White identity

[@GhoulishGourd]

“The weird sex skull”. Can’t believe you’d come for Shaun like this smh

[@lightarmanov6266]

Do You know where a source is for that

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Confirmed not racist video. Praxis

[@FundFreedom]

They'res a typo in you're name.

[@JacobKemp2183]

@@marcusjackson5837 twat waffle. you are a racist sunuvabitch

[@GhoulishGourd]

What in the fresh hell is going on with these replies? Are you doofuses really too inept to reply to the video instead of an unrelated comment? People letting their grandparents on the Internet was a mistake.

[@hbfrts5519]

Slime hit the nail in the head. I'm South American. In my town, I'm considered "white". In the U.S., I'm considered "latino", or "brown".

[@Bimtavdesign]

Same

[@rodafrogvonsakray3526]

I'm Puerto Rican. I'm super pale. Yet, living in louisiana, whether I am "white" or "latino" 100% depends on who you ask.

[@jeanalisson]

duh, isn't it obvious that we've inherited magic genes that vibrate in perfect resonance with the flow of the rio grande, so that it makes our subjective senses of identity switch over from "fellow western" to "job-stealing pariah" when the airplane flies past the bahamas?

[@camelopardalis84]

I spent all my life in Switzerland and I was familiar with the concept of black people at about age 6. I had seen black people in real life and on t.v. until then. I also started school at age 6 and had a classmate who had one black parent. He looked rather half black half white; his sister however had fairer skin that resembled more the skin of some of those classmates of mine who had one or two parents from Spain and/or Italy. But some of those classmates were as pale as I was, if I remember correctly. I never really used different terms than either black or white until I was an adult, apart from realising at very approximately age 14 that maybe it didn't make that much sense to refer to a darker-skinned person from China as white. But such a person sure as hell wasn't black either. Also the people from Sri Lanka I saw in the streets and working at a certain fast food place were darker than some people I referred to as being black. The black and white dichotomy didn't exist and almost every other way to distinguish people by their "race" was too complicated. Too many "races". Too many ways someone could be mixed-"race". Also, what were native Americans apart from native Americans? The only other easy way to distingish between people by their "race" was actually the way some racist (and I think also the nazis) had used in the past. This way to categorise people by their "race" put me in the same category as people from India, Egypt, most of Northern Africa, Norway, and at least Western Russia. Or - in other words - in the same category as other people with double eyelids, thinner lips and a more narrow nose. Years later though I was made aware of the fact that Björk had monolids. And she's from Iceland. She says she's 100 % Icelandish. I sure as hell don't see her as having a different "race" than I do. I am not alone with all of that. A medium-brown Mexican is definitely white to me. And no-one here speaks about "people of color", this expression would probably be seen as way too similar to "colored person". And you really can't say "colored person" here. I don't know ... Firstly, the host of this video is in my eyes "dark" enough - I am speaking about his hair and eyes - to be of partly Arabic descent. He refers to himself as white, so I guess he's not. I find it strange though to hear a person who *maybe* during three weeks in summer is darker than me and who has blue eyes and rather light-brown hair refer to themselves as "person of color". I mean, go ahead. I just don't see the "color". You look whiter than me. I am relatively pale for a Central European, have brown eyes and medium-brown hair. I know next to nothing about my ancestors but I know of no-one in my family tree who isn't white. Maybe there is someone, maybe not. I wouldn't mind either way.

[@TheGoblinoid]

Same here, bruh

[@ghostfire4623]

I'm gonna think about Shaun every time I hear the word caucasian

[@ComradeLavender]

Now that's a skull I'd high-key want to make out with.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

Thank you, you've just restored all of our innocence.

[@BlaiddGoch]

You beat me to it...

[@McPhisto]

Caucashaun

[@aboxintheblack9530]

ghost fire Rich black people aren’t oppressed.

[@Muddyres]

I as a black man appreciate the prospective of a white progressive because you’ve been a fly on the wall and can blend in places and hear things we can’t

[@saltandprepper5024]

It's extremely common. Which is why I call bullshit on other white people who says racism isn't real because they either ignore the abhorrent shit said or they say that shit

[@xavier4519]

@@saltandprepper5024 Or they're just oblivious of what's going on. i know that because i was that alt right rabbit hole kid who said minorities aren't oppressed. I know the world sucks right now and a shitload of people are dying every day because of this but it's not the guy's fault for being indoctrinated by political pseudo intellectuals, i think a bit of empathy in that case goes a long way on changing people's minds

[@saltandprepper5024]

@@xavier4519 I understand that perspective I feel that falls under the ignoring section, it can be noticable or not noticable to the individual.

[@xavier4519]

@@saltandprepper5024 but how can you ignore something you can't see?

[@saltandprepper5024]

Well after last year and actively choose not to listen and blow it off it's people actively not wanting to learn. Don't get me wrong, I give credit to those who get out but at this point most have to actively not give a shit

[@James_Wisniewski]

>the fact that she's Muslim means she can't be European I didn't know that Bosnians and Albanians weren't European! Wow, Richard Spencer taught me something new, today.

[@soupsoup4245]

Let's just.. ignore all of southeastern Europe, apparently.

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

Upon conversion to Islam, even the whitest person will swiftly develop a chestnut complexion. This is just science, my dude.

[@TheKalihiMan]

You’d also have to throw out nearly 800 years of Spanish history.

[@jKLa]

Many Italians view Albanians as practically Arabs... 🙄 Lots of Albanian migrant laborers in Italy.

[@juliankirby9880]

Samuel I’m from the metro Detroit area. We have a huge immigrant community. I can confirm other European immigrants treat Albanians as the “other”. It’s fucking weird.

[@NonCompete]

"Race isn't real, but racism is very real" - nice line I just picked up from Re-Education. FANTASTIC video, Slimeo. I'm gonna be sharing it literally daily in my shitty comments section.

[@Vercettislugger]

Aren't you that guy in Vietnam who makes videos?

[@NonCompete]

@@Vercettislugger yup

[@seacue9417]

Emerican Johnson is my favorite noted white person

[@Taeerom]

I think it is important to aknowlegde the existance of race as a social category. But for sure, race as a biological category is an absolute bollocks concept when talking about humans. Race exist as a biological category for species like dogs and horses, and there is some evidence that there has existed different races of humans in the past. But now, we're all Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

[@aboxintheblack9530]

NonCompete Rich black people aren’t oppressed.

[@Lyendith]

I'm far from offended − actually you've put into words everything I thought on this issue but that I couldn't quite articulate. In France, anti-racist activists use an interesting word − "personne racisée" (racialized person) to designate what Americans would call "people of color". It's an interesting choice of words since it emphasizes the idea that race isn't something that inherently exists but something that other people attribute to you.

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

I like that. I’m using “racialized person” from now on

[@ostsarahb7466]

Yeah, I wish people wouldn’t use the same word (race) to talk about a biological concept and a social construct. “Race” within the human species is a social construct, we don’t actually have races in the way that other animal species like dogs or cats have.

[@gpenicaud]

I kind of didn't like "racisé" because I felt like it tried to hide an objective fact (the colour of someone's skin), but your comment made me change my perspective on it for the better.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@@gpenicaud but the color of somebody's skin isn't really a distinct feature, is it? I know quite a few people that either spend every vacation on some beach or visit sun studios with tanning banks as often as they can, who have basically all year round a nice solid "hardwood floor color" to their skin, despite having parents that can be used to pick wedding dress colors... Obama would have been less tanned than them, but it does not cause anybody to cross "racial borders" as it's more about privileges and denying them to some groups than about factual categories...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@Lyendith that is an interesting concept. I will try to remember that, although i'm not sure if it can translate well into german. "ver-rasst" does not sound good.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

I'm a person of Lezgi ethnicity, indigenous to the Caucasus. It upsets me very much that I can't describe myself as Caucasian because the word was stolen from us.

