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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Caucasians count as white, then Iranians are white. A lot of Iranians are also religious and right wing too. The average Republican and the average Iranian would agree with each other on nearly everything if they could somehow have a conversation without divulging their country, clothes, and specific God.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You got it the wrong way around. Race is made up to justify racism.

Italians (and the Irish, too, I think) once didn't count as white, for crying out loud.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Germans too. Benjamin Franklin called them swarthy. "White" has always been a social construct to delineate an ingroup.

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Okay, but if literal Caucasians from Caucasia don't count as white, then wtf does white even mean.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

then wtf does white even mean

nothing, that’s the whole point of whiteness

its a made up in-group created to justify and facilitate european colonialism

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

White is Israel and US Republican elites.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago

"White" is whatever the racists want to establish as the civilized norm which needs to defend itself against the non-white barbarians.

Arguing with "caucasians are from Caucasia" is stooping to the racist's level of discourse. You shouldn't argue with Nazis about the nature of "Aryans", either.

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's anyone who can go out wearing cargo shorts, tall socks, and trainers without being immediately made fun of.