something between rage and absolute isolation.
But as October 7 shows, just because those claims were false doesn’t mean Hamas covered themselves in glory. They left a pile of dead bodies on the Nova festival stage before swiping what looked like a doughnut from a gas station convenience store, firing semiautomatic weapons randomly into car windows and port-a-potties, and killing more than three dozen Thai guest workers, though one who describes to Al Jazeera being dragged past a room full of his murdered colleagues suggests Gazan civilians led his particular abduction. “Hamas fighters committed crimes on October 7,” the narrator points out. “The Israeli media, however, focuses not on the crimes Hamas committed, but on crimes they did not.”
That's the big absurdity of the Israeli narrative, really.
As much as I appreciate the reality that the US is somewhat stuck, geopolitically (a fact that many well-meaning American “leftists” fail to recognize),
It's really not, though. Our weird relationship with Israel only entered its current phase in the late 70s and has done incredible damage to our interests in MENA. We're behind them because of domestic politics, not international.
We, as human beings, often register false positives or harbor paranoias - noises where there are none, still shadows turned to sweeping figures. Rolls without reason simply simulate that within the context of tabletop roleplaying.
No, no, once things are North Korea level bad, the people will totally rise up. That's what stops people from rising up - they aren't oppressed enough. If we give enough power to the fascists, it'll DEFINITELY work out this time! "After Hitler, us!"
... by using the term 'white' in the racial sense to denigrate those people.
If you called someone who was white 'Black' "because they were acting like a thug", and objected that it was BEHAVIOR you were talking about, not skin color, would that be any less fucking racist?
The answer is "No"
Why don't we skip ahead to the end and have you call me a cracker? I've been through this song and dance before. It's funny - the emphasis is always on listening to the experiences of minorities until someone who's mixed-race comes along, then suddenly all of these supposedly liberal people become white saviors who are the arbiters what is and is not offensive.