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

You can't "steal" something abstract like a word. There is nothing stopping you from using that word to describe yourself.

[@tomgoodwin7134]

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus shut up

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

​@@tomgoodwin7134 What is your problem?

[@domeplsffs]

Hey brother from another mother! Sitting in the same boat here. I'm basically white - but well, not the right white it seems xD

[@bruh3457]

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus you can absolutely steal abstract concepts, since ownership is abstract anyways. And even if you couldnt, language is not a personal endeavor. We use language to convey ideas to other people, not to ourselves.

[@papi_dummy]

another note is that black people have "black pride" bc we literally can't have "nigerian pride" or "ghanaian pride" or whatever - our knowledge of where our ancestors came from has been stolen from us. our last names come from white people, our language is largely from white people, and our most common ethnonym, "black," is a product of this

[@konyvnyelv.]

You just have no culture. Especially in Africa

[@These-nutz]

Your African ancestors are responsible

[@MrTeniguafez]

My friend is half white and half Chinese, and grew up in Singapore. He's said on occasion that being mixed raced means that "you're always the other thing"; in the US, people call him Asian, and in Singapore, people call him white. As a very, very white person, it was interesting to think about.

[@DiMagnolia]

It’s the same for me. Not just ethnically but also culturally. I’m the white cousin with my Mexican family and the Mexican cousin with my white family. Overall though, I feel much more “othered” with my white family because I am viewed as inferior or tainted whereas with my Mexican family it’s much more innocuous. My white family is actually racist, whereas my Mexican family just teases me sometimes for my quirky gringo-isms.

[@devongronka855]

There's a pretty big list of post-colonial authors who have this perspective- always being on the "outside" no matter where they were. Edward Said is a great start; Fanon is another big one. Fanon can be a bit jarring, but you have to remember he was writing in opposition to some truly horrific brutality against the civilian population in Colonial French Algeria.

[@LordOfElysium]

@@DiMagnolia huh •~•” As a majority white person i judge white people a lot more then people of colour and I’m much faster to jump to conclusions and to make assumptions about them. I didn’t realize that was just a me thing-

[@A-A_P]

The concept of belonging and in-group are to my (beware, outsider-ist) knowledge very, very important to many asian cultures, to a point of xenophobia even (although, any locals can correct me on the matter, if they see it otherwise or feel that I'm misrepresenting them). Whiteness is pretty, darker skin associated with sunburnt manual labour in certain, even highly developed places...but even whites, especially with e.g. lighter hair and so on may feel alianating, especially to ones not accustomed to the globally interconntected society.

[@mariarez4014]

As a European, "white identity" as a concept has always baffled me. The suggestion that I should feel a sense of innate kinship to a, for example, Swedish person on account of a "shared culture" is simply absurd because my culture is Spanish culture. Europe is very distant from being culturally homogenous, and despite that, people claim that being of European descent entails that you share an identity with anyone who can claim the same. Nonsense.

[@RugnirSvenstarr]

It's a lot easier in America, where their relationship to their heritage is a lot less distinct. Think of the classic idea of someone calling themselves German-american, but not speaking much German and only using it as an excuse to get drunk on Oktoberfest (which is more of a Bavaria thing than all of Germany) It's a lot easier for that guy to feel like the guy next to him who is an "irish-american" are from the same kind of culture.

[@mariarez4014]

@@RugnirSvenstarr oh yeah, I know that that's the case for Americans, the problem is that when many of them try to build a case for it they talk about 'the West' and uphold the pretension that us Europeans widely ascribe to sharing a 'white identity', which to me shows either ignorance or willful distortion. It's like when in American sitcoms, they have throwaway jokes about how 'in Europe, they actually [insert risqué/unorthodox action here]'. To a European, a joke like that just seems out of touch because Europe isn't a monolith. To be fair, to an extent it makes sense that they have such a conception of the continent given that its nations are relatively small, but it just doesn't reflect reality.

[@Taeerom]

@@mariarez4014 The absolute hog shit about defending "western traditions" and stuff like that really crumbles when oyu point out that both Marx, Engels, Proudhon, Focoult, Bordieu and a lot of other philosophers that they are afraid of are all proponents of western traditions.

[@ΒασιλικήΚ-β9χ]

Exactly. I'm (mostly) greek and my upbringing is in no way similar to that of a German or British person. Most Europeans are divided by language, culture, history and philosophy, but Americans seem to forget that. This reinforces the fact that Americans (from the USA) can't seem to be united by the fact that they are American, and rely on heritage, they are not even sure of, and on culture they have clearly lost to bring them together. People from Latin America (with of course some exceptions) seem to be content with describing themselves with "Mexican", "Venezuelan" etc, even though their nations were formed similarly to the USA, without sticking to color to categorize each other. Correct me if I'm wrong with that last statement, I am in no way guaranteeing that this is correct as I'm not Latin.

[@Taeerom]

@Feli Aslan White/europpean culture only makes sense for americans (or other settler colonies). The same with Asian/East Asian. Just Chinese culture is so diverse form other Chinese cultures that you really can't find any shared stuff except relatively recent history. And even then, americans of today can't even figure out who's part of that shared Europpean heritage. Sometimes Greeks and Jews are in, sometimes not. Sometimes arabs are white, but recently they're not. People of western Europpean descent are in, but not if their ancestors settled in the South American continent. It is completely arbitrary and fictional. These (white, black, asian, whatever) are categorites that are only useful to lump people together into different groups so that they fight each other rather than capital. At least a national or local identity is giving you common ground with people you share some interests with, despite it ignoring internal power structures. This mythological "white" or "europpean" heritage is just complete bollocks.

[@bartfart3847]

I wish more "white" people would think like you. You speak so well. (inside joke with black folks)

[@ChrisMaxfieldActs]

@K B No, as in many bigots pretend to compliment some BIPOC by saying "they speak so well," as if it's surprising that a human being "of color" could have a decent education or speak coherently.

[@jazzman.]

And he is so intelligent and doesn't smell bad.

[@666mads]

PLS THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS

[@GraafMaertn]

@@sam.7661 Oof... I know you're joking, but I'm gonna need some eyebleach anyway.

[@urbanagoge7598]

He's one of 'the good ones'

[@face_nemesis]

I feel bad because a few years ago in a history class, the professor said "race isn't real, but race is important" and I didn't get it and felt super confused. And its only this year that I feel like I'm starting to really understand what that means.

[@kingzod8536]

@Epstein Passengers Vote Democrat actually when you take in account people's groups like Yemenis, dominicans and creoles mullatos, you see how race isn't really a "real" or "strong" concept, being how much it depends on how you self and other people define you and how definitions change over time.

[@kingzod8536]

@Epstein Passengers Vote Democrat I am saying race is a human social construct, which can't be "real" or defined because different human and social groups have different concepts of race, some people view of race comes from there religion or there culture, some there skin color. And when I was talking about mullatos,creoles, and Zambos, it was an example of this as it shows how race changes depending on the social group you are apart of, people we would put In the racial category of say black, or Hispanic. Are put into other groups because they have a different social construction of race than ours, even though these groups are working with the same races as us they have different constructs. Race isn't real.

[@kingzod8536]

@Epstein Passengers Vote Democrat not really alot of things are though, and that doesn't make them real there was a time before we had a construct and there is a good chance in the future, the social construct will be completely destroyed which is a good thing.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@delar1983 "its sad that people taught you that." Why would it be sad? The teacher literally taught them that while Race is an artificially constructed label it STILL has repercussions for how people are treated in today's daily life due to the systemic racism of modern society. Which is NOT a good thing and i do not understand it as if the teacher MEANT it to be seen as good.

