White liberals need to try harder to expunge their whiteness, it’s super gross how white they are. They should just shut up at all times in case I black Person is talking somewhere in the world. The world would be better if they just stopped talking altogether, and thinking, just shut up and follow the dictates of your gods, the minority community.
Yes, please more of this! “What other kind of ears are there!?!?” I am a teacher, and the next time I hear another teacher say this — this is how I am going to respond, just to make myself laugh. I am around a lot of this insanity you wrote about at my school, and see, I just need to have a little fun with it!
People who are so desperate to signal their own virtue that they go out of their way to publicly “indicate” to others that they aren’t racist are frantically trying to cover up their own internalized racism. And Arielle Fodor’s wince-inducing performance positively reeked of it. “Never criticize / correct a person of color - just put on your ‘listening ears’ (🤮)”? Racist to the core. She’s saying 1) a person of color can never be wrong simply by virtue of their skin color and 2) people of color are too weak and fragile to handle being disagreed with. If I had as low an opinion of POC as Fodor (and the legions of white women who nodded along like bobblehead dolls while she expressed it), I’d at least have the good taste & judgment not to share it on camera.
A lot of this stems from a kind of moral panic, and a terror about the coming election--they aren't thinking long term, for all their talk of "the right side of history." Arielle Fodor is insufferable and all her content is condescending, facetious and nasty. That intelligent, otherwise rational people can't see this is baffling for sure.
A little additional something that didn't make the essay: this video was the first exposure for me of the Race To Dinner ladies. I'm telling you--they are not right in the head. You can jump to 29:23 and see for yourself. Look at Regina's eyes people--she's like Hannibal Lecter. she doesn't blink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxeGmvpTsus&t=428s
I’m totally with you on the unpleasantness of segregating people by race. I rolled my eyes too. But I would’ve thought the point they were making was obvious.
The Republicans have spent the last few years claiming that Democrats hate white men and it’s not true. It’s still not true now that the Dems are about to nominate a black woman. Having 150,000 White Dudes on a Zoom call out the lie.
PS. I agree with you that the speakers were awful but, I wonder… have you seen the dude who speaks for the Republicans?
Good points, but we know what conservatives are reacting to--there's been a lot of media, TV, and commercial content, see: Gillette, that promote a certain kind of "evolved" male image and condemn traditional models of masculinity, demonizing them by making them synonymous with a stereotype of the toxic, rapey, white, racist, gun-toting redneck. I think it's great to show that white men are very much engaged with the Democratic cause. But I don't see leftists dialing down their hate at white men--at all!! I mean, when they're not preaching that "white women are the problem" it's straight white men that are the root of all evil.
“ Now, some elite self-loathing women who desperately want not to be bad white people will pay $5000 a plate to attend a Race To Dinner event, where they get to sit around a table whilst they are lambasted by two absolutely terrifying harridans: Regina Jackson and Saira Rao.”
I’d pay to see them have dinner with Megyn Kelly or Heather MacDonald
I assumed the subtext of "White Dudes for Kamala" was "You think all white guys are big J. D. Vance fans, but we're not" - the choice of the word "dudes" being in the nature of a joke. (No idea what went on in the zoom call, though; it may have been as idiotic as you suspect.) "White Women for Kamala," on the other hand - like pretty much every organized "white women doing the work" effort of the past 40 years - is just earnest, clueless, awkward, and tail-chasing.
I think people need to stop being afraid of bullies. No one gets to tell me what I am, what my biases are, what I should think, believe, opine and sign my name to. Especially if said people have the unmitigated hubris to claim they're "on the right side of history." What fools these mortals be.
you don't write often but when you do, it's choice. i am reminded of the 2016 primaries between hilary clinton and bernie sanders. the sanders rallies seemed exciting, crowded and got lots of press coverage. hilary pretty much did nothing beyond wait for her anointment from the DNC.
during the lead up to the election, she was quiet, other than calling half the country "deplorables." suddenly, about 2 days before the election, a friend sent me a link via e-mail instructing me to "go to pantsuit nation to read the inspiring stories of women's struggles with the patriarchy."
