Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #7A74
Agreed.

@Background Pony #7A74
Russia is white and christian and conservative, so GOP loves them, and it’s hard for the average dumbass in the US to care.

Israel is treated as an island of western, white civilization in a sea of barbarous brown muslims, basically a US colony trying to spread civilization in the middle east.

Ukraine is (mostly) a democracy. Can Israel even be classified as one anymore? Especially given the average Israeli is much less liberal than the average Ukrainian is (which is saying a lot given the state of Eastern European politics).

@Dustcan
I feel like part of it is them clinging to the idea that Russia is manly/strong and refusing to accept reality, like the people refusing to accept that Trump is a criminal and terrible buisnessman.

As if I needed reason to not trust Musk.

@The Smiling Pony
I’ve never heard Israel even remotely described that way. At most, Jesus is depicted white when that was very much unlikely.

@SleepySteve
You say that, but the republicans find tyranny more appealing that democracy.

They’ve given up on democracy ever since black people got the right to vote.

@SleepySteve
I think the party wasn’t around back than.

From what I’m gathering about all the “outrage” over this “DEI” thing that a lot of anti-woke people are complaining about, this just seems like another case of them going “we want to say we hate minorities without actually saying we hate minorities”

That’s exactly what it is.

They ran out of steam on the “CRT” party wagon, so “DEI” is the replacement.

@Background Pony #1F81
@SleepySteve
@BlitztheDragon
Aren’t there genuinely “woke” people who are being actually racist to white people, though? And putting diversity quotas ahead of skill requirements?

Yeah, Jesus wasn’t white. In fact, I don’t know if there were even any white people in that area at the time…

@Wiimeiser
Yes. DEI, in any shape or form, is literally based on putting things ahead of skill requirements. It is a doomed idea from the start.

@Background Pony #1F81
The Key Bridge incident in Baltimore sort of made it obvious. A majority-black city has a black mayor, and they call it “DEI”.

@Wiimeiser
One extreme doesn’t justify another extreme. And most here calls out such things because racism is racism, no matter what the color/nationality is.

@Background Pony #06D2
The damage is already done. Only thing keeping this thing from spiraling into WWIII is if Biden cut all aid to Israel and disassociated himself with Bibi, which a) would be extremely out-of-character for Biden, and b) permanently splinter his already-fragile voter coalition he needs to win re-election.

Are standards being lowered?

Just like the vast majority of right wing culture war BS, the actual amount of times where their imagined worst case scenario occurs is greatly overestimated compared to the effort they put in trying to make it seem like it’s a world-ending threat looming on the horizon.

Yes, I do think there are places in which the moment it’s found out that you’re a Caucasian male your chances are essentially close to 0%. Those are usually due to someone in HR being way too concerned about their company being ousted on social media with one of those “Oops, all white” images taken during group photos.

There are also colleges and university, places with a known concern for… shall we say social media-driven astroturfing attempts, specifically due to the vast majority of their clientele being what can best be described as “terminally online” and trying to put to use what they’ve learned in class without the actual knowledge of how things work outside of their campus.

Those are the most common cases of “white racism”, and they are in no way, shape or form as detrimental, prevalent or persistent as your usual case of discrimination based on skin color going the other way. While I do think it’s going too far to claim that anti-white racism straight up doesn’t exist or should immediately be discredited, it is difficult to take seriously anyone trying to bring up that infinitely smaller issue as leverage, compensation or even justification against the proven concept of racism against someone with even a little bit of melanin in their skin, to the point of it having gone systemic centuries ago and normalized in culture and society.

Today is the deadline for Trump’s bond.

If he fails to post it, then NY will have no choice but to grant another extension for an even lower amount.

The problem with the people crying about “white racism” is that the majority of them also believe there’s a grand plot to have non-white immigrants gradually breed them out of existence.

Take a look at the replies to this tweet to see what I mean. (WARNING: You will cringe.)

@Dustcan
Watch as that exactly happens because those in charge of this are spineless

I hadn’t brought up the co-opting of “white racism” into white supremacy discourse specifically because it would’ve made it much harder to defend it being allowed to be brought up in the first place.

Even comparing “white racism” with racism by itself can be argued to be a sign of systemic racism, as that would imply they’re even remotely close to being comparable with one another, implying that the impact of the former being greatly amplified and the latter being EXTREMELY lessened is the new standard.

As it is, you could do a John Oliver-style bit trying to compare both “accurately”, feature a graph with one massive vertical line indicating how many lives have been affected by racism, then zooming in for a whole ass minute just so the tiny dot indicating the lives affected by “white racism” can be distinguished.

@Poison Trail
Yep, those occurences of “white racism” are usually instrumentalized (when not outright fabricated) by conservatives as part of their greater DARVO strategy.

New numbers from that NYT poll yesterday. I think Biden might have a voter amnesia problem…

@SleepySteve
I dunno. Prices have been increasingly rise under Biden, and he has not stopped saying that they are doing better.

@Zaknel
Inflation is a never-ending thing, especially when terrible businessmen care more about pinching pennies than a healthy economy.