[@vurpo7080]

Money also isn't "real" (pieces of paper have absolutely no inherent value, but we have invented our own reasons for why we want those pieces of paper) but it definitely is important. Gender and race and money are all those kind of things, that we have all invented in our collective imagination, but that is very "real" and important to us.

[@joshuahitchins1897]

"Anti-white elites" Why is my dog barking?

[@domeplsffs]

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[@fluffynator6222]

They talkin about Juice.

[@bettyunicorn6132]

@@fluffynator6222 no not juice jus

[@mintbericrunche9437]

Malcolm X in his Autobiography talked about how the Dutch settled Harlem and subsequently Italians, Irish, etc. (I forget the order in which they migrated) started coming and were initially viewed as “The Other” but eventually assimilated into “white culture” due to their skin colors. All this stuff is well-documented. The concepts of race and racism are so stupid and destructive; it hurts.

[@volaalov6254]

A similar thing happened here in Australia, where we had the disgusting "White Australia Policy" up until 1966. There was racism hurled at Italians, Greeks, etc., yet now they and the culture they brought here are ingrained into Australia, and they're considered "white" now.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

"it hurts" yeah....

[@joeMama-ls5km]

Race is a biological thing how can you say it isnt? People are clearly different not just in skin color, have you seen an albino black person? They don't look very white do they?

[@avinashreji60]

@@joeMama-ls5km you know nothing about biology

[@joeMama-ls5km]

@@avinashreji60I'm very sorry please accept my apology, it is great to be in your presence, I'm sure you are very intelligent

[@mlm628]

The stupidity of that Richard Spencer clip made me astral project jfc

[@TheSerfsTV]

Weekly ThoughtSlime is such a wonderful thing

[@zljmbo]

Blessed be

[@minnieral]

The Serfs praise be to slime

[@YEET-yh6qc]

The only wonder left untuched by man.

[@joncoda365]

Wait, so even Richard Spencer doesn't know what a White people is? Makes me feel better about my confusion.

[@ApocalypticRenegade]

Tbf I don't think RIchard Spencer knows what anything is, except maybe a right hook

[@crunchyfries4501]

White people are whatever Richard Spencer needs them to be.

[@Alienami]

It's just a caste system of sorts.

[@stevek5787]

There was a long discussion on the Nazi website Stormfront trying to decide who was white. Eventually they all gave up. Suffice to say, as they gain power the definition will become more limited. As you can never be pure enough for Nazis

[@joncoda365]

Alien Ami a caste system huh? I guess I’d be an untouchable then.

[@angela_merkeI]

The rascist in the video was right for once: the Afghani woman was sort of an Aryan. The term "Aryan" was an self designation of Indo-European speaking peoples from Iran to North Eastern India. Iran for example comes from it (Aryan-> Eran - > Iran) and most of northern India speaks Indo-Aryan languages. Later the term was hijacked by European nazis. So the woman can be considered Aryan.

[@izunahosaki6133]

Wow i didn't know that, but it makes sens that it comes from sanskrit (after Google Search) as the nazi symbol was also taken from there

[@nunyabisness7055]

@@izunahosaki6133 Actually, the Swastika is common in all Indo-European Cultures. It got hijacked by the nazis because it was found in Germany (as well as from the Netherlands through the baltic and slavic lands and yes, down to Iran and India)

[@franciscojcsa6127]

Need to know her Native language to know if she speaks indo-aryan

[@loading6333]

@@izunahosaki6133 *racist

[@izunahosaki6133]

@@loading6333 wut

[@Emajenus]

"The white identity includes all people of white skin colour who are European (but not the icky European like Irish, the good ones only) and those who also carry the white genes as long as they're not Muslims (because that changes their genes to the bad ones somehow) or Jewish (depends on the type of Jew, they can be okay or not). Restrictions may apply based on personal prejudice."

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

In other words, it’s arbitrary.

[@DavidRamirez-se2yt]

​@@FrankCastle-tq9bz 🎉🎉🎉 congratulations you got the joke🎉🎉🎉 It's probably a good thing you spelled it out for racists that my stumble around her. Not sarcastic.

[@jimhaverlock9784]

It's ALWAYS about skulls with these ding-dongs...

[@Holly-si3sr]

I don't feel good now. LOL.

[@WraithMagus]

Send for Lady Foppington! We have been far too long without a proper discourse on phrenology!

[@elijahelkwood5459]

Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna go binge some Contrapoints videos now

[@jimhaverlock9784]

@@elijahelkwood5459 that's always a good idea.

[@katherinemorelle7115]

It must needs be remarked!

[@soccerskyman]

"Ice cream is racist." - Thought Slime 2019

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

but what about black ice cream, huh!?!

[@pashlyn]

@@sofia.eris.bauhaus Now I want black cherry ice cream thanks for that

[@nomeansno5481]

Wow, you SJWs just wanna make everything about race, huh?

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

@@m.k9471 I think he did it's just that sarcasm doesn't travel well over the internet.

[@riccardoolivieri1159]

@@jghifiversveiws8729 That's why the new HTML5 specification by the W3C will contain the '' and '' tags. The exact behaviour of those tags will be browser-specific, but it should always be funny.

[@JonahPleatherbooth]

I'm of Irish, Italian and Lithuanian decent. But ultimately my identity is being some asshole from New Jersey. Disco fries forever

[@riflebusters1]

Wow,that awesome

[@suzieQna]

Haha

[@jeffii9890]

Never heard of these...Googled them...Now I'm going to blame you _personally_ in my will for my untimely death and that my children will no longer have a father due to the massive heart attack that is my eventuality.

[@drakgan]

This. American First.

[@Dragonite43]

New Jersey!

[@ladydynamite7]

You summed up the book "how the Irish became white" in three sentences. You've got a new subscriber in Ireland now :D loved the vid, thanks a mill.

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B so white is Germanic. And the people of northern France in Brittany aren't white now. Or the Basques. Thanks for defining white.

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B they're more European than Indo-Europeans.... so is white a language group now? Because then Iranians and Iraqis are white.

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B that's stupid, the culture of the elites is not what makes a peasant one race or another. You said Anglo is white, and Celts aren't Anglo so they can't be white. But lots of other people are considered white but aren't Anglo.

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B you cited developments in court and philosophy as what made Anglos different from Germans, which is definitely a thing only elites cared about. It doesn't determine ethnicity. So British people aren't white now since they're mixed with celts? What the hell are you talking about?

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B also, so any American is white now? There were people in America before and after Europeans came, and their culture largely was replaced by colonists culture which you call American and White. Blacks were also here in America longer than most current American's ancestors, so are they American and white?

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

This makes me proud that I'm descended from 12th century Steppe Nomads, who changed their racial designations whenever the hell they wanted.

[@tangent94]

Had a Uzbekistani-American friend who loved to look her boyfriend dead in the eye and go "honey? Am I white?" And watch him squirm.

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

@@tangent94 Kazakhs are white in the USA. I wonder if Uzbeks are too?

[@kylewilliams8114]

@K B Anglo isn't and has never been the definition of white. Otherwise actual German people, like Bavarians, or Swiss aren't white by your definition since the Angles left mainland Europe in the 5-600's and weren't the forbears of modern Germans.

[@sparrowhawk81]

So sick of Richard Spencer and his identity politics.

[@minghuachen1900]

Agree, but your side's identity politics sucks too.

[@cossaizy6309]

@@minghuachen1900 our side's identity politics?

