We don’t need ragebait in this world.
False, also, this is literally in a community called shit post about shit posting. If you’re upset, you genuinely played yourself.
White guys make up a large chunk of the population. There are white guys that have some of the same problems that are harming minorities as well. Poverty, addiction, mental and physical health, inflation, an unfavorable jobs market, and so on.
They see a democratic party that is at best useless at addressing these problems, when they admit that they exist at all. At worst, they see a party that is dismissive and hostile to these concerns, and to them personally. In contrast, they see a republican party that is full of welcoming con artists who will happily tell them that all their problems spring from minorities.
Neither side is offering actual solutions, but republicans are acknowledging that the problems exist, even if they’re offering false solutions.
So white guys keep falling for con artists. No one else is offering them anything.
Fuck you bud, 10/10 bait
What on earth do you even mean, a shit post in a shitpost community? Wtf
Holy strawman
Hee hee hee
This tweet is going to be 11 years old very soon!
For the anniversary I wish she would tell us what movies her boyfriend possibly could have meant, and how she liked them.
Where do they get these people?!
Whose they and what people?
The ‘action movies only’ boyfriends…
Me
Boats sounds neat.
My posts usually get lots of upvotes and engagement. Figured I’d fuck with the average ratio today
Literally what shitposting is, by definition.
And you’ve done it once gain, Maestro. Well done.
Swear the followers of lemmyshitpost don’t know what a shitpost is. Like, at all. Ironically makes it the most freshest of places to do it.
Shitpost communities are fucking terrible because it’s either shitposts, which are like 50/50 on being good, or it’s a bunch of regular memes mixed with good shitposts that people upvoted.
I mean, at least it keeps it on the shit theme.
So long as the result is a bazillion comments with as many upvotes as downvotes on each, it’s a good shitpost. Bonus points if it captures those two cliche users that end up frustrating the hell out of each other as they strive to be first in a 20 comment head-to-head marathon that goes absolutely no where. All because some people take it seriously while others take it as a joke; minimal effort by OP.
This community seems to lean quite a bit toward people taking things seriously, or they simply don’t notice where they are before they unsheath their keyboards.
As a white guy, I have the kind of privilege that allows me enough space to realize that I’m sad. Hell, I could probably just walk up to a cop and tell them I’m sad, and they’d offer me some horrible, but well-meaning advice.
But when I mention my Judaism, something interesting might happen. Especially if I told them that my Zionist family lives in Israel. But the real excitement will start when I say “free Palestine.”
But the saddest part of all is that I could say nothing, and just be white, and no one will give a fuck. It’s mostly sad because I’m incapable of saying nothing.
That was quite the rollercoaster and I’ve got a complex bundle of sympathy and relating going on (as a kiwi, not the Zionism)
Why I left the left? I used to be a radical leftist, who believed in radical ideas like <most lukewarm liberal opinion> and <thing that is standard in Europe>, but then I went through <signs of cognitive decline> and also got falsely accused of rape after having sex with a drunken woman, so I became a moderate christian conservative who believes in <opinion considered theocratic by people with more than two brain cells>, <thing that would make Hitler blush>, and <literal nazi thing, but “extermination” is replaced with “removal from society”>.
Expressing what happens when libs go mad, as mad libs.
Seems legit
Two things can exist at once—life’s not that simple.
What do you mean?
I guess class divisions and racism towards Eastern Europeans in my country are imaginary then.
Two things can be true at once.
Two things can be true at once.
So Eastern Europeans are privileged and discriminated against in Western Europe at the same time? Whoa!
If that dragon didn’t want its tail tickled, it wouldn’t have sat there all coy-like with a screwdriver nearby. Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I saw a fork in the same room as an outlet.
Shut up and let me cry with my privilege already
No
That applies to white women as well
False
How? They have white previlege.
Who does?
White women
What about them?
They have white previlege
Women?
Men
- higher loneliness
- seen as dangerous by default
- higher mental illness
- worse academic performance
- higher suicide rates
- higher rates of homelessness
- less likely to get child custody in a divorce
- less support infrastructure
- are more likely to be dismissed when asking for help
- work more dangerous jobs
- higher workplace accident rate
- higher probability to be victim of a violent crime
- more likely to suffer from addiction (gambling, porn, substances)
- lower life expectancy
- higher incarceration rate
- more likely to be poor
Yes, but I think the point was the white part of “white men.”
I was “lucky” enough to have my privilege put in plain english during a job interview. I’m white and this guy literally says “it so hard to find a clean cut white guy for this job, I don’t want some Dominican walking into a customers store with our logo on.” If I was not white I would not have gotten that job.
But yes, as you say, I’m stuck working in a factory right now with shitty air quality, I’ve been single for almost a decade, have severe anxiety and depression, and am fairly poor. Still doesn’t mean I don’t have privilege for simply being white. :/
Big fucking yikes, they just said that out loud?
I’m in kinda the same boat, early 30s white guy, shitty job (truck driver), single, and so depressed and anxious that I’m currently on short term disability because of it.
I feel like the big problem with the discourse around white privilege is that most people misunderstand what it actually means. It doesn’t mean that everything is handed to you purely because of skin colour, and it doesn’t mean that things can’t be difficult. It just means that we get an unspoken, and often unconscious advantage over our racialized peers in our white-dominated society.
This is a good point to bring up. My friend who is far less educated and her husband have awful jobs compared to me, but because they have generational wealth they are much better off in life. They have homes, land, etc all because they were passed down. At the same time, they would rail against being called privileged, but they could sell that home for half a million dollars and never go into the debts or put in the work others have to just to have a roof over their heads.
Yes and you know what all us leftists say, “if you have any adversity it means you never had any privilege at all in the first place” very valid. Thank you for your contribution.
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He said, essentially, how could a Pakistani immigrant doing bicycle deliveries have more privilege than a white woman with a college education and stable office job. Teeeeeheeeeee
You sir can eat the fattest sloppiest bag of dicks your saggy cunt mouth has ever whored for.
What do you mean?
These are all true and factual, excellent job.
What is the source of these issues?
Maybe men should stop being so shitty to men, but more so they should definitely stop being so hostile and abusive to women.
Being sad that black people are in movies isn’t oppression
But what if I’m stupid or racist? Or both?
Is it even possible to be racist and not to be stupid? I understand the concept, but in practice it always seems like a package deal.
As a small child, when I first heard of the concept of racism, my first reaction was “they think all people of a certain race share the same brain? That’s stupid”. It’s a little more complicated than that but basically yeah, racists think people of the same race automatically share certain personality traits, which is pretty stupid. Notice how racists almost never think stereotypes about their own race are true. They know they themselves are an individual, not defined by race, but people of other races are somehow different.
Keep out… Baitin’
Master level
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