this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
73 points (63.9% liked)

Political Memes

12259 readers
2001 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

1) Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

2) No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

3) Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

4) No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

5) No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whiteness itself is proximity to power.

That's why it can change, like for Italians and Irish

[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The discrimination is on the basis of race. That doesn't make it right, that doesn't mean that's the actual reason they're doing it in their minds. You're adding unnecessary context to the base word instead of adding the appropriate expansions to the base word to make it fit the desired context.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No it's just that words can sometimes mean different things depending on context. It's not "unnecessary" when you're actually trying to understand the long term effects of 400+ years of slavery, oppression, and atrocities.

The only kind of people who find it "unnecessary" are the kind of people with no actual genuine interest in grappling with our horrific racist past which is the only way we could ever possibly begin to repair that shit. They'd rather just ignore it and pretend it never happened. Or immediately get weirdly defensive because "they didn't personally do slavery".

[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

I have no idea why you're trying so hard to talk about anything except the literal actual thing we're talking about. This conversation is over.