Quote (Thor123422 @ 31 Mar 2019 02:05)
objectively, no sane person can disagree with the statement "black lives matter". by sensationalizing it and interpreting it as a racist dog whistle, you play into the hands of actual white supremacists. criticizing this statement necessarily implies the subtext of "black lives DON'T matter". this will give ordinary, non-racist blacks the feeling that conservatives and whites are out to get them, which will push them towards black supremacists and their narrative that nowadays it is actually the whites that are oppressing them
unlike BLM, "it's ok to be white" is not a social movement with visible leaders and a clear political agenda, it's just an internet meme. one with malicious intent, but still nothing more than a meme. if it was a proper political movement, one could of course attach these words to the movement and its agenda.
Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ 31 Mar 2019 02:02)
Nah, by correctly pointing at its history and pointing out the ways that its used by white supremacists to signal each other, brazen white supremacists get to be torn down and exposed for what they are, sorry.
You can feel free to have your feelings hurt by that, but the average white person can see through that shit just as easily as everyone else. The idea that there are hordes of people who are clucking their tongues in disbelief at the racist left because they call out an obvious dog whistle is a fantasy.
the vast majority of people will never have heard of this meme or its context, so unless you have discernible racists using it in public as some sort of "Heil Hitler"-substitute, leftists being triggered by those words will just cause confusion and dismissal.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 30 2019 07:14pm