Which is to say, the symbols and the ideology aren’t exclusive to the aggressively white supremacist but is the foundation of the idea of whiteness. (Image from The History of White People, Painter)
My annotation, for posterity
If you ever want to make me laugh, make me read about the natural virility of white men.
I could keep going, by the way. You see a lot of modern romance novels that use Norse men as hyper masculine stereotypes. It’s very popular and probably as insidious a gatekeeper for white supremacy as the red pill social media
You also get strains of this in many white Christian sects and in influencer cultures that have “faith” roots. Those trends are just as dangerous to me.
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She talks to the crew off screen a lot, substituting for Chip basically. She is much more comfortable bantering than talking to herself. It’s very very...genre.
She works so hard to not have you hate her for being: preternaturally beautiful, slim, tall, “exotic”, rich and married. She has said “but I’m not a fancy person!” four times so far. And they mix in retakes so you see her make a “mistake”.
And honestly all you have to do is a 3-2-1 cake or a fancy cake mix and pour it in that pan for very impressive but easy potluck contributions. Everyone thinks you’re fancy.
I bought something labeled "Chinese tea" from the hippie grocery store. That's the first mistake. The second mistake was having said tea at around 5. PM yesterday.
I. Never. Went. To. Asleep.
As in, I have been awake since the morning of New Year's Day. In fact, I may never sleep again.
As the old folks would say, worth exactly what you’re paying for it.
LLC Twitter fascinates me to no end.
It’s just Lower Ed for non-institutional credentials. Created by basically the same macro conditions and policy failures. Racialized slightly different but in the same direction.
Hi. I am going to describe something and ask you if there is a word or term for that, okay? This is a warning just in case you’re already drinking.
You know how a book blurb or theater ad or sodium/artist intro has blurbs from their reviews? Is there a term d’art for cherry-picking words from reviews out of context?
Example: “his lyrics were so banal they surreptitiously crossed into interesting, if only because one couldn’t guess what might be left to say” becomes “NYT calls Blue Berry’s latest work INTERESTING!”