> The slogan has been spread by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and racist groups including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
> A report by the ADL states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the phrase being spotted in 2005 and the slogan being used by a member of the United Klans of America.
Sure, you can say it's ok to be white but perhaps if you pick a fairly well known white supremacist dog whistle, you should expect people to (fairly) tar you with the same brush.
It's a common tactic to hijack innocent looking language, use it internally, and then as soon as someone notices and says "hey be careful about people using the milk and frog emoji on twitter" they get suckers like you in.
> On top of everything else, the phrase “It’s okay to be white” actually has a fairly long history in the white supremacist movement. While far from the most common white supremacist slogan, it was in use enough that white power music band Aggressive Force even used the phrase as the title of one of its songs—a song that dates back at least to 2001, if not earlier. ADL has tracked white supremacist fliers featuring the phrase “It’s okay to be white” as long ago as 2005. In 2012, a member of Ku Klux Klan group United Klans of America actually even used the hashtag #IOTBW on Twitter.
Speak for your own cultivated lack of empathy and situational awareness. Most of us are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.
All three of you have so much free time on your hands and such compelling priorities, that you each went to the effort of creating your own green account, just to make a single idiotic statement each defending racism.
To "xncYCa," "pKaqzd," and "olwq": Is this the job you're all paid to do? Do you three sit next to each other at work in St Petersburg? Or do you all have to share the same chair? Get a real job, professional troll.
> completely generic phrases are being eliminated from the allowed speech
But that's not happening. Anyone can say "it's ok to be white" wherever and whenever they want - as evidenced by the fact that PEOPLE DO.
What's happening is that other people are going "Hmm, well, if he's happy to use a known white supremacist phrase, we're happy to lump him in with the white supremacists."
But now the first bunch of people and their defenders are complaining about the second bunch judging them on their actions. Which is HILARIOUS.
(Generally because the first bunch don't agree with freedom of speech unless it solely benefits them.)
>The Guardian columnist Jason Wilson argued that "It's OK To Be White" was devised by white supremacists in order to stoke overreaction from the left, sow confusion, embed a racist agenda in the mainstream media, and ultimately invite a backlash against anti-racist activism.
If you're actively trying to invite a backlash against anti-racist activation, then you'd better be able to come up with a damn good explanation why you're against anti-racist activism, or just admit you're racist.
"It's okay to be white" was devised by fascists on 4chan to do exactly that. Rile up centrists and generally those that don't get what whiteness is.
White is arbitrarily defined. Obama is half white yet would never be considered white, so there white is the absence of black. A lot of specific ethnic groups have been added or removed from the definition too (Irish, Italians, Cubans). It's exactly as flexible as fascists need it to be.
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