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PMarth2002 posted...

Because they're trying to spin a narrative where white culture is being attacked and will be erased over time. That sort of thing reinforces the idea of them feeling attacked.

Yep, same fundie bullshit behind "the War on Christmas". I see it as a response to increased scrutiny of racism, by yelling "we're just as oppressed as they are!" and making the conversation all about them.

Everyone talks about Ramadan, but we're not allowed to talk about Christmas any more! Black people can make their own holiday to celebrate their blackness, but God forbid a white person say that they're proud to be white! That sort of shit. When there's a multitude of ways to celebrate your cultural roots as a white person that doesn't boil down to the color of your skin. You know damn well the implications of "celebrating whiteness" thanks to white supremacist groups, and if it honestly bothers someone that much that they can't "celebrate whiteness", you would think that the point of contention would be towards those white supremacist groups for associating the good-faith concept* of "loving the skin you're in" and using it as a smokescreen for talking about racial genocide.

*assuming this is being used as a good-faith concept in this context, for the sake of argument

But when the topic comes up with someone who feels strongly about the subject, it's pretty much always PC culture's fault. It's cultural diversity pushing different cultures to the forefront and "making it shameful to be white". It's "Happy Holidays", including Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and any other wintertime holiday together, being a secular plot to erode the cultural significance of Christian holidays. It's pushing back against an increased focus on other cultures, punching down to put "the norm" back on top. To a crusty, ignorant white person, it's a combined effort between black people, indian people, arabic people etc. to undermine "whiteness" - not pushing back against German culture, or Swiss culture, or Balkan culture, "an attack on whiteness" as a whole. It's a concerted effort by other cultures and races to "undermine Christmas". It's not the fault of neo-nazis that "celebrating whiteness" has strong racist connotations attached to it - it's other racial groups making an effort to persecute "the whites".

TL;DR it's a bunch of self-centred posturing being pushed by racists and dressing it in terms that makes ignorant people feel safe.

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