Kulturkampf

[benji]

https://www.mediaite.com/media/twitter-isnt-real-life-poll-finds-just-12-of-americans-found-sydney-sweeney-ad-offensive/



So......12% of Americans need to go outside more.

12% of Americans are Black. But I wasn't born yesterday. Y'all know what you're doing. You have to know, otherwise the reflexive defensiveness against charges of racism don't really make sense. The claim that ignorance is the primary motivator that begets racism contradicts with the aggressive downplaying and dismissal that happens whenever racism is unveiled in an individual instance. Usually when people don't know something, and they have good intentions, they defer authority to those who actually know better. You wouldn't make a false claim about, like, the biology of lions, get corrected by an expert in the field, and then go and tell said expert that they're wrong, right? Of course not. It's ridiculous on the surface.

But white people don't do that on average with racism, despite the argument that "they just don't know better." It's almost always an affirmative claim being made in defense of a presumed peace: "This individual instance isn't racist." Well, if you're ignorant about racism, how can you make an argument with certainty that any given racist incident is actually not racist? Hell, why in the world would you even get mad at being argued with on this? No one here was involved in the making of the ad and I presume no one has any stock in AE. There is no personal stake in the matter, so why jump to AE's defense in any way, even if it's just a "they didn't know better!", instead of just listening to what people who do know better have to say? Where is the display of good intentions that signal honest ignorance?

It's because y'all are amenable to white supremacy which says that white people are best at all things, which would inevitably include sussing out what the effects and examples of racism are better than minorities are somehow. You all don't actually think Black and Brown people know what they're talking about; it tracks with all of the reflexive shitposts at the beginning of this thread and the random holdouts who keep coming in here to downplay the issue by saying that anyone who read the ad negatively to any degree was the real problem.

Folks might not consciously think this, but that's how they act, despite the fact that there is no reason to. There is literally no data that I've personally researched myself that somehow contradicts my general claim that we live in a world where white supremacy is a status quo, that we have somehow achieved racial parity in all matters. That's the truth of the matter. And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.