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friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

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beardedrebutterofafkar:

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beardedrebutterofafkar:

stopsuggestingusernamesforme:

Theses signs were put up around my college campus on Halloween night for the second year in a row. If you find this thinly veiled white supremacist rhetoric to be positive or acceptable in anyway, then unfollow me. If you care more about assuaging your white guilt than about creating and maintaining an environment where people of color can feel safe, then unfollow me. If you are uncertain as to why this propaganda is problematic, then I encourage you to educate yourself and open up dialogue with the people these signs directly affect. Black and brown people, be safe. White people, we need to listen and be respectful. These are tumultuous times, and we must not be afraid to take action.

What is wrong with being white? Are you saying that you hate people based on their race? Because that’s racist.

These signs were a part of a reactionary white supremacist movement. You could have learned this from a simple google search. Educate yourself before you talk shit.

They were not.

A group of people on one of the 4chan boards got together and held a discussion. One anon proposed that anything said which was even remotely positive about white people would be viewed as racism. The others countered that unless it was an overtly supremacist statement it would go unnoticed.

So they brainstormed for a few days, eventually landing on a completely innocuous message, neutral, the milk of statements about white folks, “it’s ok to be white” and posted these messages around the world one night.

The next morning hate speech alerts were sent out by campus and city administrations and police, proving the first anon right.

Basically, you were a subject in a social experiment meant to determine if racism against white people exists. You helped prove it does if you view “it’s ok to be white” as hate speech, which you obviously do.

It makes me truly sad to see white people so abused they just take the abuse in stride and pretend they aren’t victims of racism. You are.

If these signs said “it’s ok to be black” they would be met with “of course, hashtag black girl magic”.

If “It’s okay to be white” is racist then so is “Black lives matter”

You can’t say one is and one isn’t without showing your bias, it’s why the simplistic statement is so genius.

This is one of those instances where saying something so basic and obvious that isn’t worth saying makes people feel incredibly uncomfortable when it is said aloud for some reason to the point of reaction.

Like imagine walking around campus and seeing a bunch of fliers posted up saying “It’s okay to breathe the air.” You’d probably be thinking to yourself “W-was it not okay before? What does that mean? What’s going on? Is the air toxic? Should I be worried?”

So a part of me understands the absurdity of these posters being put up, but at the same time the reaction is unwarranted.

I think the reaction says a lot about why this needs to be said, there are people who don’t agree with this statement, it’s not basic and obvious anymore.

On one hand, IOTBW was spearheaded by /pol/, which (seems to) largely consist of white supremacists. It isn’t a stretch to say that white supremacy was a motivating factor for many people who decide(d) to post IOTBW posters.

English is a slippery language that relies heavily on context. When a seemingly odd phrase exists in printed form with no explicit context, it gets followed to the source. The source was clearly /pol/, therefore despite there being literally (l i t e r a l l y) nothing wrong with the phrase, the context (c o n t e x t) of the source poisons it, and makes it implicitly a white supremacist phrase.

On the other hand, they receive(d) the exact reaction and attention for this that they want(ed), especially in places like Berkeley where there are plenty of loose screws.

I wish there was a more cogent moral other than demonstrating an example of horseshoe theory, but that is pretty much it. Don’t fall for 4chan’s tricks.

I kept my mouth shut for a year, but the endless articles of leftist media and dumb OPs like this trying to spin it as some evil white supremacist superhoax are getting retarded. It’s just like @beardedrebutterofafkar said. There was nothing racist or supremacist about it. There is no underlying goal except gently tickling anti-white racists just enough to get them to splerg out so that normal people witness and question why they so inherently and reflexively hate white people - by using a most neutral statement in a society where anything that barely comes close to positivity for whites is seen as hatespeech.

Here is my ban I got for the thread. I got the idea after seeing this incident. The full thread is archived on archive.is somewhere (I posted it on doublechan, not 4chan btw). It shows the entire motivation behind IOTBW

Not only did it have the exact effect that I hoped, it turned out to be something so unconventional that the left still can’t grasp they’re doing what evil nazis like me want them to do. You’re still shooting yourself in the foot. A full year later.

So thank you. Because the fact that you were strung along like a bunch of puppets and did exactly what we wanted confirmed that we aren’t insane conspiracists. It sadly proves that we understand you, your views and way of thinking all too well. Well enough get you to expose yourself through just 5 words on a piece of paper. The goal wasn’t even your reaction, but normal people’s reaction to the reaction we hoped you’d have, and you gave that to us.

Wow

(Source: beesblease, via dangerbooze)