I was taking part in the cheeky Twitter meme, #TipsForRacists, the other day, and I heard from a couple of White, um, let's see, what do I call them? Supremacists, sure, but too obvious - let's try cultural warriors - White cultural warriors who evidently feel that if one expresses views that are anti-racist, they are actually being anti-white. They even linked to a music video to illustrate their pointy headed thinking.
At first I thought they were kidding. After all, they wished me well in that last line, kind of. "This is tongue-in-cheek, right?" I asked.
Forgetting for a moment the semantic conundrum they put themselves in - if anti-racist=anti-white, then racist=white - they allege that people who are anti-racist want to destroy the white European race (whatever that is) and engage in a literal genocide of white people.
In their own words [emphasis theirs], "EVERY & ONLY white countries are told to destroy their race and cultures via MASS immigration & FORCED assimilation GENOCIDE."
Apparently, what these anthropological ignorants mean is, races that look different than white people seem to have their own global regions/countries, so why is it only white folks who "are told to destroy their race and cultures," and not have a country of their own?
Reich much?
I know you can't use logic with these people - it's a waste of grey matter - but I explained to them, anyway, that racial, cultural pride is fine; it's believing in racial purity that is racist. Had I had more characters, I would have added, "and believing your race makes you better than everyone else, that is racist."
But I don't think that would have bothered them, because if anti-racist=anti-white, and racist=white, then being happy to be white equals being happy to be racist.
Have a nice week, racists.
Check out my blog post about racism and Ferguson, on proseandthorn.net.