• Exocrinous@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Personally I respect nature, but don’t like it to be near me. So I prefer to live in places without lawns, like apartments. If I found myself by some miracle in possession of a house with a lawn (in this economy???), I would seek to destroy the lawn and replace it with more house. House is much more useful than lawn. Until I had accomplished that goal, it would just be a useless mass and I wouldn’t waste any time on it except to keep the footpath clear.

      The way white people are like “I want to be responsible for additional household chores so that I can have a useless biological dead zone that ‘looks nice’” is nonsense to me.

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          8 months ago

          I hate to break this to you but lawns were invented by European aristocrats.

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            8 months ago

            TIL having a lawn makes you white.

            If you wanted to slag off aristocracy you could’ve done that without making it a race thing though.

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              8 months ago

              Whiteness is a social construct invented to justify slavery. It’s not a real race, it’s a fake race. Insulting white people isn’t a race thing. People who choose to identify meaningfully as white are all racists.

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                  8 months ago

                  All races are social constructs, but the degree to which they’re harmful social constructs to self-ID as is variable. There are few good reasons to be angry with someone for identifying as maori or Haudenosaunee, for example. And getting mad at someone for identifying as black would be big time victim blaming and unproductive. But white? It was invented 500 years ago, Europeans already had less bad cultural identities, and it was a direct justification for many of the worst atrocities in history. And white people have garbage culture like lawns anyway.

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                    It’s not a real race, it’s a fake race. Insulting white people isn’t a race thing.

                    All races are social constructs

                    Uh oh

                    But white? It was invented 500 years ago, Europeans already had less bad cultural identities, and it was a direct justification for many of the worst atrocities in history

                    Isn’t the whole concept of “race” fairly new and with it came bad shit?

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                I identify as white simply because I recognize I have privileges other races don’t have as often.
                You could be more specific and say I’m by coincidence a very large part Sami, but I’m not part of the culture, all my fully Sami relatives are really far back in the family tree and I’ve never known them, and people who look at me aren’t going to see anything more than a white person, and thus I’m afforded the privileges of being white, so therefore, why call myself anything other than white?