Club Jacobin

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I’m sorry, but THIS isn’t racist? ‘WHITE HIPSTERS NOT ALLOWED’. If you replace it with any other race, THAT is racist, but if you put white, then SOMEHOW it isn’t racist! And whites just have to be okay with that. Sorry. This pisses me off. Equality means to be EQUAL, NOT ‘EVERYONE ELSE GETS ALL THE BENEFITS AND LEAVES THE REST WITH THE SCRAPS.’ This is NOT okay, and THIS IS RACIST. 

Please stop talking about something you don’t understand.

If you would like me to help you understand, I will do so tomorrow because right now it’s my bedtime.  But for now… please, stop.

Wait, wait, wait.

In what delusional world do POC get ‘all the benefits,’ and white people get, ‘the scraps?’

WHAT benefits? WHAT scraps?

Are you fucking kidding, here?

It’s racist to specificy race with a ‘get out’ or similar such message. Regardless of what the race is. Racism isn’t about privilage, status, etc. It’s about *disliking and discriminating against a race of people*. Sexism is about disliking/discriminating against *any given gender*. Ageism is about disliking/discriminating against *younger or older people*.

Prejudice and intolerance, regardless of age, sex, creed, color, etc is bad.

Assuming I agreed with your first statement, which I don’t, my question was purely about the somehow baffling notion that the world is a playtoy for POC, who get all the good stuff while poor unfortunate disempowered white people get the ‘scraps.’

Does that sound like reality to you?

Bolding is my own.

Can we take a minute to examine that statement?  Racism isn’t about privilege or status?

I just…the message in the flier itself is about gentrification and the harm it can do to neighborhoods.  And yet all someone can see is “OMG, YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE!”  THAT?  THAT’S FUCKING PRIVILEGE, RIGHT THERE. When you can ignore the actual problem in favor of claiming some kind of imagined oppression.

Not feeling like making any response to this commentary. Just wanted to say that I especially appreciate the drawings here.