Sometime circa 2007 or so some guy on another forum (music forum of course) on Columbus Day decided instead to label it "White People Suck Day" and we got a 300+ post thread of people basically posting long rants with racist slurs like "cracker" about how whites are so terrible despite the fact that probably every single person participating in it was white.
This is a good thing because...?
Self-depreciation and the ability to self-criticize is quite needed.
I mean, any intelligent human being can be self-deprecating. What we are seeing instead is complete detachment. In a...
sense, it's that guy from the Newroom bashing Republicans while maintaining "credibility" since he's identified as one. If a group of African-Americans or Hispanics did it, such would be treated as, well, senseless identity politics. What this produces instead is not credibility, but just confusion. These poor souls who are in this... "movement" with you are not making fun of people they see as themselves. They are making fun of what they think "white" means: suburban, Republican, middle class, racist, conformist, yadda yadda yadda. Nevertheless, if these guys are correct, then they themselves are benefiting from all of these injustices. Thus, they are only in a position to get away with this because of their privilege. Or whatever. I have no idea where I'm going with. It's just purely nonsensical. Actually make fun of something you identify with: your made up religion, for example. Or the lack of musicianship in the things you listen to. You get my point.
