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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: May 07, 2012, 06:29:37 AM »
« edited: May 07, 2012, 06:38:14 AM by Nathan »

His point is still sound in that there are ways of being 'culturally white' that don't have so many weird coded racist associations, and that they should be encouraged rather than the ones that do.
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2012, 12:41:32 PM »
« Edited: May 07, 2012, 12:52:10 PM by Nathan »

"Culturally white," is a mouthful for me. I doubt I could get it down with one swallow.

Well, I mean, any generic form of explicit cultural whiteness is somewhat suspect considering the history of white dominance over American society and what feeling the need to draw further attention to one's whiteness would imply, no? But there's still this idea that a particular, non-generic form of cultural expression should be available to any group that isn't suspect in that way. Sadly, for the reason that I just went over, most anybody who'd be interested in 'expressing whiteness' in this country wouldn't be interested in that.

People inevitably have cultural expressions, though, whether they perceive them or not, which was what I mainly meant. Encouraging a form of generic whitebread-American cultural 'non-expression-expression' that's not one of the more virulent kinds.
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