Church of Jeff
Mensch, Marina@jeffowski so true! Even though it's hard to choose differently, when all your social environment thrives on hatred.
François @Prague@jeffowski for the GOP it is not a choice, it is a living.
Gamal Sherif@jeffowski Ok; and perhaps identifying as #white is a choice. But what ELSE are they supposed to identify as? That's a light-skinned opportunity and not my problem.
@gdsherif ---
LMAO... Are you mixed race?
I'm Asian and European. I will never be white enough for white society and I will never be Asian enough for Asian society.
Why don't people simply identify as human?
I think your comment directly points to the internalization of race within certain groups, even though everyone clearly recognizes it as a construct.
Makes you go Hmmmm.
Maggie Maybe@jeffowski @gdsherif back in the 90s I hung out with some Irish dudes who insisted that Italians were half black, therefore the Irish Boston guys wouldn’t associate with the Italian Boston guys. They had a derogatory name for Italians that I don’t remember. “Half a (something beginning with an M?)”
So even pure blood Italians are not considered white by the racists. I think they had opinions about Greek people as well, but they didn’t clash with those guys.
@maggiejk @jeffowski I sometimes wonder if race and class are ways to divide workers. Sure, American dark-skinned folk claim the “B” as in Black, and that’s cool. My biological people are Irish Catholic, Ukrainian Jewish, and Albanian/Sudanese Moslem by way of Egypt (Kemet).
@maggiejk @jeffowski check out what Arielle Angel has to say about workers in Jewish Currents: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other
LaurentdeLyon@gdsherif @jeffowski Noel Ignatiev is a racist with a hidden agenda. And he's not a white male himself.
"If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!
Noel Ignatiev"
K@jeffowski Just to be clear, I'm not for "Hate is a choice"...
Abstract_Bit@jeffowski :Yes,a bad choice. Always
Oberst Enzian@jeffowski Race is only compulsory because those that consider themselves “white” keep insisting it’s real. Totally delulu.
Danny Boling ☮️
@IAmDannyBoling
The age of information is gone. It was really great. We are now in the age of disinformation. It's less great
@jeffowski
The age of information is gone. It was really great. We are now in the age of disinformation. It's less great
@jeffowski
chandlerkyle93@jeffowski MAGA hates choices
Xeno Danger Evil@jeffowski i choo choo choose to hate fascism
diesUndDasMitTassen 🇺🇦@jeffowski Sorry: Hate is no choice. Love is the choice.
Rana@jeffowski
Empathy is a choice
Kindness is a choice
Love is a choice
There are so many joys
@jeffowski If sexual orientation was a choice I would not be attracted to men. I was going to say that human women are the only species who date their only natural predator, but I’m sure that’s incorrect. Male Praying mantis’ seek a mate even though she will eat their head after.
But otherwise I think it’s just us.