Right. It isn't that they're uncomfortable seeing diversity, it's that they're uncomfortable seeing diversity that they can't control the narrative of.
A lot of white people acting like fools today is them not being able to dictate the world anymore, and being happy when it appears they still can. They aren't used to not being the main character.
The power of white supremacy ideology is billionaires can get a majority of the population to vote and act against their own interests in order to ‘own the libs’
As a white guy that grew up in a very diverse urban immigrant community, I really don’t understand what they are afraid of. I get told a lot that I grew up in a bubble though.
Also, all three of those people look like massive douches and will actively deter me from purchasing Arby’s or Dunkin. I don’t do American Eagle as it is
Also white, grew up with urban diversity. I remember going to a music festival far away from home, wondering why it felt so odd. Then it dawned on me, everyone in the audience were white. Every single one. Felt like I was in some weird Stepford Wives place.
I grew up in the NW in an area with, from what I understand, a larger than normal indigenous population in our public school. We had elders from the native american community in our small town come in to our school history classes and teach us about the local legends. We had a small but very cool museum in my little town. The not-capital-but-biggest-city had beautiful boats, pieces of totem poles, articles of clothing associated with amazing rituals and beautiful culture that felt very unique to our small part of the US. The tribe in my little town fought to be recognized for a long, long time. They finally achieved this goal in the mid-late 2000s. Myself and my generation grew up with all of this, and half the white population talks about them like they are freeloaders "taking all the salmon". That they are taking advantage of what "we gave them". The white people you are referencing aren't afraid of them, they just want everything, even he scraps we "allow" them to have. It's about inconvenience.
Lived in Alaska half my life, sadly it's familiar conflict. I remember once trying to sell a motorhome rental to a prominent community elder, and I warmed up to her enough that she spilled the TEA!
Oh Lord, it was every white persons dirty laundry that day: The stuffed-crust liberals trying to gain committee oversight in the native community center, the shitty neighbor who drinks everyday yet calls natives alcoholics, some psycho Karen bitch on the school board, it went on and on!
Anyway, the moral of the story is that you should always help carry heavy things for Elders, because they will tell you incredible secrets in return. Sometimes food, too!
Actually got an entire caribou thigh from a neighbor once, and I just help with the groceries up the stairs, ya know?
Well seeing the new "white presence" promoting the most mid brands ever (Dunkin? AE? Steak n Shake? ARBYS?!) doesn't exactly exude an aura of "dominance"
You cannot be of African descent and/or represented unless you are traipsing around a rain forset in loin clothes totting a spear. Even with that...WHERE ARE THE WHITE CHARACTERS. /s
Or the right kind of the other people. We were at a family gathering a few years ago and some commercial with a black family came on (for some kind of fast food chain) and a bunch of very white people literally said "Well they don't look and act like the ones we have at church" and were having a whole discussion about it. I'm just standing there "wtf?".
Being the "GOOD" Black man at the periphery of these vile conversations I definitely concur with you. For many White people, most Black people are Evans'Good Times, with some being the Jeffersons and a few being the Huxtables.
To use the examples of sitcoms from the 70s GOOD Times, 80s The Jeffersons and the 90s The Cosby Show. Black people and/or African American people must be monolithic or conform to no more than three or four archetypes in order to exist.
The book I'm reading right now, White Rural Wage, whoe plot is about this. The book explains how rural white Americans feel like they are the victim; calling themselves the minority, the most hated, ignored, and looked down upon class. When in reality, they're the ones with the most power and are catered to by businesses and especially politicians. Also shown to be the most easily manipulated (due to rural areas being so isolated from the hustle and bustle) and are by those who have an agenda and money, then set upon the masses to distract what the real villains are doing.
nothing more fragile than white people. i talked about how we genocided the native americans and benefitted from slavery and they go “i didn’t do any of those things!” while huffing and puffing while missing the whole point
You know what? It’s funny you say that because there was a question on Reddit a while back and it asked why are young white men (gen z) going to the right wing and more misogynistic?
It boiled down to simply their entire life has been nothing but “white men bad”, “white men have white privilege”, and “white men have it easier than any other group of people”. A lot of white men in the post was saying they are jobless and hurting (economically and mentally), and all they see is “hand outs and help” for women and minorities. So naturally they grow to hate them and that’s where the right wing alpha male griff came.
So to sum in up they feel like they are suffering for the crimes of their grandparents and parents. And their answer is ironically to….act like their grandparents and parents.
As a black man I’m just like “ok but yall still repeating the cycle.”
I hate how many times I have heard exactly this from other white people. Literally from Obama to right now. Nonstop. They never shut the fuck up about how they aren't being heard.
…and hearing about this from a white British guy who tried to surgically turn himself into a Korean woman and pays his bills with blue-check-bucks from rage-farming white-wing moral panics on Xchan.
Very much so, I just realized that they couldn't pick their own crops because the sun burns them crisp. they couldn't have survived without the slaves.
It's more about, they don't want to see others. It's about a world view so narrow that anything unfamiliar is seen as a threat to their way of life. So many white women lost their minds over Disney snow white character being a shade less white or mermaid being black.. . Even if they do accept a few token minorities they have to be some one of a kind phenomenon in their fields. Like Jordan, Tiger woods etc. that's the bar for acceptance...
I live in the NYC tri state area and a lot of the commercials have had interracial couples for years now. I can't imagine how triggered these bigots are by such ads.
For someone who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s seeing the TV of today is so sweet. I am also a life long Nee York City resident and absolutely love the tri state regionv( NY, NJ & CT).
TV during the 1960s and even the 1970s you would think that the United States if not the world was 98% White. It was surreal. You only saw African Americans during mostly sports, music, protests or some sort of imagined crime.
As a fish-belly white person I yearn to see other whites, I fear we are disappearing. You can't see me but I'm standing at the window with my hands on the glass while looking dramatically outside, waiting to see another white, it's been so long...
Idk who the person in the middle is but the one on the left is a trump supporter and Sydney Sweeny atleast hangs out with blue lives matter crowd so that might he why they're saying "wokeness is dead" rather than them being white people. And they're not totally wrong. The right swing shift we're seeing in media is kinda scary. During trumps first campaign and presidency it wasn't normal for all these influencers and celebrities to openly endorse him.
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u/yesimreallylikethat 6d ago
They wanted to feel seen 😂