a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by Devac
Devac  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics

And let's be fair: most Poles aren't fond of Ukrainians, Belarusians or Russians (which is mutual). You really don't need other races to have hate and discrimination.

Also, that's a surprisingly insightful strip coming from someone who for years kept mentioning Poland only as the place whence the thieves come.





user-inactivated  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    You really don't need other races to have hate and discrimination.

Accurate.

    Also, that's a surprisingly insightful strip

In America, we call this 'being woke.' /s

    coming from someone who for years kept mentioning Poland only as the place whence the thieves come.

Yeah, she served this up as an explanation in a later comic.

"Not necessarily because it was a Pole who stole the thing in the first place, but because that’s where a lot of people go to get rid of their stolen goods"

I have no grounds for grasping its validity, so I'm willing to read any insight you have.

Devac  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    "Not necessarily because it was a Pole who stole the thing in the first place, but because that’s where a lot of people go to get rid of their stolen goods"

    I have no grounds for grasping its validity, so I'm willing to read any insight you have.

I guess there's a degree of truth to it, but all I have is anecdotal evidence.

user-inactivated  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm willing to settle for 'no opinion' 'til we have something solid to share with one another. :)

tacocat  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Americans have no concept of this now. So a sentient glob of sunless tanner can get elected to President by scaring whites folks with a picture of the same MS-13 member over and over

Devac  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was made aware of it rather unpleasantly some months ago. What for me was innocuous question got me banned on some subreddit for 'spewing alt-right rhetoric'. It was something along the lines of "why are you so opposed to white people getting financial help in college? poverty is poverty."

tacocat  ·  2100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    poverty is poverty

Yeah...

At some point the Republicans realized if you can make poor people hate other poor people you can get rid of things like unions and swaths of social safety net.