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Noel Murray: Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative (The A.V. Club)
Noel Murray: Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative (The A.V. Club)
But increasingly, people aren’t sniping about “whiteness” to be funny, or even defiant—at least not entirely. They’re using the term as a form of criticism, meant to be dismissive. “That movie looks very white,” or, “That sounds like music for white people,” is another way of saying, “That can’t be any good.” And I do have a problem with that.
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Noel Murray: Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative (The A.V. Club)
Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)
Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)
The ability to use “white” to mean “middle-class” to such an overwhelming extent that you actually start to misidentify people—all so that race itself, not class or background or culture or manner, can still remain the difference, the Other. There’s an odd habit here.
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Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)