🐱 Whiteness Is a Pandemic

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/whiteness-is-a-pandemic-1846494770

I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said.

Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.

A line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist who walked into three Atlanta-area massage parlors yesterday, and allegedly killed eight people—six of whom were of Asian descent—to the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year. The former president, and the party of the former president, can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans. The line doesn’t stop there, though. It extends back 400 years and has tentacles clawing everywhere white supremacy exists here, in America, which is everywhere.

There’s a line connecting this act of terror to the 11 people killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, and the nine people killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, of course. But also to gentrification, to red-lining, to racial profiling, to gerrymandering, to voter oppression, to mass incarceration, to the war on drugs, to the subprime mortgage crisis, to the vast disparities in both COVID deaths and who receives COVID vaccinations, to how the men and women who stormed the capitol just went home and had dinner with their families afterward. While we were still processing and recovering from what we witnessed, they were on already back on their couches, watching Criminal Minds.

White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

The Root is the unfunny Daily Stormer for black people

 

[ZehnBoat]

I HATES THEM WYPIPO, I DON WANNA SEE DEM NO MO

*stays in the US, sees white people*

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIITTT

 

[Merried Senior Comic]

Can we just ship all your black asses back to Africa then?

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Blackness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people— black people and people who are not black, Missy McLauchlin included.

Watch me post this exact sentence on any MSM website and get banned for "hate speech".

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Science is real, sweaty.

WHITENESS IS A VIRUS, SWEATY.

Does whiteness include these (((white))) guys as well?

 

[Meat Target]

Does whiteness include these (((white))) guys as well?

Only insofar as it allows the Fellow Whites like Tim Wise to keep beating the white guilt drum.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Only insofar as it allows the Fellow Whites like Tim Wise to keep beating the white guilt drum.

Let's throw Tim Wise in East St. Louis, South Chicago or Ferguson since he don't like to be around white folks.

 

[Some JERK]

lol no, this is racist.

 

[Screw Danlon]

You can plug in pretty much any word or concept and get the most based and/or retarded statements. My mom included.

I plugged into your mom, once. It was pretty shocking.

 

[Clem Fandango]

That's pretty much 2020.


Sounds like he's advocating for genocide or ethnic cleansing.

I'm struggling to figure out what the hell that means if it doesn't mean kill all white people.

 

[TowinKarz]

I'm struggling to figure out what the hell that means if it doesn't mean kill all white people.

Shows what you know.

Thinking that wishing for disenfranchisement and enslavement of white people ALSO automatically means killing them, he never said that! .... Such a display of white privilege.... you'll die first.... er, be educated first, yeah, that's what I meant....

 

[Koby_Fish]

I'm struggling to figure out what the hell that means if it doesn't mean kill all white people.

it's taking abstract concepts (like getting to work on time or not being late for an appointment, hard work, placing importance on education, etc.) and applying them to white people only, while claiming that nonwhites following these abstract constructs (collated together as "whiteness") are "colonized" and have abandoned their race/ethnic specific "ways of knowing". This is all shorthand for "stop acting white!" and elevating the concept of "acting white" to official status. But they're also trying to get white people to stop "acting white" and want us all to act like nonwhite people who don't know how to tell time or do math or whatever (even though saying that nonwhites can't tell time or do math in itself is horrifically and mindblowingly racist).

 

[Clem Fandango]

it's taking abstract concepts (like getting to work on time or not being late for an appointment, hard work, placing importance on education, etc.) and applying them to white people only, while claiming that nonwhites following these abstract constructs (collated together as "whiteness") are "colonized" and have abandoned their race/ethnic specific "ways of knowing". This is all shorthand for "stop acting white!" and elevating the concept of "acting white" to official status. But they're also trying to get white people to stop "acting white" and want us all to act like nonwhite people who don't know how to tell time or do math or whatever (even though saying that nonwhites can't tell time or do math in itself is horrifically and mindblowingly racist).

To me "acting white" means taking the shopping cart back to the store after I've put the groceries in my car, and paying taxes.

I can stop doing those things I guess, but I don't see how it'll make non-white lives any better.

 

[Gig Bucking Fun]

Ok nigger.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Can we just ship all your black asses back to Africa then?

Would've already done it but John Wilke Boothe was a nigga lover and capped Lincoln before it could happened.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Hahahahaha I thought a woman wrote this.

 

[UselessIdiot]

I'm struggling to figure out what the hell that means if it doesn't mean kill all white people.

Yeah, good luck trying that when whites outnumber blacks like 5-1.

Let's say if whites just disappeared. Do they think Asians, Latinos, and anyone else is going to put up with black bullshit or self-flagellate and constantly tell blacks how awesome and special they are like whites constantly do?

 

[Koby_Fish]

To me "acting white" means taking the shopping cart back to the store after I've put the groceries in my car, and paying taxes.

I can stop doing those things I guess, but I don't see how it'll make non-white lives any better.

the whitest of all the whiteness apparently is "capitalism" and they think as soon as all the things that feed into capitalism are done away with (like going to work on time apparently or being overly concerned with an edjumacashun), the socialisms will make everybody's life easier and less exploited.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

Can we get a "Mad at White People" rating? Maybe have it be a bucket of KFC or something.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Blacks are a disease, literally a subhuman left over from the pre-sapient days; before we developed anything that made us human. Feral 'people' that should have died out a hundred thousand years ago.