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Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

icantfindaname posted:

It's not especially fluid though, it means 'Caucasian Christian or Jew'. Caucasian is a requirement, Muslim gets you booted. Subcontinental Indians or East Asians are never going to be considered white no matter how integrated into society they are, for example

Jews being white is incredibly contemporary. Whiteness is basically a designation of highest privilege in the American caste.

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Mel Mudkiper posted:

Jews being white is incredibly contemporary. Whiteness is basically a designation of highest privilege in the American caste.

I think we're just talking past each other about race vs ethnicity, I don't think we disagree. But this is a dumb discussion to begin with

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

icantfindaname posted:

I think we're just talking past each other about race vs ethnicity, I don't think we disagree. But this is a dumb discussion to begin with

fair enough

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


BigRed0427 posted:

One of the things from the right that is odd for me to hear is "We must protect White Culture". It strikes me as odd because even as a white person I have no clue what they are talking about. I can tell that the phrase "White Culture" Is a racist dogwhistle, maybe even a regular whistle, but I keep wondering what they define white culture as. In America at least you can pick out aspects of our culture and see where it originated from but I get the feeling that "White" Might mean not everything that is part of American culture.

This confusion also comes from a personal belief of mine about how American's celebrate cultures that are normally considered white like Germans, Irish, Italians, French, Polish (City I work has this huge Polish Community Center) We get specific about what white cultures we celebrate. St. Patrick's Day, Oktober Fest, Columbus Day(? I heard in some places thats treated as an Italian holiday) But if you just say you celebrate white culture people think Confederate flags and white hoods.

Someone smarter than me as well probably can give a more full description of how "Culture" Is defined for clarity sake.

Here you go. Since white culture is considered the default, value-neutral culture in the United States, and non-whites are encouraged/coerced/forced to assimilate into it, Americans are trained not to notice that it exists, it's just assumed that's the way people live. But it's actually the way white Americans live.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit

Luminous Obscurity
Jan 10, 2007

"The instrument you know as a piano was once called a pianoforte, because it can play both loud and quiet notes."

mastershakeman posted:

my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit

A red coat

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

mastershakeman posted:

my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit

pith helmet and a short, concise essay of apology scotch-taped to his lapel.

Schizotek
Nov 8, 2011

I say, hey, listen to me!
Stay sane inside insanity!!!

Deceitful Penguin posted:


When did the Slavs and southeners get to count as white? Next you'll be telling me that the asiatic finn is trying to claim whiteness

https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t809594/

Beautiful White Lady posted:

I agree, I think it is because of national socialism, where the nazis ideology considered slavs as subservient and subhuman.

AloneWolf posted:

Unfortunately we saw the results of that.
I hope we can learn from past mistakes and improve ourselves.

mastershakeman posted:

my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit

Well being daycare age he already has the teeth down I assume.

Schizotek fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jul 27, 2016

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


mastershakeman posted:

my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit

An ugly tracksuit and a Burberry cap.

xdrquinnx
May 5, 2002

Fishing. And lots of it.

Sarmhan
Nov 1, 2011

mastershakeman posted:

my son's daycare is going to have a dress your kid up in ethnic garb day and I have no idea what an English descent kid should wear other than a suit
Socks, sandals, shorts that are just a bit too short, and a sunburn.

Blue Star
Feb 18, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

BigRed0427 posted:

Another question I just realized. Has anyone found examples of weird anti Irish, Italian, some other group of white people that is still discriminated in back woods parts of the US today?

No. And they were never oppressed to begin with. Irish, Italians, etc. have always been considered white.

Blue Star
Feb 18, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Also, when I say that whites stole all of their culture, I'm talking about ALL OF IT, not just white American culture. This goes back centuries. The Greeks and Romans stole poo poo from the Egyptians. Philosophy, architecture, technology, everything. All through history. The Renaissance was started by stealing poo poo from Muslims. All those Italian paintings that everyone likes? Stolen. All that music? Stolen.

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmFTM4PlmI

upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

If you smash the living hell out of someone or a group of someones, the laws of combat say you're entitled to all their stuff. So no, not stealing.

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

Blue Star posted:

No. And they were never oppressed to begin with. Irish, Italians, etc. have always been considered white.

There's documented cases of lynchings of italians in the east at least.

Oh, you're a dumbass, okay.

Sarmhan
Nov 1, 2011

Blue Star posted:

Also, when I say that whites stole all of their culture, I'm talking about ALL OF IT, not just white American culture. This goes back centuries. The Greeks and Romans stole poo poo from the Egyptians. Philosophy, architecture, technology, everything. All through history. The Renaissance was started by stealing poo poo from Muslims. All those Italian paintings that everyone likes? Stolen. All that music? Stolen.
I don't think you know what stolen means, or understand how cultural transference works.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
It means about as much as black or Hispanic culture race is bullshit.

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


BigRed0427 posted:

Another question I just realized. Has anyone found examples of weird anti Irish, Italian, some other group of white people that is still discriminated in back woods parts of the US today?

A lot of Southern Baptists have beef with Catholicism which manifests itself in anti-Irish and anti-Italian sentiment.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Niel fergusson defined white culture as: " the good bits, the stuff i like and want to take credit for."

So there you go, op. Godbless.

Samog
Dec 13, 2006
At least I'm not an 07.

icantfindaname posted:

This is bullshit that gets repeated everywhere unfortunately. Irish were never considered nonwhite except as a joke. British political culture had very deepseated prejudice against Catholics because it saw them as agents of totalitarianism and absolutism. Scientific racist schemata tended to use language family as a guide to racial classification but even as a different linguistic group than Anglo-Saxons Irish were still considered Caucasian, aka White

generally when people say "the irish were not considered white" they are talking about noel ignatiev and not christoph meiners

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. - Benjamin Franklin

There you have it, in the words of a holy Founder; White Culture is English (and north west German) culture.

