Fair points, though not exactly revelatory - I get the justification for oh white people, really, I do - I just want an honest take on what it serves beyond I get to feel better in this moment by making comments about your oppressive identity. But, humor me, and let me posit just one more ignorant question to…
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To culturally appropriate a phrase from the '90s (I don't think I'm old enough to legitimately use it...call the plaid, Kurt Cobain-loving police!), "what is your DAMAGE?"
Just humor me and answer my question. What does "Oh WHITE PEOPLE" serve, particularly in comparison to the numerous thoughtful responses to Ms.…
Oh White People = lumping ALL white people into one generalization that, in the case of this article = ignorant as fuck. Again, Two Words: White People could have just as easily been Two Words: ignorant asfuck. WHAT pray tell does anyone gain by yet-another-generalization? This article is about the artistic (?)…
Thank you, oh evolved white woman, for the schooling. Much obliged. Oh White People!
Gee, thanks!
So based on my association by skin color and, admittedly, the fact that I benefit from systemic inequality (and am very much aware of and sensitive to it), I have no right to be offended that I get lumped in with the Miley Cyruses of the world?
Really, genuinely seeking clarity on why oh WHITE PEOPLE is ok.
You're reading my posts everyday!? Really!?
Just like any stereotype exists because SOMETIMES THEY RING TRUE. So I guess we get carte blanche to treat everyone the way we assume they'll be based on something that someone LIKE THEM did at some point. Thanks for the clearing that up.
Listen. My argument is not that I am color-blind or that I feel like I should get to run around in my pearls and Nantucket reds (yep, totally own both!) blissfully unaware of my own privilege. (I couldn't, even if I tried, after furtively reading Paulo Freire and trying to figure shit out whilst waxing philosophical…
I love that - "despite being a woman". Hey, sorry about that experience of sexual violence, male patriarchy, and 72 cents on the dollar, but at least you're white!"
This discussion, of cultural appropriation and the flaunting of gross ignorance, is rich and important. Oh white people is noxious.
Oh please. Two words: White People is a bullshit indictment of ALL white people. Two words: fucking moron would have sufficed.
Sorry, all I saw was Evie's super charming comment. Pyschobombshell - I see your point, sure, but "white people don't really have their own culture" didn't really reveal what you were getting at. And I take Aubrey's point that "white culture" is about as ridiculous a concept as "black culture".
It remains that there's…
You're right. I'm a fucking barbie doll who has no basis for an opinion because I'm so goddamn WHITE. Excuse me while I go jump off a fucking bridge because I am nothing but a cultural vacuum, have never faced a challenge in my life and am, in a nutshell, worthless.
Because "white culture" doesn't involve any nuance,…
White people don't have culture? Do you not interact with any white people? Listen, I dig this piece overall, but I do not dig the resulting attacks on all that is white. Just because there are things dominant and oppressive about whiteness doesn't mean you get to write off white history and culture writ large. I…
I should mention, Guyanese of South Asian descent.
I think we can agree that Miley made some egregious choices with this video (GAWD). But I take paladjinn's point. Is my Guyanese friend who grew up in a single parent household in the Bronx not allowed to identify with the culture(s) she grew up in? She got a scholarship to a Manhattan prep school where she sure as…
This is a really thoughtful piece (and JEEBUS, Miley, that business is just super duper cringe-worthy). However, I really don't love the "oh, white people" comments. How is that productive? It's not. It's divisive and patronizing as heck. (I hope it's ok that I make this comment as a member of the dominant, oppressive…
Props for the insightful comment.
Seriously? Turn that comment on its head and tell me that's not wildly offensive? Honestly, this entire video can be summed up in two words: Asian People, Black People, Latino People?
How is this ok? Or productive?