[@MLBlue30]

@@cossaizy6309 shhhh he's trying to wave away his racism.

[@nitrosophelin]

@@cossaizy6309 it's called neo liberal false dichotomy

[@cossaizy6309]

@@nitrosophelin I think I attempted what we call sarcastic mockery of our dear friend Chen

[@zmdumpbox2340]

It's a lot easier to imagine what it is to be Italian or American or Canadian than what it is to be White. So there are a lot of thoughts I would like to throw out there, to see if anyone would like to stew on them for a bit. I'm an Asian-American, by the way, very specifically of Taiwanese-Chinese descent. 1) One of my Chinese language professors in college basically looked like a blonde, bespectacled Egon Spengler, one of the Whitest-looking scholars you could ever meet. But his passion for things China was immense enough in his college days that it inspired him to study abroad in China, master Mandarin Chinese with NO foreigner's accent whatsoever, and thoroughly internalize the picturesque aura of a Chinese learned scholar. Aside from his skin color, he so thoroughly understood, respected, and embodied the classic image of a scholarly man of China that, to me, it was incredibly hard to regard him as anything other than a Chinese man. (We Asians would semi-jokingly, semi-seriously bestow types like him the title of "honorary (Asian ethnicity).") If these White supremacist ding-dongs ever met this professor, they'd be flummoxed in regarding him as truly White. 2) I've met several friendly liberal White people over the years who would lament that they were born White, because they grew up in a well-integrated environment with a rich diversity of ethnic backgrounds and a wealth of cultural sharing - their Whiteness was notable in that there wasn't even a specific European ethnic artifact to contribute to the pool. I remember one girl who said would spend every opportunity at her Filipino friends' house to absorb her friends' ethnic culture, so she's pretty familiar with code-switching back and forth between being White and blending in to a Filipino environment. I have a White friend who has hung out with me and our Asian friends so much that he never misses a beat, and we don't ever really notice any social awkwardness or faux pas he might have committed hanging out with us over the years. He considers himself of distant French descent, but otherwise considers himself much more thoroughly categorized as White (and laughs at the concept of White supremacy as anything more or other than "the absence of racialization"). 3) As a yellow POC, I've always wondered what benefit there is to gain from White supremacists being so exclusionary aside from the preservation of racial privileges. It just isolates them from the rest of the world. Rather, I'd be extremely happy if other POCs were to be genuinely enthusiastic about learning and adopting some of the cultural beats of Asian-ness into their cultural identity, and I'd be really excited if other POCs would extend that same attitude to me, show me their inner workings (including their faults) and allow me to adopt some of their cultural beats into my cultural identity. That way, we all become adept at some cultural code-switching, and the cross-cultural familiarity would allow for cross-cultural pollenation and cultural desegregation. (My friends often semi-joked that the one Black dude in our group was the most Asian of us all, because of the many cultural beats he internalized into his personal identity.) Like you advocated in your last video... *racial integration is more fun.* 4) We love you, comrade.

[@erowe6153]

The human race? WHAT ABOUT NASCAR?

[@xxcelestialdreamxx7709]

Now that my friend is white culture

[@societysmostambiguousgirlb1495]

I'm white. I'm also Italian-American. We're usually still considered white, but like, "less". I've had black people say "she's not white, she's Italian" to me even though I'm pale and blue-eyed. We came over to America in a separate wave from the original white colonizers, so I guess our culture is Too Different from the established norm and we're now this slightly racialized other within the white group. We have the funny accents, and the Italian language, and specialized food, but once my family got rid of those things and assimilated, we became Plain Old White, because we're still European. The difference is that no matter how much a black person assimilates, they will obviously never be seen as white. Whiteness is a category that people of European descent can fit into if they culturally neutralize. My father is like, a guido. He has swarthy tan skin and he speaks Spanish fluently, but he's not of Spanish or Latino descent, just Italian. But he probably passes as a "Mexican" to most people in America. Is he white? How much does perception factor into someone's white privilege?

[@coreyroeters8856]

There are a lot of It Italians where i live, and they are not considered "less" at all, they are a great part of the community.

[@MegaVirus700]

@@coreyroeters8856 now they are. While america was becoming industrialized and receiving waves of immigrants from europe they were pretty looked down upon

[@vsaucepuppet697]

I mean the vast majority of "white" Americans came to America 1850s and onward

[@MasterHaloOne]

Ask rapper logic

[@flyingstonemon3564]

I never understood why this thinking even existed, if being white is being from europe then italians are just as white as a british or german, when I learnt a few years ago some people from the US didn't see italy and spain as white I was both mortified and dying from laughs, It makes no sense at all.

[@alicereid3308]

Sometimes, I briefly worry. I used to be a fan of people like Ben Shapiro, or Crowder, or those KZbin skeptics. They were a big part of my childhood, and I worry about maybe one day returning to those ideas. Then I listen to someone like Richard Spencer talk and those worries disappear like sand through fingers

[@jjjx32]

but when do we measure the skulls???

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Would they measure Shauns skull and judge him accordingly? Probably lol.

[@rebekahcastro5430]

Go away foppington 😂

[@Bimtavdesign]

At 7:21

[@n.l.g.6401]

@Mark Dion Gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with the systemic oppression of non-whites dragging the QoL average down, thus proving Slime's points about whiteness being an arbitrarily-assigned social privilege... Whoops!

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Mark Dion why are you here? And why are you copy pasting the same damn comments under different threads?

[@terryweaver9140]

Leave a jar of mayonnaise out on the bench for a week and you'll get plenty of white culture.

[@riccardoolivieri1159]

Oh my God, gross! I can smell the stench in my head! Also, 11/10 for the pun (o^▽^o)

[@angelineturner3298]

And that's genuine white culture, well done for the lols!

[@alwayschanging5821]

What's with that stereotype? I don't get it

[@terryweaver9140]

@@alwayschanging5821 mayonnaise is white a growth of mould can be called a culture

[@alwayschanging5821]

@@terryweaver9140 ah ok lol. Gross

[@kingchoadtastic]

hi T-Slime, wanted to make a quick suggestion that any video of Richard Spender be accompanied by the video of him getting punched, please :) great video have a blessed day

[@blackanimecat2]

A plus a great and valuable contribution.

[@siliconebaby6270]

Yes, just loop that video with the audio of whatever he's saying. We don't need to see his fat face saying it

[@WraithMagus]

It really never does stop being funny. Whenever I have a bad day, I just want to curl up with a bowl of racist ice cream and watch Richard Spencer being punched on a loop for an hour.

[@Tea_Noire]

I usually don't condone violence but I can make an exception for Richard Spencer lol

[@mcFreaki]

@@WraithMagus it's like Steven Yaxley-Lennon getting milkshake thrown at him, or that one australian politician guy getting egged by a particularly nonchalant teenager. it's never not gonna be funny to see the fash get owned in some way.

[@ratatataraxia]

Until I was about 12 years old I thought I was half white, until I found out I only got my fathers last name not his genes. Since then, being Mexican American and looking Mexican, but being white on paper, my last name is Nicholson after all, has let to some very funny job interview situations.

[@christiandivita6958]

"Chow down on my whole hog." - Thought Slime

[@barzinlotfabadi]

(Canadaland theme plays in the background)

[@doubleh333lix]

I just caught this during lunch at school lmao. “Sorry guys I can’t talk I need to watch a video on white identity”

[@samkern108]

School is for learning! ;D You did the right thing! haha

[@anonamouse1957]

squishy salamander if you were in England you would have been bullied from then on mercilessly

[@phaedrus4931]

♪ ♫ Lay that funky wisdom white boy Lay that funky wisdom racially uncategorized representative of a falsely normative populous ♪ ♫

[@bjazure13]

Wow, thanks for the lol. This comment made my night!