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
Where is the white culture in all these countries with an extreme majority of white people???

PostEldar
May 7, 2004

I'm in your area.
This is a typical white gathering.

:nws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24I-2RM0yu4 :nws:

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Lutefisk, which is why white culture must be destroyed.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Blue Star posted:

Also, when I say that whites stole all of their culture, I'm talking about ALL OF IT, not just white American culture. This goes back centuries. The Greeks and Romans stole poo poo from the Egyptians. Philosophy, architecture, technology, everything. All through history. The Renaissance was started by stealing poo poo from Muslims. All those Italian paintings that everyone likes? Stolen. All that music? Stolen.

Meanwhile the Egyptian hive mind sprung from its earthen womb fully formed.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Blue Star posted:

White people don't really have any culture. Everything was stolen from people with actual culture. Music, food, technology, everything.

I'm not sure I can call adopting agriculture because you were literally out competed and intermarried with the much more successful agrarian immigrants from the Levant stealing. More like getting your Mesolithic way of live over turned by introduction.

Also, Egypt stole barley and einkorn from Southwest Asia, along with several deities and an entire Intermediate Period dynasty.

Also, Egypt was not black, or white or anything. It was a multiracial nation by modern standards, and of no concern to the actual Ancient Egyptians. The Egyptian concept of race was based on what language you spoke, how you dressed and what gods you worshiped. Anyone could be Egyptian if you adopted Egyptian culture. It also worked the other way and you could be seen as Not Egyptian, even if you were born in the Nile Delta if you spoke the wrong language and worshiped the wrong gods. It's why the founder of Dynasty 25, Pharaoh Piye, was born the future king of Napata, capital of Kush, but got to be considered Egyptian because he did the right stuff after his conquest. It's also why, despite being born in Lower Egypt, later Egyptian historians saw Apepi of Dynasty 15 as a foreigner, of Hyksos blood and No True Egyptian.

KiteAuraan fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Jul 27, 2016

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

Blue Star posted:

Also, when I say that whites stole all of their culture, I'm talking about ALL OF IT, not just white American culture. This goes back centuries. The Greeks and Romans stole poo poo from the Egyptians. Philosophy, architecture, technology, everything. All through history. The Renaissance was started by stealing poo poo from Muslims. All those Italian paintings that everyone likes? Stolen. All that music? Stolen.

Were you molested by your Catholic father or something?

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
It's putting mayo on french fries, OP.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
White culture is flagelating oneself about how they have no culture so they can feel better about their privilege because hey at least they're not above self deprecation.

Mr. Gibbycrumbles
Aug 30, 2004

Do you think your paladin sword can defeat me?

En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style
cool thread.

I think white culture is whatever was on TV when my parents were young, and also things like christmas and maybe going to the pub.

-Mr. Gibbycrumbles, age 12 and a half.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
White culture is self-hating and privilege-checjing

Xibanya
Sep 17, 2012




Clever Betty
Saying whites have no culture is like saying men are the default sex. It seems like it doesn't exist because we're submerged in it. Incidentally "white" just means the dominant power group.

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
There is really no such thing as "White Culture" except as a code word racists from one country use to take credit for the accomplishments of another country because they're "both white". There are things like "American Culture" or "French Culture" etc. and many cultures share similarities with their neighbors. But all people everywhere are trained from birth to see their own culture as not-existing, they instead see themselves as just acting how humans do and other cultures are wearing funny hats, They do this all without realizing that the culture next door believes that it is they who have the funny hats and that their own hats are just how humans are. A good example of this is the suit and tie. In America that's just what people wear to be fancy, but in Asia that dress style was explicitly foreign and adopted to mimic foreign cultures.

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

sarmhan posted:

I don't think you know what stolen means, or understand how cultural transference works.

When you think about it, isn't all human culture stolen from the Homo sapiens idaltu?

throw to first DAMN IT
Apr 10, 2007
This whole thread has been raging at the people who don't want Saracen invasion to their homes

Perhaps you too should be more accepting of their cultures
"White culture" is hard to define because the "white" in it is superfluous.

gobbagool
Feb 5, 2016

by R. Guyovich
Doctor Rope
This is a dumb question, even by local standards. You knew though, it would bring all the self hatred out of the woodwork. American goons, sitting at a desktop computer running some variant of windows or MacOS, wearing jean shorts and possibly a fedora, sipping from a 96 ounce pepsi, listening to rock and roll, streaming over the internet, delivered over either cellular data or through cable modem, passing time while waiting to go see a movie, stating emphatically that there is no such thing as White Culture, is about the D&Dest montage ever.

gobbagool
Feb 5, 2016

by R. Guyovich
Doctor Rope

steinrokkan posted:

Meanwhile the Egyptian hive mind sprung from its earthen womb fully formed.

Correct. All non 'white' cultures were originalist in nature, and have never interacted with any other cultures. All cultural appropriation is a unique (white!) American evil, sort of like how this works;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcvexAXEjM

the punchline is:

I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.

tldr; evil didn't exist before white americans

jiggerypokery
Feb 1, 2012

...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

Don't know, but it is growing.

jiggerypokery fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jul 27, 2016

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

gobbagool posted:

Correct. All non 'white' cultures were originalist in nature, and have never interacted with any other cultures. All cultural appropriation is a unique (white!) American evil, sort of like how this works;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcvexAXEjM

the punchline is:

I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.

tldr; evil didn't exist before white americans

Isn't Stefan Molyneux the guy who insists keeping in social contact with anyone who doesn't ascribe to the non-aggression principle is an aggression against him, personally, and also that modern physics is a government conspiracy to steal money from him

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