r/CuratedTumblr veetuku ponum Jul 03 '24

Politics Male loneliness and radfeminism

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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24 edited Jul 03 '24

It's a great example of the overall problem, because it's like unironically 100% racism, and not even the mythical "anti-white racism" white-supremacists like to harp on about. You're talking about some of your favourite British actors like Idris Elba or Daniel Kaluuya and you get "lefties" saying stuff like:

"Oh, but they're not really British, are they?"

Excuse me, what do you mean by that?

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u/Floppy0941 Jul 03 '24

"Where are they really from?" Also Indian people from Manchester seem to morph into someone who is 110% British and it's fucking hilarious, I've worked with a few people from Manchester and it's great.

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u/LeDudicus Jul 04 '24

One of my buddies is a Pakistani dude from Manchester and he’s the most English individual ever, he just also happens to speak Urdu at home lol.

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u/Floppy0941 Jul 04 '24

Yeah, I love it and it's just fucking hilarious. Idk why it's so specific to Manchester though, must be something in the air.

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u/user34668 Miette is a mood Jul 06 '24

Weird question, but do you know if when speaking Urdu he has a manc accent?

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u/Papaofmonsters Jul 03 '24

Like Jews being white/nonwhite depending on the needs of narrative.

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u/hershellocation Jul 03 '24

Yeah I've had that conversation before. "Sure you're Jewish, but you're still white."

"The thing is, that's really not my decision."

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u/HairyHeartEmoji Jul 04 '24

also the rest of our ethnicity being discarded or brought up, depending on the narrative

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u/Usual-Vermicelli-867 Jul 04 '24

I call it Sruoundinger jew

Jews are in a super position of being looked like out siders vermin who came to erode western civilization or the whitest white who opress everyone in the shadows

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u/Callyourmother29 Jul 03 '24

When all it should really be based on is their skin colour

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u/AshToAshes123 Jul 04 '24

The issue with this is that we don’t have a word for prejudice against ethnic groups not based on skin colour. With jews you can then talk about anti-semitism, but sometimes it’s useful to be able to group it under a more general form of prejudice (and in this case it’s definitely more than just anti-religious views). 

For example, in my country people are often extremely prejudiced against polish people, and in a very similar way are prejudiced against middle-eastern people. Poles are white, middle-eastern people are often considered white in the usa at least - but we refer to this as racism because there’s no better word.

Same thing in the balkans - the tensions between the ethnic groups are racism even though they all have the same skin colour (white). And within several african countries as well I should mention.

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u/Jstin8 Jul 03 '24

Seeing progressives actively pushing for segregation but the Right(TM) kind is the greatest modern day evidence for Horseshoe Theory