as a woman who ran a successful NYC theatrical costume shop and bought real estate, i'm not really inspired by "women's struggles." i am inspired by people of EITHER (there are only two) gender who work hard and make it without taking handouts or falling back on their status as victims, while maintaining their integrity.
i thought "am i supposed to vote for this completely reptilian woman because of her fashion choices? or because we both have no longer functioning reproductive organs in common? or some chromosomal similarities?" i sat that election out. i'm just not a lesser of two evils kind of gal.
the democrats love to blame the russians for trump's 2016 victory but if they had run sanders, i believe he would have won. they made a bad choice and thought that the voters would do as instructed. when they didn't, the party had to concoct an elaborate tale of foreign intrigue. oh, the unreliable populace. how can we ever control them with that pesky constitution always getting in the way?
which leads me to some theatrical performances where the director, with no real well thought out rationale, decides to "update" a classic to "make it more relevant" to a modern audience. as if we're too stupid to get the tragic and universal tale of star crossed lovers (or whatever) unless we have the same pair of jeans as the leading man. those directors have no respect for the audience, much like the DNC had no respect for the voters, and it comes through. people are not that stupid. they know when they're being talked down to.
since the dawn of man, qualities like greed, deceptiveness, murderous instinct, brilliance, integrity, laziness, etc have been distributed throughout populations and cultures. now we have to make whiteness the repository of all evil, POCs the carriers of all goodness, males the locus of all toxicity. in a world with no universal stories, art becomes just a series of selfies, swirling down the toilet.
and when did george clooney become the spokesman for the democratic party?
One of the best pieces I’ve read. Thank you! Subscribed.
Thank you very much!
White liberals need to try harder to expunge their whiteness, it’s super gross how white they are. They should just shut up at all times in case I black Person is talking somewhere in the world. The world would be better if they just stopped talking altogether, and thinking, just shut up and follow the dictates of your gods, the minority community.
That Arielle Fodor was the epitome of cringe. Gag me.
Ok I got a bit further. Fantastic! Truth w comedy gold 😂😂 ok ok gonna keep redoing
I’m only half way through and I’m blown away. Great explanation. Now I’ll read the rest. lol
Yes, please more of this! “What other kind of ears are there!?!?” I am a teacher, and the next time I hear another teacher say this — this is how I am going to respond, just to make myself laugh. I am around a lot of this insanity you wrote about at my school, and see, I just need to have a little fun with it!
Keep laughing! Thank you.
Because they are indicating that they aren't racists like Trump is.
It's not that deep.
It's not deep at all, that's the really dangerous thing...
People who are so desperate to signal their own virtue that they go out of their way to publicly “indicate” to others that they aren’t racist are frantically trying to cover up their own internalized racism. And Arielle Fodor’s wince-inducing performance positively reeked of it. “Never criticize / correct a person of color - just put on your ‘listening ears’ (🤮)”? Racist to the core. She’s saying 1) a person of color can never be wrong simply by virtue of their skin color and 2) people of color are too weak and fragile to handle being disagreed with. If I had as low an opinion of POC as Fodor (and the legions of white women who nodded along like bobblehead dolls while she expressed it), I’d at least have the good taste & judgment not to share it on camera.
A lot of this stems from a kind of moral panic, and a terror about the coming election--they aren't thinking long term, for all their talk of "the right side of history." Arielle Fodor is insufferable and all her content is condescending, facetious and nasty. That intelligent, otherwise rational people can't see this is baffling for sure.
A little additional something that didn't make the essay: this video was the first exposure for me of the Race To Dinner ladies. I'm telling you--they are not right in the head. You can jump to 29:23 and see for yourself. Look at Regina's eyes people--she's like Hannibal Lecter. she doesn't blink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxeGmvpTsus&t=428s
I’m totally with you on the unpleasantness of segregating people by race. I rolled my eyes too. But I would’ve thought the point they were making was obvious.
The Republicans have spent the last few years claiming that Democrats hate white men and it’s not true. It’s still not true now that the Dems are about to nominate a black woman. Having 150,000 White Dudes on a Zoom call out the lie.
PS. I agree with you that the speakers were awful but, I wonder… have you seen the dude who speaks for the Republicans?
