Fark Round Up Part Two:


2005-02-14 12:28:13 PM
felixecho

Oh, and for all you young-uns out there who ask why there is no white history month...Every month is white history month. I used to ask dumbass questions like that too. Pretend for a moment that you aren't white. Then look around for people that represent you. Then look around for any acknowledgement of your people in a positive fashion. Want to feel underrepresented? How about Latinos? Or Asians?I am still evolving and learning. But I finally see why something like Black history month, or the gay rainbow is needed. I look forward to becoming less of a dumbass as I get older. New perspectives make life exciting.

This is an example of a person learning and growing over the lifespan. White people- you can be like this guy if you stay in school and don't take meth.


2005-02-14 12:44:25 PM
lexslamman

A Definition of Whiteness:If you can trace your ancestry back to Europe, you are white. Stop arguing If you recieve an advantage NOT because of your socio-economic status, but because of the color of your skin, you are white .If you listen to country music, you are white If you find this conversation irrelevant, you are white If you have never endured mistrusting stares when you go out shopping, you are white If you have to ask what 'white' is, you are white Clear enough?

I disagree with the part about country music, what if some black guy has weird taste? Many members of other ethnic groups are part white.


2005-02-14 12:45:20 PM
Wahre

They should air Birth of a Nation...it's a good movie...or so i hear...from my friends....in the KKK....who are happy black history month is the shortest month of the yearand who hate jews...and honkies...like kanye west...who makes terrible music...or so i have unfortunately heard...and btw, felixecho, caucasians are a minority in Colorado.so it goes.

Is the last part why we get the OMG!!!! let's force white women to have babies mindset?


2005-02-14 12:59:21 PM
lexslamman

fine, GWShenlong05, here is a non-trolling definition of whiteness.White is an all-encompassing umbrella term for 'Americans of European Descent'. It does not matter if you are from Capetown, Katmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto, or Quito, if your ancestors are pasty and Euro-trash, then you are as white as can be.You could wear your pants around your thighs and a huge FuBu hoodie, if your ancestors are from Europe, you are white, my friend.Ironically, unlike 'black' people, who were umbrella'ed into a grouping that includes people from across the African continent, white people SELF APPLIED this moniker.So, all you white people who dislike being called white, remember that we did this to ourselves.Darn, racial prejudice is a mean little biatch, ain't it?

Why would a white person not want to be called white? They really seem to love the privleges it affords them. If you want to renounce your whiteness, people still might get confused.


2005-02-14 01:02:15 PM
KarmicHoax

lexslammanThanks for sharing, that's pretty ignorant. Rather ironic really.So it's perfectly okay to lump every single European ancestry into "white"; although each culture is different and has its own history.Oh, right, the whole double-standard thing. Gotcha.

I don't see why this girl is being such a whiny bitch. She gets PRIVLEGES based on this. If she wants to pull out her ethnic group fine, but she should get a clue.

2005-02-14 01:07:42 PM
lexslamman

KarmicHoaxSo it's perfectly okay to lump every single European ancestry into "white"; although each culture is different and has its own history.Of course it is okay in the American context. White people like me did it to themselves.When we lumped the people that we wanted to oppress into one convenient group, 'blacks' or 'coloreds' or 'negroes' or worse, we lumped ourselves in a group as well. You could call us 'whites' or 'crackers' or 'Eurotrash', but its all the same in the end. WE are all a bunch of stupid racist white people. That doesn't mean we wear white hoods or swastikas or burn crosses or hold lynchin's, it means that we have societally ingrained racism.Anytime one group applies a label onto another group, they should expect a similar label to be applied back on them. Socialized justice, my friend, socialized justice.


Well, I believe that white people can improve their racism by not acting stupid, but on the baseline, you're going to be racist. People have been telling you racist stuff for years and our society is racist- if you just go along with the flow, you're going to have a bit of that in you. You don't like it? You can improve yourself, but don't think you can sit on your ass and think you're all good.