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@RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @pixelatedbrat @EndlessWario Of course, as a fellow PoC of COURSE your opinion matters. It would also matter if you were white, but only so long as you arent being rude and using race to try to invalidate someone else.
@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario Saying that there is no "white culture" is in no way harmful to white people, it's just true. Literally the only thing that ties whites together in the US is white privilege born out of white supremacy.
@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario I never claimed it was harmful to white people. I only claimed it is a false statement.
@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario I'm beginning to think you're not a real doctor.
@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario What my fediverse credentials arent convncing.?
By the way for the record this is how I and other admins (you know the racists you keep talking about) have greeted every single minority or LGBT person who has joined us (and we have a HUGE community here of both).
https://qoto.org/@freemo/100577364473627973
@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario No, it was your apparent problem with reading comprehension, not your credentials. I never called anyone a racist at all.
@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario I am not refering to you specifically, only the crowd of people with pitch forks. You have apparently taken sides with that collective.
@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario I'm not calling anyone racist, I'm just saying you're wrong. There is no overarching "white culture" except white supremacy. White ppl in the US have individual ethnic inheritances that make it possible to celebrate their family backgrounds, unlike the descendants of the enslaved and colonized populations.
@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario For a more concrete example travel around europe and ask them versious questions about their culture things like: What holidays do you celebrate? What are the proper codes of ettiquette when addressing others?etc. You will quickly find that most European nations have very similar answers to these questions.
Then go do the same for black culture, or Native american culture. You will find there are a lot of similarities internal to those cultures as well. But compared to each other the similarities are less the farther the geographical distance the cultures happen to be spaced from each other (usually).
The pattern of shared culture becomes very evident very fast and it comes obvious whites, blacks, or any other group, do in fact have a shared culture among them.
@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario Well of course each region has its own unique hard ships. That doesnt seem to be a valid counter argument to me.
As for them not identifying as "white"before recently I tend to agree. They had different names for different groups and sub groups throughout history, to various levels of inclusive. Regardless that doesnt change the fact that they have shared heritage and shared culture due to their physical proximity to each other.
@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario No. You need to brush up on your European history. Colonization, war and genocide have had their own impacts on each specific European region, and several historically oppressed ethnic groups/nations have only recently been seen as "white" at all. I mean yeah if you want to say Dutch is basically German, fine. But I promise you won't be able to carry that into the Balkans.