Race, Ethnicity, Culture —
Yesterday, as I was getting on the bus to go visit my new home and meet my new landlady and sign the lease agreement, I slipped through a jumble of high school students queued up to use the money-ticket machine. Me ‘n’ the picture of me on my bus pass smiled at the driver and […]
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I’m surprised that Ester’s surprised that Fatah burned a Danish flag. Denmark’s foreign policy may be sympathetic, and they sometimes talk a good talk about tolerance, but in practice many Danes who were horrified by the rise of the xenophobe-wing Folkeparti were still crap at cultural and identity politics. I have fond memories of attempting […]
Nubian’s thinking about why white liberals freak out at the word “racist”:
i think that white people fear the r-word because it “others” them, just as how race, others people of color. once their invisible markers of identity become visible, their fragile “normative” status of superiority is threatened and problematized.
Being as I am a white liberal […]
In lieu of a well-thought-out post, I present two brief anecdotes about race and aesthetic relativism.
X. is a generally right-thinking person who abhors mustaches* - which is, of course, the aesthetic preference of all right-thinking persons, because large mustaches unbalanced by equally large beards are objectively hideous things that look like they’re eating your face, […]