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 Peregrine wrote:
 Crablezworth wrote:
 Peregrine wrote:
 Crablezworth wrote:
 Peregrine wrote:
As for the OP, of course it's working, because it's a racist thing to say and the people doing it know this perfectly well. I'm sure "4chan is a cesspool with little redeeming value" is a true statement, but I don't know why this subject is considered worthy of a thread.


So it's not okay?


Not going to take that bait. You know perfectly well this is about more than the literal definition of those words.


And you know perfectly well it's okay to be white



If the posters had said something more controversial like "colonialism is okay" I'd get your point, but it's not anyone's problem if someone projects that on to an innocuous statement. And as 4chan has shown, they'll clearly take the bait.


Context matters, and it isn't innocuous.


So being white is "noxious, harmful, or poisonous"?

noc·u·ous
ˈnäkyo͞oəs/Submit
adjectiveliterary
noxious, harmful, or poisonous.

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You are stretching it too far Crablezworth.

I can say "Yeah, black ones are horrible, they shouldn't exist", talking about Female Wedding dresses, and it is all fine. Use that same phrase in other context and... yeah.

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 Crimson Devil wrote:

Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

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Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.

 
   
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 jhe90 wrote:
Thr fact they managed to trigger such a over reaction with a simple words, words that

"its OK to be white"

There making the administration, the colleges, the police look pretty damn stupid.

There basically not saying anything much and they turning it into somthing massive. There making themselves look like total idiots.
while the reaction is a bit much, lets also not make it out like this is something clever or biting.

When something like this gets posted, it's done in a way and place intended to draw a reaction like this. The message is not innocent, it's implying that there's some sort of prevailing narrative that says it's not ok to be white, and when people see through it and treat it as the provocation it is, then that reaction is used as evidence of hypocrisy to fuel e-hype and further e-outrage. The ultimate point isn't really about reverse discrimination or hypocrisy, it's about making people upset for its own sake to fuel the other end of the outrage machine.


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4chan is a great place to keep it.

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