Okay, so someone needs to educate me

[justalurkr]

I will own being as white privileged as it is possible for a female person to be, so the follow post and its addendum puzzled me:
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Let me make it clear that white people should never under any circumstance make or engage in white jokes. No matter what your intent is, you have effectively communicated that you think you’re different from other white people and have earned the right to join poc in the one thing we have to make light of our daily experiences with white supremacy. You look like an ass when you do it.

yep. you’re taking power away from it, which means you’re taking power away from us. you’re distancing yourself from your white privilege- you feel exempt from putting in the hardest kind of anti-racist work- processing your own internalized racism & white supremacy. so who does this help? no one, but you. it is selfish and damaging"

First reaction: "Isn't cultural appropriation sort of our thing?"
Second reaction: "Wait, white people do this?"
(My brain has a lot of parts)
Third reaction: "Everyone chill until we find out what sort of jokes we're talking about here."

So...what sorts of japery am I avoiding in order to not be a supremacist jackass?

Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Aren't "pollack" jokes and "blonde" jokes denigrating a portion of the white population? Both used to bother me, being from Polish descent and a part-time blonde. :)

But I don't get blaming every white person for historic issues that people growing up today didn't take part of and condemn, so maybe that's just me.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Upon further reflection concerning the hum, it's more "punching up" kinds of jokes. Women rolling their eyes and muttering "men!" is the closest I can come. How offensive would it be for a man to roll his eyes and beat me to the punch? He stole my safety valve to make himself look hip and with the whole no oppressing girls thing.

Just as there is no doubt in my mind that while things are better for me in the workplace than they were for my mother, I'm equally clear that women are still not taken quite as seriously as men. I think people of color aren't necessarily blaming every living white person for what happened between 50 and 500 years ago so much as they are blaming all living white people for the lingering effects thereof. I've watched being white benefit me in the workplace where it shouldn't have made any difference.

I'm trying to imagine how it hits the male ego for a woman to be taken more seriously because of her skin color.