Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors

• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go to the wrong parts of Brazil or South Africa.

  What do you you mean "wrong parts"? 🤨

  It's an idiotic thing to state that white people are not and have never been oppressed.

  White (an invented and morphose social category predicated on anti-Blackness) people have never been oppressed for being white.

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  • norbert@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    White (an invented and morphose social category predicated on anti-Blackness) people have never been oppressed for being white.

    Imagine actually believing this.

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine actually believing this.

      I don't have to; I know from personal experience what it's like to be right and correct. I recommend you abandon you current beliefs and try not being wrong yourself.

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      • norbert@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don't have to; I know from personal experience what it's like to be right and correct. I recommend you abandon you current beliefs and try not being wrong yourself.

        Maybe one day you'll wake up and realize that you don't know everything and are not always "right and correct." One day Maybe you'll realize that others have lived experiences that are different than yours, but maybe not.

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      • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you know where the term “slave” comes from?

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The concept of “white” as a race dates back to WW2, at most. Before then, being from France was as ethnically important a distinction as being from England, Spain, Germany, Ireland, or China. Due to the long history of conflict amongst European nations, there was no unified sense of race due to something as simple as skin color.

      When the Irish immigrated to the US, they were considered equivalent to black people by Americans and competed for the same jobs.

      The British, inspired by the American ethnic cleansings of the Native American tribes, attempted to ethnically cleanse the Irish from Ireland for their land. That’s what the famine in Ireland actually was. There was a scarcity of potatoes, but otherwise there was plenty of food - so long as you were British. In fact, there’s a statue of a Native American in northern Ireland commemorating the Native tribes’ aid during the famine, because they recognized what the British were doing and were one of the few groups to send supplies to the Irish. Nobody else cared, because they were Irish, not (insert country here).

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      • norbert@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The concept of “white” as a race dates back to WW2, at most.

        Wow I'll make sure to tell all my black friends, I'm sure that'll endear me to them.

        When the Irish immigrated to the US, they were considered equivalent to black people by Americans and competed for the same jobs.

        Well, this is just completely false, you're completely disconnected from reality. Irish were never blocked from whites-only schools were they? Irish people were never subject to interracial marriage laws afaik. Were any Irish ever entirely excluded from being able to immigrate to the U.S.? I know it's popular among certain groups to pretend certain Europeans faced the same disadvantages as formerly enslaved African-Americans but frankly it's incredibly insulting and tone deaf as fuck.

        Theory is fine you guys but you need to actually go out into the world and interact with people sometimes.

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      • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The concept of “white” as a race dates back to WW2, at most.

        It goes back farther than that, but it is a social and legal category people have sued in attempt to be considered as.

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  • rutellthesinful@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Barbary slave trade?

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Barbary slave trade?

      Read through that entire article and didn't read one word about anyone being oppressed for being white.

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