[@luisa146]

I'm italian and from what I undestand italians weren't considered white until not very long ago in America, am I right? I find it funny because most do have white skin and obviusly european ancestry lol.

[@chaosvii]

MrHazyDayz lmao

[@Rabbittavo]

You are correct

[@MaskedIG]

Jewish People and Italian people were looked down upon once. Stan Lee would attest to that.

[@tofu_golem]

I've lived in Europe. Italians and Greeks are *still* not considered white by European racists.

[@scusachannel1682]

@@tofu_golem Wait, really?

[@MrPooleish]

I knew a girl in Highschool who insisted Irish, Scottish, and Italians were not white. She held a lot of other messed up ideas which all seemed tied to her weird religious beliefs.

[@Dorkeydaze]

Irish and Scottish are literally the most white people out there.

[@markhmacd]

"Whoa what's up with these turtles?! Look at these weird turtles!" - Charles Darwin, 1862

[@NikitaOnline17]

Werewolves are majority white? Citation needed

[@jordanetherington1922]

I haven't seen any black werewolves

[@Alienami]

@futilethewinds Those aren't _real_ werewolves, they're just wolf men. Big difference! Just like Irish people, Semitic people and White people... *Only* white people are _real_ white people, duh! That's just good *old fashioned* _science!_ 😂 (Obvs. sarcasm; fuck white hubris and caste system.)

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

@futilethewinds Well in the Great Grimoire known as "Vampire Diaries," a first hand account of them that couldn't be farther from the truth!

[@Arrakiz666]

You'd think they'd be majority Native American. You know, on account of the usual coding of Werewolves.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

@@jordanetherington1922 Micheal Jackson was an awesome werewolf in his video "Thriller". And there's also a movie where the werewolf is played by a Black guy but I can't remember which. I'm more into science fiction than fantasy so I haven't seen many werewolf movies.

[@MakNCheese88]

This reminds me of a vid by Moviebob from years ago. He talked about this same concept, but in comic books. There was a picture of "The New Avengers", with each member in their unique costumes: Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-man.... and Luke Cage, in a tank top, also he's Luke Cage and not Power Man. See, Luke doesn't need a costume or a pseudonym, because he's already unique, he's black. White people in comics were always seen as the default that required a new identity. Whereas black people were already different, so they didn't need all the fancy bells and whistles of others. It hasn't been until recently that non-white characters have been getting a more equal treatment. Black characters in the 70's were based around their race. Luke Cage (blacksploitation), Black Lightning (obvious), even John Stewart was known as "the black Green Lantern". So when I head people saying "the left" (btw not defining what that means) always divides people by grouping them into race and other categories, I feel it's because they have never had to deal with division themselves. They've never been put into a category, and then had handicaps put on them because of that category. It's a position of privilege that they don't recognize, and that's kind of the point of bringing it up in the first place.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

The only skull I would think about taking seriously is that British skull aka Shaun.

[@Aconitum_napellus]

He is one of our greatest skulls on KZbin.

[@alyssahansen1400]

What if you found a human skull in your basement? Would you take that seriously? And what about animal skulls? Those are pretty cool, huh? What about fossils? I love bones. Bones are awesome. And sorry about my comment (this very same one). I have a weird impulse to poke arbitrary holes in casual assertions that clearly miss the point of the original comment.

[@demilembias2527]

I love your username. Do not forget our adage. Fear the old soy.

[@JetBalrog]

I... really, truly, honestly realize something I've never done: I've never actually tried to define what being "white" is. It was just a fact of being... whatever it is I am. Describing it the way you did, however, really, truly made it click for me. Why the hell should I consider myself "white" anyways? The thing is, I never did, I never even *really* considered myself American, either. I consider myself more affected by the region of the USA I live in, this general shared culture of people from the area I grew up in. *That* is what I identify with: the food, celebrations, music, and the like of the people who were around me when I was younger. The fact that the people that led to me coming into being made cool stuff like that means that I have the possibility to do cool stuff like that. That's what matters to me. Not being "white". Not being "not what white people aren't"

[@mechatyrants6218]

Dick Spencer went the long way around to say his definition of "whiteness" is whatever he (and his nazi pals) decide, to the extent that it includes assumed heritage, skin color, religion, political affiliation, and country of origin, and likely anything else they feel like. It's kind of like what you said - that being white isn't a particular culture or group of people, but rather a lack of identifiers that signify one as part of another particular group. This is, of course, the same logic that leads white extremist groups to demonize white minorities, such as LGBTQ people, who don't fit the ever-shifting, nebulous in-group that they deem to be the real "white people".

[@douglasphillips5870]

Aw! For a minute, I thought I was gonna get to be a goblin.

[@pumpkinpartysystem]

Now you're not a gnelf, or a gnoblin.

[@reallue]

Goblins, the perfect race

[@fuzzybuzzy3159]

Goblinhood is an identity, you can be one if you wish.

[@Jess-ds1dw]

GOBLIN 👏 IDENTITY 👏 IS 👏 VALID 👏

[@Alienami]

Or just call it a caste system...because that is closer to what it is.

[@jondo553]

Caste system externally, class system internally.

[@michealdavisprince]

Werewolves are not majority white, most of us are mixed.

[@S4RGE007]

werewolves are not real.

[@michealdavisprince]

@@S4RGE007 wow, you must be fun at parties.

[@BBoyd-bt3hy]

Ok TRON, fyi I killed a werewolf in my yard one night. Unfortunately by the time i tracked it down it had turned back into my Armenian neighbor. Explain that wiz-kid?!? Checkmate.....

[@robertstan298]

@@S4RGE007 woof!

[@tinamoul]

@@BBoyd-bt3hy Dude, I think you just killed your neighbor. 😨

[@nitroanvilhead5229]

I'm from the french south east, my culture is so obviously different from any of the cultures of the bordering countries heck there are even significant differences between the cultures of each region of the country, dialects, accents, architecture, traditions etc i'm not even particularly tuned into my heritage and I can still notice those every other day the fact that anyone, especially any european, could ever say there's a unified white culture or white race is baffling

[@acidroofproductions9378]

"I come from St. John's Newfoundland" *hits subscribe at the speed of sound*

[@Жаба-и5к]

Oh my god oh my freaking god this is epic Thought Slime uploaded oh my freaking god no freaking way

[@Жаба-и5к]

@oscar werner yes, but I have no money

[@Жаба-и5к]

@oscar werner wtf i hate capitalism now

[@davidlundy9699]

Ben Shapiro I have A.O.C. foot pics

[@Жаба-и5к]

@@davidlundy9699 ohmg omg oh my god om.g please send I have been tweeting at her for months now asking for them and she keeps ignoring me oh my god please i need those feet pics please i will do anything

[@Жаба-и5к]

@Mark Dion why are you here

[@Mrcockington]

You make me proud to be a goblin.

[@saladcaesar7716]

I need a goblin pride parade.

[@HoundofOdin]

We prefer the term "Goblinoid American".

[@genessab]

Hi I just wanted to again say how wonderful and attractive and valid you are and be sure to stay safe and emotionally healthy and also I love you 💕

[@sketchtown6663]

I know that was meant for thoughtslime, but still I needed to hear that, thanks :)

[@returnofbeaux]

awwww

[@riflebusters1]

Thank you so much I wish the best for You!

[@genessab]

Sketchtown666 no it was meant specifically for you 💕

[@genessab]

Simon Cowell actually it was geared specifically with you in mind 😊💕

[@ravenorlock9486]

Watched this on the same day that it announced that Italy’s election resulted in a fascist Prime Minister. We never learn, do we?

[@Sealdrop]

the studio must have been 800 degrees

[@allorgansnobody]

I think it's actually a makeup thing. I don't do film set stuff but IIRC basically anybody would look like they just finished running a decathalon if you put them in front of one of those big set light fixtures w/o the proper makeup.

[@thessaalders9770]

I've been digging through my D&D 5e books and, FYI, Goblins are super oppressed. All jokes aside though, this video is great and thank you for making the things you make, thank you so much.

[@PforPanthera]

Tbh we constantly make fun of the goblin in my current campaign. He's also played by a kid who makes a lot of bad decisions so it seems warranted :p

[@saffles.]

Not only are goblins oppressed by non goblins, goblin culture itself is heirachical and oppressive. So like a goblin prole can escape their life in the goblin tribes only to be treated as a villain by non goblins. Sucks to be a goblin.

[@DuskyPredator]

It happened on their deity level. A Hobgoblin god pretty much killed the other goblinoid gods such as of the Goblins and Bugbears, and forced them to be bellow the Hobgoblins. The Hobgoblin life itself is ruled by this god of war that has them constantly ready for battle, and every so often force the Goblins and Bugbears into their armies cannon fodder and shocktroops. The Jester like Nilbog is pretty much the remnant of a crushed goblin god that is somewhat of a spirit of rebellion against the hobgoblin oppression.

[@LeBonkJordan]

see also: _Snuff_ by Terry Pratchett

[@Romanticoutlaw]

woah woah woah, you don't need to go around attacking werewolf identity

[@interestedperson7073]

Hold up!... is being a goblin an option? Cause I’m totally down with being a goblin.

[@Ducannic]

Yes.

[@EloquentTroll]

I'd prefer Orc or Elf, but Goblin is a fair compromise. Any member of the Horde is fine with me. (world of warcraft joke)

[@theoneandonly3283]

Im literally a woodlen elf so go for it dude

[@aprilk141]

Well argued. It's Goblin time everybody!!

[@Warbuss33]

I’ve seen Goblin Slayer so... AGAB All Goblins Are Bastards

[@totallynotapuffball9119]

as a mixed white/asian person, this video was super helpful in helping me understand my identity and why I never like. self-identify as white

[@anzupara8215]

BRO IM FROM NEWFOUNDLAND WHEN YOU SAID YOU WERE FROM NL I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK HELO

[@francinebacone1455]

Ackshually, early European travelers to the New World like Marc Lescarbot and Samuel de Champlain did believe that Native people (Mi'gmaq in this case) were really Europeans (or ancient Canaanites) who had been shipwrecked in the New World and who became brown because they were isolated from European civilization for an extended period of time. There's also the "Three Sons of Noah" narrative which has persisted for quite some time, where Europeans thought that White, Blacks, and Indians were all descended from Noah, who repopulated the world after the Deluge. These people are fucking crazy. I know.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Definitely.

[@hallowfiended]

Bourgs: *create racial categories to divide the proles* The proles: *find out that these categories are vague and lowkey fake and were created to divide the workers* Bourgs: *surprised pikachu*

[@warpsneed9338]

Where has this international worker solidarity across borders and easily-defined genetic racial boundaries ever existed tho. It doesn't. It's just a bougie LARP from actually privileged shitheads in the late 20th/early 21st century.

[@hallowfiended]

@@warpsneed9338 "easily defined" ok then define em

[@warpsneed9338]

@@hallowfiended The 12 categories of classical anthropology hold up really well today and even match up well (near 100% accuracy) with modern genetic testing. Few edge cases of mixed people exist, but no one really gets confused and classifies any kind of European as any kind of African, my dude.

[@warpsneed9338]

@ThisIsMyRealName You didn't refute the central premise, which is that classical anthropology's racial classifications match up with the empirical reality laid out by DNA analysis and is therefore genetic reality. You lose. Stay mad.

[@brano13177]

@@warpsneed9338 Interesting that you argue in support of"the genetic reality of race" and spout long defunct and discredited eugenics psudedosceince as sources even though modern science has long confirmed this thesis to be utter bunk and nonsense. Especially given that their are in fact a lot of mixed raced peoples, including the demographics of those racist white supremacists erroneously and falsely assert are "pure blooded". But given your fancy for debunked junk science born of white supremist racism: you have an estranged relationship with actual facts, truth, science and reality.

[@hollyelise808]

Almost snorted coffee through my nose at "Plato". 💕

[@blackflagg9874]

"Chow down on my whole hog" is the best euphemism ever uttered in human existence.

[@thomasb7464]

15:45 In Germany, declaring one is "proud being a german" is very much frowned upon - for some weird reason. May have something to do with something happening in the 1930s and 1940s.

[@Kapoosh000]

Hmmm. Weird. Wonder what happened then?

[@thomasb7464]

​@@Kapoosh000 They did Autobahns and... stuff, I think.

[@phaedrus4931]

20:26 Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, biblically.

[@Taradoxxi]

This is a super good, concise, and very funny explanation. Excellent job. The section with Spencer’s bullshit hits home infuriatingly for me-as someone who’s mostly Danish, German & Jewish, I inarguably have all the benefits of white privilege-except when Nazi creeps decide I don’t count as white.

[@thewhat531]

I'm Danish, and we are not a race. We are a people made up of mostly Danes, Jutes, and to some extent Anglers and Saxons.

[@thomasdupont7186]

As a French guy, for a long time i didn't understand the anglo saxon (murican) "race" obsession. To me, "class" was a superior filter to understand social dynamics ...

[@Taeerom]

In Europe, we can often substitute "white" with "majority ethnicity" in an European context. I am sure there are frenchmen that cateogrize people based on their lack of frenchness, like Polish, Greeks, Roma, Jews, or whatever. The (true) French has this same kind of non-categorization going for them as American white people, while everyone else has to wear some kind of Other category.

[@jan_Masewin]

Class and race do have a bit of a correlation in the US

[@thomasdupont7186]

@@jan_Masewin No shit, I guess, you are even more racist than us... BUT money do give more power also compared to a few European countriess in my opinion, specially regarding justice.

[@thomasdupont7186]

@@Taeerom "I am sure there are frenchmen that cateogrize people based on their lack of frenchness, like Polish, Greeks, Roma, Jews, or whatever." That is true inn some part of the Frach country, but not that much in big towns (I'm talking about my generation), but may me I'm too optimistic

[@marina.chayka]

@@thomasdupont7186 I'm Jewish and have some family in France, there is defenitely a lot of antisemitism there, Marseille especially seems to be quite unsafe right now.

[@xavierchavez5734]

Did not know how good this channel was! Glad I started watching it!

[@HoundofOdin]

"Welcome to the White People Club!" I kind of want a shirt with that snobby guy in the hat saying this on it, but most people wouldn't get the joke and I have a nasty feeling that someone would punch me in the nose if I wore it in public.

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

There’s a shirt that is a parody of the “Red Skins”, and says “Caucasians”.

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I've been thinking: Racism generally is deeply superstitious. Defining people by a race is practically no different to defining them by their star sign. It has no real basis in reality, but the cultural value is so strong it overtakes that. It has all the hallmarks of superstition and it's no surprise that the likes of Dicky (I prefer to call him "Ricardo Spunkface" but that's just me) also identify as being deeply religious and form strong attachments to conspiracy theories.

[@dbojangles1597]

How so? I mean if you literally view the entirety of a given racial group as having the same psychosocial characteristics down to the man then yea I can see what you are getting at but otherwise defining people be race is rational enough. It's just grouping a set of people groups based on a combination of physical characteristics and historical cultural similarities.

