Whiteness is a concept and Jewish people have been assimilated into that concept just like Irish people and Italians. White Passing People and Nouveau Whites have all the privileges of whiteness.

In any case, her being Jewish has jack shit to do with obnoxiously butting into a convo and demanding acknowledgement for…

Jewish people have been basically assimilated into the concept of "whiteness" in the US and they are perfectly capable of being anti-black racists just like "plain ole white people" so her being Jewish is completely irrelevant. Using the holocaust to feign solidarity with black people or to justify stupid behavior is…

What does you being Jewish have to do with anything? lol Islam is simply a religion, not a theory of institutionalized oppression within itself like patriarchy and white supremacy.

And oh, your family was murdered by Nazis? Well then you should understand that when people talk about the Evil Third Reich they don't…

Preach the gospel truth. Let em' know.

For all the white people in this thread going, "not all white people are like that" "I am a white person and I don't think you ...." This is for you.

This:

Our response to men when they say that "not all men are the same" applies to this: even if you were the most race-conscious white person alive, and you'd still benefit from the oppression of non-white people.

Well enough of you are for it to be a problem. It's becoming a huge pet peeve of mine that whenever someone talks about racism some whites feel the need to butt in and remind us they're not all like that. Or they interject just to say "well, I'm one of the good ones". Okay, good for you?

If you're one of the good ones…

I love how your take away from this well written post is, "won't someone think of the WHITE PEOPLE?!?!"

I honestly believe white folks know blackface is wrong, they just don't give a fuck. Even here on gawker and Jez White people try time and again to try to qualify it or explain why there is a difference between their blackface and blackface of old. They always go "Well if I am just trying to portray a character, how…

People are very into this idea that if they didn't mean for the racist thing they did to be racist, that ameliorates it. I'm not sure why.

Her apology seems sincere to me. There's no "I'm sorry if you were offended" or "Can't you all just take a joke" in sight. She screwed up, but she acknowledged the truth of people's criticism and said sorry. I'm willing to accept that and move on.

I have had white friends dress up as black characters or figures for Halloween( Prince or Jules from Pulp Fiction) but their costumes made sense without making their skin darker with some awful makeup. I just don't understand the thought process sometimes jeez!

"Stop being sluts, woman of color and woman who does music associated with women of color! Be classy like this white lady who performs stereotypically 'white' music!"

The people objecting KNOW what the definition of rape is but when it's actually applied, things are different. They view it very different.

You were killing it even before you brought in Veblen. Good show.

"Obscene" in what context? That you can't afford it and someone else can? That you don't get to determine what people blow their money on so you'll insist on judging them instead? That the person who produces a unique object cannot put their own price on the product of their labors, because unless it's affordable…

Gee, maybe it was "to spend that kind of coin on that kind of item is amoral" and "bad economic decisions...lead to poverty", or maybe I was just blinded by the absurdly absolutist statement that "Poverty is worse than racism", because of the way it completely excuses your claiming that the "better question" is the…

Not that I am anywhere near the vicinity of Barneys or even have the discretionary funds to shop there, but: