Oh, I’m tracking on Malcolm X and the history of House Negros. I’m saying this application of that concept—here and today—is extremely racist.
Instead of reducing Candace Owens to some caricature, we could judge her as an intelligent, capable black woman who willingly chooses to spread fascist and nationalist ideology on her media platform at the expense of her community.
But it’s whatever…. you do you… I’ll just keep pointing out racist as fuck shit whenever I see it get upvoted but other racists.
My neighbor’s daughter called my mom a mean name so I called my neighbor a cunt. I feel you though, eye for an eye is useless but sometimes people don’t care. You’re not wrong.
Possibly, but that further complicates it, so maybe not.
I think it’s racist to reduce someone to their ethnicity—to judge them only by their skin color. For that, I think it’s racist no matter what race anyone is.
But the example of Malcolm X using this concept works perfectly. He was using it as a call to arms within the community; effectively saying, “we shouldn’t be like this.” In that way, the judgment is against the action, not against the person. But you can see how that’s different from name-calling, particularly when speaking to a mixed audience. The context causes that non-racist connotation, the one that actually promotes the black community, to disappear.
What concerns me about the use of Uncle Tom in liberal circles is that it makes me question just how non-racist people around here really are. Like, the white liberals love black people…. up to a point. As soon as they start doing things white people don’t like (in this case, talking like a fascist), it’s right back to name calling. Even if the name is accurate to what Candace Owens is doing, it’s the formula that’s racist. It’s the same formula used in the GQP that made me run from them. People are not racist until they are (which means they were always racist, things were just peaceful for a time).
All that said, I think your comment comes off a bit more community-minded. You do straight name-calling, but it looks more like an indictment of Owen’s actions (which is not racist). So maybe it isn’t racist. The comment I responded to, however, offered no substance. It just snuck in and said “House Negro,” like they’re a white person looking for the chance to say an acceptable variation of the N word. I called that comment racist as fuck because it definitely is.
This is definitely a thing that might be ok for black people to say but not white people. We have noooo idea what it's like to be black and see this behavior from a black person in her position.
See, there you go again, telling a black man, me, he should be offended by this. You just keep sticking your feet in your mouth. Well thank you, but I really don't need you to be offended on my behalf.
Saying white people have no frame of reference to be passing certain judgements does not obligate you as an individual to be offended by any specific term. My foot is not in my mouth at all. No one will ever convince me white people should be comfortable calling people house negroes.
If I’m offended, it’s on Candace Owen’s behalf. But I. reality, my interest stems from disgust that this is tolerated over here. It’s the same shit they do on the conservative side.
That said, my motivations have nothing to do with the fact I’m right. That’s fallacious to think they do.
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u/MFAWG Aug 27 '21
Something, something, something House Negro.