[@Nuibuddy]

D Bojangles ya that's racial prejudice. Which is racism.

[@dbojangles1597]

Ok sure but what it's not is superstition. @@Nuibuddy

[@Nuibuddy]

D Bojangles sure it is. Racial prejudice doesn't rely on actual history. But the belief of what history looked like. Thus it is a superstition.

[@dbojangles1597]

For most people it doesn't rely on history at all but rather observable behavior. @@Nuibuddy

[@Envelion]

I really related to this video. I've been having a hard time articulating what culture I have and what I can claim. I'm a white Southerner who grew up in the woods of Alabama, but I moved to California some time ago. I don't know what my culture really is anymore. I do know that any time I bring up where I'm from, people are pretty shitty about Southerners because well, the South is shitty sometimes. But that leaves me feeling a little like the Southern part of me isn't respected or appreciated. Southern people's are usually just the butts of jokes. I guess what I'm getting at in my ramble is this. The identity of "whiteness" actually makes it harder for white people see what their culture is. It's a tool to separate Caucasians from other races they share culture with, and create some vauge unity that is mostly just used for oppression.

[@jamesworsham2192]

Born to East Texans, grew up in Tennessee, and now living outside of America, I can relate to the awkwardness of wanting to identify as a Southerner while acknowledging the dark past, as well as current reality, of the region. Have you ever listened to the Drive-By Truckers? They really express that identity without devolving into campy propaganda like a lot of country music.

[@Envelion]

@@jamesworsham2192 Never heard of them, but maybe I'll give them a listen. Thanks for relating to me on the topic.

[@pwilll]

Your culture is exactly that - YOUR culture. It's everything you like. It's the music you and your friends talk about. It's the ideas and jokes your family passes around. It's the best restaurant in your town. It's in your accent and vocabulary. It's those things that make you say "holy shit you did that too?" When someone else brings it up to you. It's the family heirloom passed down from generation to generation. It's the drink everyone around you always goes for. Your culture is not your race and your race is not your culture.

[@morguenmorguen6862]

Even as Southerners, there's a lot of disparity between the cultures of Appalachian North Carolina, where I grew up, and Louisiana, which I have never lived within three states of.

[@varis0843]

What you seem to realize is that all life is one life, and that's very refreshing.

[@katherinemorelle7115]

I just have to stop and compliment you on your amazing top hat guy voice. That really was top notch! Simply perfect!

[@magpieMOB]

I'd always been confused by the 'caucasian'/'caucassus' thing, since it's not a point of geographic origin for the whole "race", but I'd never thought to look into it. Thank you for recommending the book, definitely worth a read. Also I love your own work

[@phenababitol]

Racist! (First!)

[@smallseal17]

Ugh, can't believe I had to watch an entire video to discover the secret history of the Sexskull race. And the goblins. Good video.

[@modalisk]

I really love this channel. Honesty and self awareness is something hard to come by with political channels, I feel like I can disagree with some of the points being made without getting turned off to the channel because of it. Really thoughtful stuff with great delivery

[@archer1949]

My Anatolian Greek Grandpa was as dark as your average Mexican or Guatemalan immigrant. Yet he had the good fortune of coming to the US in the 1950’s, when Greeks were considered “White”. If he had come even 50 years earlier, he would have not been part of the “in” group and his skin color would have been a big deal.

[@fafnirlord]

Always have to come back to this video, honestly one of my favourite videos on the internet and what introduced me to the channel!

[@riccardoolivieri1159]

People of BreadTube, this video needs your help! I have completed the English CC, but they need to be reviewed and approved before they become available to everyone! Also, I can't translate them until they are approved. Help this video spread far and wide: review the English CC and translate them into your language! Every little contribution helps!

[@riccardoolivieri1159]

B.U.M.P.

[@Alex_Barbosa]

What is breadtube?

[@LeBonkJordan]

RIP community contributions

[@CaryBassDeschenes]

Excellent video. Shared with my Facebook friends. Waiting for the fragility to hit. Woo!

[@jonm7888]

I'm sure it will start an intelligent and polite conversation.

[@Matter-Dark]

Did the fragility hit?

[@CaryBassDeschenes]

@@Matter-Dark naw, my friends are more "woke" than I thought they were. Or they didn't bother to watch the video b/c of the title.

[@amberb803]

Good vid on addressing a sensitive and complicated subject. Keep them coming Thought Slime.

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

Richard Spencer’s has inconsistent ideas is the nicest way to put that mans thoughts.

[@LeBonkJordan]

More accurately, he says inconsistent things. His ideas are always the same, though: "me best + them bad + you do what me say or else you them"

[@crystalfullerton3908]

People who live in a diverse world and lose it when they see that represented onscreen are truly a special kind of people aren't they? 🙄

[@BlackDogOriginal]

Propaganda

[@squirrel_slapper]

@@BlackDogOriginal What

[@LeBonkJordan]

"That’s why the discount Authoritarianism & Fitch gang starts shrieking like eels in the Straits of Florin around May now, as they feel hives start breaking out in proximity to the barest concept of tolerance and love. It’s why they turn into cartoons with teakettle-steam coming out of their ears every time a gay or trans or darker-than-printer-person person takes a breath in a television show. They used to never ever have to see or hear about _those_ kinds of people unless they were the punchline of a -sneering shitty- “edgy” joke. They used to be able to turn in a thousand directions and only see themselves reflected back. And even now, for more or less the rest of the year, they can pretend to be whatever MAGA tiger blood, high-fructose-corn-syrup-souled, Ayn Rand-fondling, not like other Nazis, cool Nazis they like, but _every year there’s thirty straight days of being reminded they’re full of shit,_ they aren’t the sole focus of marquee culture corporate bearhugging anymore, and their kids probably hate them." -Catherynne M. Valente, "It May Not Be Praxis, But We Need Corporate Pride" (2023-08-23)

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

"Race" is not a meaningful biological concept when speaking about humans. The only human "race" is Homo Sapiens Sapiens, and all other closest races (like neanderthals) have been extinct for tens of thousands of years. What we mean by "race" is a combination of skin tone, social class, and culture, depending on the context.

[@opheliabawles9646]

The human race is mostly the rat race.

[@berlineczka]

Also, the visuals are categorized into phenotypes and there are WAY more of them that the eight or so races the pseudoscientific racism came up with. Like, ten time more or so.

[@Alienami]

The difference between a wolf and a chihuahua is half (of a hard to quantity) percentage difference in mitochondrial DNA or whatever... Modern dog was reclassified as a wolf subspecies, instead of a distinctive species as a result. We are no where even that diverse as humans... So Racists really have to try hard and focus on superficial shit and religion to solidify their *caste system* that just so happens to put them on the top of the system they made... It's like gambling... The house made the rules, is it any wonder the odds are in their favor? And obviously noticing that and complaining about the rules is bad for business...the first rule of the caste system is you don't [publicly] talk about the caste system and attack anyone who does.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

The people we know of now as the "white" race are literally a mixture of Homo Sapiens from Africa and Neanderthals from the Caucuses, "Asians" are are also a mixture of Neanderthals and Denisovans and we all know Homo Sapiens went on to become Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH).

[@erickturck4229]

But...that would be species?

