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toasterkitten ([info]toasterkitten) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-07-29 12:08:00


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My good woman, we have no advantages
The internet takes a big step back and has one of those 'arguments that, if you join, you always come off sounding sort of racist' kind of things. These are generally very serious discussions, where people must always handle topics with a high level of tact, class, and decorum. That's why the go-gaia forums are the perfect place for such an exchange of ideas.

Needless to say, teenagers arguing over white privilege has accomplished nothing except filling FIFTY SIX pages, and growing. Shout out (Holla!) goes to Nethilia, aka [info]kittikattie, a fellow otf_wank member, for starting this marathon thread.


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[info]splorch
2005-07-29 07:31 pm UTC (link)
I don't think I've ever followed a link to a Gaia wank before, and can't even talk about the wank until I can get past how horrendous I find that forum layout. Ugh.

Maybe that is unconscious UBB privilege.

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[info]toasterkitten
2005-07-29 07:43 pm UTC (link)
i can't stand it either, and i'm just talking about their forum. i found it by accident.

also, the avatars really ruin any chance of me taking them seriously.

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[info]pragmatic
2005-07-29 08:11 pm UTC (link)
I know. Especially in Extended Discussion - cutesy little chibi anime things discussing abortion.

That'd make a hot anime, on second thought.

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(no subject) - [info]toasterkitten, 2005-07-29 08:21 pm UTC

[info]greenling
2005-07-30 12:19 am UTC (link)
It grows on you like an alien fungus, slowly twisting your preferences until everything else just looks weird and clunky. Then even the most die-hard discussion whore finds themselves posting just a little bit more to be able to afford that neat new set of pants, or that Angelic Bracelet...

Seriously, though, I used to think that, but the art is so good you eventually don't even notice. :3

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[info]toasterkitten
2005-07-30 12:21 am UTC (link)
wait, you get pseudo-paid just for commenting? that is crazy.

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(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2005-07-30 01:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]toasterkitten, 2005-07-30 01:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]toasterkitten, 2005-07-30 04:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2005-07-30 05:30 am UTC

[info]radiotrash
2005-07-29 09:59 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand how no one can be racist against whites? "I hate white people but I'm not racist cause I'm a minority!!!"

Whenever I run into that part of the argument I run away.

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[info]frau_eva
2005-07-29 11:39 pm UTC (link)
I've had to deal with this many, many times before. I love going to an overwhelmingly liberal college, but man, some stuff is just insane. I'll try my best to explain.

Apparently, according to certain people, racism is only institutional. Prejudice can be done by everyone, but racism can only be done by white people using the system. No, don't try looking it up in the dictionary to prove them wrong. The English language is a tool of the white man, after all. And this is applicable all over the world, apparently. White people hold sway in the system in every country on earth, so it's an unwritten law of the world. That can never be broken. EVER. I'll try to remember that when I go to Japan and they deny me housing because I'm white.

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[info]radiotrash
2005-07-29 11:48 pm UTC (link)
Man, it makes it sound like it's our priveledge that we can be racist against others. So, minorities can't be racist against each other can they?

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(no subject) - [info]frau_eva, 2005-07-30 12:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]notjo, 2005-07-30 01:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frau_eva, 2005-07-30 04:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]teruhiko, 2005-08-02 04:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frau_eva, 2005-08-03 03:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2005-07-30 02:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frau_eva, 2005-07-30 04:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2005-07-30 05:34 am UTC
(no subject) - orangutan, 2005-07-30 05:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2005-07-31 04:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2005-07-30 11:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-07-31 06:57 am UTC

[info]hristaesir
2005-07-30 12:03 am UTC (link)
And I will try to remember that the next time one of my Korean friends' parents tells them they can't go someplace with me because I'm not trustworthy because I'm white. Well, more accurately, because I'm not Korean and, worse, not even Asian.

Also someone needs to tell all the black and latino kids having the massive race-related brawls in high schools that minorities can't be racist. Just not possible. Sorry guys.

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(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2005-07-30 02:27 am UTC

[info]elanor_durall
2005-07-30 03:01 am UTC (link)
I once read a book about that. At first I thought it was an interesting and informative read, but then I found out it was written by a white devil and I had to burn it.

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(no subject) - orangutan, 2005-07-31 01:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frau_eva, 2005-07-31 07:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]visp, 2005-08-02 02:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]renata_hpjc, 2005-08-02 06:42 pm UTC

[info]iris
2005-07-30 01:18 am UTC (link)
I want to sit these people down and make them listen to "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" off the Avenue Q soundtrack.

Everyone's a little bit racist, all right?
Bigotry has never been exclusively whiiiiite~

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(no subject) - [info]drworm, 2005-07-30 02:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nekoama, 2005-07-30 05:27 am UTC

[info]elanor_durall
2005-07-30 02:53 am UTC (link)
Personally I just treat everyone as an individual. For me this works the best.

No matter how many times I hear that, it still makes me giggle.

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[info]greenglass
2005-07-30 04:01 am UTC (link)
I never worked for me.

I treat everyone as one big lump of people. By treating everyone equally like cows, I can produce my Soylent Green new Happy Peopleburgers.

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[info]gloria_mundi
2005-07-30 05:04 am UTC (link)
I'm totally racist free. I hate everyone and just keep a list of people that I don't want to kill at the moment.

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2005-07-30 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Word to that.

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[info]coyotegirl
2005-07-30 05:26 am UTC (link)
I stay the hell away from Extended Discussion. It's just one big pile of splooge 24/7, and if I browse, I get tempted to fap away at the idiots.

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[info]nekoama
2005-07-30 05:28 am UTC (link)
I was once on GAIA.

Then I grew a brain.

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[info]toasterkitten
2005-07-30 05:36 am UTC (link)
welcome back to society

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[info]pragmatic
2005-07-30 06:33 am UTC (link)
You're certainly smarter than I am. I stay for the drugs and liquor...or something.

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[info]moonjaguar
2005-07-30 08:14 am UTC (link)
I thought my account was dead. I logged in and I've got 400 gold in there. Shock.

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(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2005-07-30 09:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-07-30 06:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2005-07-31 02:18 am UTC

[info]kittikattie
2005-07-30 07:26 am UTC (link)
*bows* Always glad to serve the needs of wank.

*the icon is for me, not the OP*

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[info]omnicrom
2005-07-30 01:58 pm UTC (link)
And a wonderful icon it is.

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[info]megmurry
2005-07-30 06:45 pm UTC (link)
Isn't there a [info]gaia_wank?

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[info]toasterkitten
2005-07-30 07:38 pm UTC (link)
I didn't know about it, although with the amout of wank on that site I think it deserves a spereate community. It's pretty dead, and that otf members would appreciate it more, as it had 23 times the number of people reading it.

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[info]pragmatic
2005-07-30 09:58 pm UTC (link)
I always thought that wanks that were about Gaia go in gaia_wank, while wanks that have nothing to do with Gaia but happen to occur there go in other communities.

Example: "Gaia supports global terrorism!!!" - gaia_wank
"Jesus supports global terrorism!!!" - otf_wank, political_wank, etc.

Well, actually I doubt that's true.

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