[What's something way more people would enjoy if there wasn't such a negative stigma around it?]
Saying #whitepride and not being called racist.. you knouw. Everyone could be proud of who he is, except whites...
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Black Pride and Gay Pride are not about stroking your own ego.
They're about surviving in a world that condemns them for the color of the skin or the gender that they love.
They're about people telling you "you should be dead, you should be ashamed, you are lesser than me" and responding with "No, I will live, I will be happy, and I am not inferior."
The only tribulation American white people have had to face in recent years in is angry idiots on the internet thinking they're the root of all evil. Not even CLOSE to the same level of oppression, lol.
You know that white pride bullshit offends me as a white man? Why? Because white does nothing to describe my values. It attempts to sublimate and supplant my country's culture and what I take from it that fills me with pride. When I note the differences in culture between Brits, the French, the Scots, the Irish, Germans, Americans, Canadians... the asshats at places like Stormfront aren't even willing to discuss it. To blanketly term all of this "white" culture is to deny everything unique about them and even ignore conflicting sets of values, betraying an overwhelming disregard if not disrespect or even contempt for their actual culture. For them "white" culture is a catch-all to lay claim to anything that strikes their fancy. A broad, completely fucking meaningless banner that contributed nothing to my views but thinks it entitles them to ride everyone's coat-tails simultaneously for Caucasians being any significant portion of the population regardless of the actual source of what they're laying claim to is.
Frankly that people have been pushed to the fringes of their society to the point where their culture noticeably diverged should be a national embarrassment. In particular black culture and American culture should have been one and the same, their history and invention shared. But there is a very deliberate mental disconnect to wall them from America's identity and the common perception of the history of invention and cultural development. But instead you had ghettos that persisted even after segregation was done away with and sneaky ways to continue to concentrate the black population and keep them away from the rest. And there's a mental disconnect with individual achievements as well. I mean for fuck's sake they just pass off George Washington Carver as some peanut guy rather than a man instrumental to the recovery of former slave states and take for a given traffic lights, self-lubricating engines, cortisone, and space-age plastics must have been the fruits of white genius.
Other pride movements are about standing up and looking the people who tried to sweep you under the rug right in the eye. Knowing that there's a reason to keep your chin up instead of believing people that say you're worthless. Your concept of pride is to look down.
Oh, and to answer the first question: Anything that gets passed off as "nerdy" so long as you avoid the die-hards. Education is vital, mythology is entrancing, comics are fun, anime is often a change of pace from western story structure and shouldn't be mistaken for simple cartoons, cartoons themselves aren't just kid stuff, and D&D is a wide open world that exercises a surprising range of skills like story-telling, unconventional problem-solving, planning, resource management, and various others. Not really a player myself, I just see the potential.
We really need to bring back political correctness and shame the racists more.
Pride is taking pleasure over your accomplishments in life. How hard was it for you to become white? If you had tried a little harder, could you have been a shade more white? If not, shut up about it. People who know you probably know you're white. None of the rest of us care.
How hard was it for you to become white? If you had tried a little harder, could you have been a shade more white?
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