[@jezoye]

Swiftly becoming one of my favourite KZbinrs, loving the mixture of fine content and scathingly funny x

[@R0B1NG5]

Its a strange subject to me personally. I am white and European. But when I look at the way some people here, and particularly in the US just lump white people altogether under the same banner, it doesn't quite sit right with me. More specifically, I'm Irish. Its not that long ago that Irish people were inferior, genetically or intellectually as a race, to the the English, in the opinion of learned English authors. Its not that long ago we were targeted with penal laws to reduce our agency and suppress our culture under the British empire. Its not that long ago we were the "incompatible savages" or lazy and crime-prone degenerates flooding into the civilized society of England, or later, the US. Its not that long ago that the KKK thought Catholicism was some kind of evil religion that was backing the move of catholic people to the US as some kind of mandated, co-ordinated take over, or replacement of good honest folk of protestant stock. Its not that long ago we were the terrorists, who hated everything about England and its monarchy. And yet, in a modern context, we're often just jumped into the whitness blob and that gets paved over in a bigger context, again particularly by white nationalist types in the US. White European historical contribution to the world is just one big positive with no nuance, and we all get caught up in the katamari, regardless of our actual contribution to that as an ethnicity, or how we were held at arms-length by the people who considered themselves the "real" white people of the time. But I can move to a place in scandinavia where some of the older locals will complain about immigrants, yet be very welcoming to me. I can feel a certain amount of guilt about that. Through a combination of low social confidence and choice in college courses, I found myself unemployed for 2 years, receiving welfare for most of that at home. I would feel like a parasitic immigrant if I was to move to a country I was not born in and then find myself in a similar situation, exactly the kind of person these older folks complain about. On paper, I'm from a country associated with terrorism, with elements of racial and religious animus and conflict and I personally don't have a great track record with working and may fall back on welfare, I can barely speak the language, and yet, I get a pass on sight, because of my skin. I'm not looked at the same as someone with darker skin from a war torn part of the world, even if he works his behind off making the most of his opportunity in a more prosperous country. While I just kind of lightly take everything for granted that its all going to be alright, because I'm all white.

[@tonytaioftimestreamer2616]

Sounds like you're discovering white privilege

[@redacted5078]

I think when people say "i hate White people" or "i hate straight/ cis/ abled bodied.. etc people" its not about that group itself but about the society around It that has been built by those groups and against minorities. Im White and when I hear people say they hate White people thats whtat i understand.

[@raptorexo5029]

How about People start saying, that they hate Systems instead of People ? Because saying you hate a certain Group of People is the Start of it all. I'm Romani. And as a Romani, I know very well, how Things like that start. 1 Person saying "I hate White People" might not be that big of a Deal. But 1000 ? 100000 ? Millions ? Once a certain Number is reached, Violence against that particular Group becomes almost inevitable. Racism also started in that Way. Most People were just like "They are different" and that was pretty much it. Not negative, not positive. Until some People started saying "They are different, therefore..." I give you Examples : They are different, therefore we need to protect ourselves from them. They are diffferent, therefore we must not mix with them. They are different, therefore they are inferior. They are different, therefore they are evil. They are different, therefore they are criminal. They are different, therefore we cannot live side by side with them. They are different, therefore they must be treated as such. And when it comes to the "I hate White People" Thing, they may mean the Systems, sure. But who built those Systems ? Who is the Cause of all this ? And that's where Hatred will be born from. Because at some Point, it won't be anymore about just dismantling the Systems. It will be about Payback against the People, who built those Systems. And at that Point, it will be pretty easy to say "We have suffered in the Past, therefore YOU must suffer now". They will hurt People and it doesn't matter then, what they originally meant by saying "I hate White People". If you didn't know (and most People actually don't, cause we always get ignored in this) the Romani People were Targets of the Holocaust alongside the Jews. But I would never go around and say "I hate the Germans". It's just wrong to hate People, who had nothing to do with it.

[@ДмитрийБезбородкин-ж1м]

The most adorable thing about the term "caucasian" is that peoples native to the region (armenians, georgians, azerbaijani, chechens, ossetians, dagestani etc.) are not considered as white by the general stereotipe in post-soviet slavic countries (despite their skin color)

[@cjhunt9532]

As an Irishman, thanks for acknowledging the systemic racism we've faced (and still face!)

[@uumom]

As I was watching the video, I noticed the thumb-down button was blue. I wasn’t sure what that meant, so I clicked the thumb-up button & noticed the number for thumb-down went down. I had accidentally hit it, I guess. Maybe others did, too. Good video; worth the thumb-up.

[@TheLongBallofTheLaw]

Thoughtslime, you are left tube's sweet baby angel.

[@YEET-yh6qc]

I think he's an anarchist

[@FreudRulz]

@@YEET-yh6qc yeah, anarchists are leftists lol, it's also called breadtube for a reason

[@YEET-yh6qc]

@@FreudRulz how is the abolition of power a part of gov parties? I understand his leftist ideas.

[@YEET-yh6qc]

@@FreudRulz dayumn so the French terms left and right are basically mass classification but wouldn't anarchy be more libertarian than authoritarian? Rather than left or right and anarcho capitalist should be right, down but anarchist care for their fellow beings should make them leftist? What about the ones that don't contribute nothing for their neighbors and let the regular course of earth take action in our spices aside from 0 power? So basically if you want to take little and give little with zero power present what would that be just libertarian?

[@FreudRulz]

@@YEET-yh6qc I'm gonna be real dude I have no idea what you're saying but yes, Anarchism is libertarian communism including the abolition of monetary systems and systems of vertical power.

[@chandranelson2772]

I’m second generation Irish American. I’m white, but not pale. People have told me that I don’t look Irish because of my skin tone. Like they don’t know that all skin tones can be found in the country of Ireland.

[@arackofhats5235]

Really solid and well articulated video. Absolutely fantastic video man!

[@Tenchigumi]

Look at any RPG or MMORPG character creator over the past 30 years. The default race is almost always a white human of some sort, while other races and ethnicities are treated as "other options," even in Japanese games. Whether it's the Redguards of Elder Scrolls, the Saracens of Dark Age of Camelot, or the Far East Travelers of Dark Souls, black, brown, and Asian folks are rarely the default (and remember, this is frequently true even in JAPANESE GAMES). I'm not stating this as a complaint, so much as I'm making an observation about how our media portrays whiteness as "normal," while everyone else is "other."

[@thatsterroristsbro7855]

The white thing on his lip is driving me crazy. Can't concentrate.

[@fluffycritter]

I ended up having to cover his face with another window so that I could actually listen to him while being able to look at the visual aids.

[@akaking7499]

It's so funny how my enslaved ancestor was defiled even in death.

[@akaking7499]

@K B it is a beautiful place, that's the problem. Everyone wants it and we are in the way.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

It's interesting. I actually think more of my jacket than my skin color.

[@evandien9947]

I think what it means to be white is to be treated or perceived as someone who is white. If you talk to a child who isn't aware of the concept of race- it doesn't matter your ethnicity... you aren't of any race in that moment. For example, I am of mixed heritage. As luck would have it, I have always been seen as some form of east asian due to my facial features. My sister, is entirely white-passing. Almost no one would even assume she has an ambiguous racial background. Therefore, despite my sister and I having the exact same parents... I would say her race is white and mine is asian in public. However, it goes one step further- within our immediate family we are certainly treated as mixed because they are fully aware of our roots! Therefore, you can have multiple races, or none at all, depending ENTIRELY on how you are perceived. This is what it means to have race, thank you.

[@evandien9947]

And I disagree that white people are treated without the lens of race, in different social circumstances, white people are treated above or below (rarely but for example when talking about certain controversial subjects, white people's opinions are seen as less important) the "average person" in that scenario. To be treated as white is completely different to be treated without your race considered.

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Yeah no races exists for a while and still don't once you're in somewhere cool, all there is just familiar traits until you hit that one age where you meet or talk to people who have the concept of race, then you start to see everything differently because some people may treat you differently