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'Whites-only' community banning Black, Jewish and gay people set up in Arkansas (www.thepinknews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 173 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I can't even imagine what it must be like to be that frightened and insecure.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    that's one thing I never truly understood about grievance culture — they are the one group of people who can ignore all this and just piss away the days doing whatever they want, whenever they want to, and instead, they spend their lives destroying their bodies with cortisol.

    if I had the confidence of a mediocre white man, I'd be famous.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My assumption is simply that they're such complete losers - such an awful combination of ignorant, angry and stupid - that being white and heterosexual are literally the only things they have going for them - that they have nothing of any actual value to offer to anyone.

    And that's why they rage against "DEI" and "woke" and "race theory" and so on - because if they were to lose the built-in cachet that comes from being white and heterosexual, they'd have nothing at all.

    Because yes - if they had anything at all of any value to offer anyone, they could focus on that instead, and pursue it with the built-in advantages of being white and heterosexual. That they don't pretty strongly indicates that they can't.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    my personal experience agrees. I think this is what is powering Qanon as well — a deep, wrestling anxiety over the thought that they might have enabled really terrible things happening around them.

    Like, for God's sake, this entire thing started with John Podesta supposedly emailing someone about a "cheese pizza," which is a term that is probably, unfortunately, deeply familiar to anyone who had precocious levels of Internet access in the early 2000s.

    Basically, it is not a code word that a 70 year old man would use in 2014, in public email, on the campaign trail. In fact, he was ordering, literally, a fucking pizza for his staff.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    And meanwhile, their hero president is a rapist who was best friends with and a regular guest of the most high profile child sex abuser and procurer in American history.

    I would think that much cognitive dissonance would actually be painful.

    Maybe it is, and that helps explain their constant misdirected seething rage.

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