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Crip Dyke's avatar

>> "“Extinction.” Like white people are a species unto themselves"<<

Biologically speaking, for something to be an "extinction" and not merely a "death" it has to result in the termination of a reproductively isolated population.

Which is why it's scientifically correct to refer to Matt Walsh's future extinction.

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I get annoyed with the use of "white race" because it co-opts something of Black identity. The reason "African-American" exists is, as I understand it, because unlike "Irish-American" or "English-American" or "German-American" a lot of Black people in the US do not know what modern country their ancestors came from. That's because they were kidnapped and brought to America in fucking chains, treated worse than animals on the journey over and sold like actual livestock once they landed. They were not considered important enough to keep records of where they were from, nor what language or culture they had come from, nor even their actual fucking names.

In talking about "the white race" people that would, if they'd lived at the time, described the Irish as semi-human, the Italians as barely European, anyone from central and eastern Europe as dumb and only good for work, decide that they too do not have a specific cultural background besides some generic "whiteness". They want to equate themselves, again, with the victims of a series of brutal crimes they will not themselves even admit really happened.

What is "white culture"? Because it's not a unifying religion. It's not a shared cuisine. It's not a shared language. It's not a shared sense of humour or literary and artistic taste. What is the unifying feature of "white culture" beyond the colour of your skin?

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