PPS. I’m totally with you on the Last Supper.
Good points, but we know what conservatives are reacting to--there's been a lot of media, TV, and commercial content, see: Gillette, that promote a certain kind of "evolved" male image and condemn traditional models of masculinity, demonizing them by making them synonymous with a stereotype of the toxic, rapey, white, racist, gun-toting redneck. I think it's great to show that white men are very much engaged with the Democratic cause. But I don't see leftists dialing down their hate at white men--at all!! I mean, when they're not preaching that "white women are the problem" it's straight white men that are the root of all evil.
lol cry harder?
HA HA! yes
Great essay, 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
“ Now, some elite self-loathing women who desperately want not to be bad white people will pay $5000 a plate to attend a Race To Dinner event, where they get to sit around a table whilst they are lambasted by two absolutely terrifying harridans: Regina Jackson and Saira Rao.”
I’d pay to see them have dinner with Megyn Kelly or Heather MacDonald
That Rao is a raving Israel hater btw. Absolutely bah shit pro Hamas.
I vote for Megyn. Actually, I’d love to watch Megyn have a go at Regina and Saira. They are horrid.
I assumed the subtext of "White Dudes for Kamala" was "You think all white guys are big J. D. Vance fans, but we're not" - the choice of the word "dudes" being in the nature of a joke. (No idea what went on in the zoom call, though; it may have been as idiotic as you suspect.) "White Women for Kamala," on the other hand - like pretty much every organized "white women doing the work" effort of the past 40 years - is just earnest, clueless, awkward, and tail-chasing.
What did the race and sex segregated zoom sessions achieve? $$$$$$ 🤮
I also know some of the people who were on the calls. In many ways it did surprise they were on the call and were initially v proud of it.
I personally think they suffer from what Robin DiAngelo called 'Nice Racism'
I think people need to stop being afraid of bullies. No one gets to tell me what I am, what my biases are, what I should think, believe, opine and sign my name to. Especially if said people have the unmitigated hubris to claim they're "on the right side of history." What fools these mortals be.
you don't write often but when you do, it's choice. i am reminded of the 2016 primaries between hilary clinton and bernie sanders. the sanders rallies seemed exciting, crowded and got lots of press coverage. hilary pretty much did nothing beyond wait for her anointment from the DNC.
during the lead up to the election, she was quiet, other than calling half the country "deplorables." suddenly, about 2 days before the election, a friend sent me a link via e-mail instructing me to "go to pantsuit nation to read the inspiring stories of women's struggles with the patriarchy."
as a woman who ran a successful NYC theatrical costume shop and bought real estate, i'm not really inspired by "women's struggles." i am inspired by people of EITHER (there are only two) gender who work hard and make it without taking handouts or falling back on their status as victims, while maintaining their integrity.
i thought "am i supposed to vote for this completely reptilian woman because of her fashion choices? or because we both have no longer functioning reproductive organs in common? or some chromosomal similarities?" i sat that election out. i'm just not a lesser of two evils kind of gal.
the democrats love to blame the russians for trump's 2016 victory but if they had run sanders, i believe he would have won. they made a bad choice and thought that the voters would do as instructed. when they didn't, the party had to concoct an elaborate tale of foreign intrigue. oh, the unreliable populace. how can we ever control them with that pesky constitution always getting in the way?
which leads me to some theatrical performances where the director, with no real well thought out rationale, decides to "update" a classic to "make it more relevant" to a modern audience. as if we're too stupid to get the tragic and universal tale of star crossed lovers (or whatever) unless we have the same pair of jeans as the leading man. those directors have no respect for the audience, much like the DNC had no respect for the voters, and it comes through. people are not that stupid. they know when they're being talked down to.
since the dawn of man, qualities like greed, deceptiveness, murderous instinct, brilliance, integrity, laziness, etc have been distributed throughout populations and cultures. now we have to make whiteness the repository of all evil, POCs the carriers of all goodness, males the locus of all toxicity. in a world with no universal stories, art becomes just a series of selfies, swirling down the toilet.
and when did george clooney become the spokesman for the democratic party?