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Eli's avatar

I don't really want "in" on upper-middle class Black America's race... thingy that they're getting. As you point out, it's quite empty.

But also, I object to the Whoopie Goldberg thing for another reason entirely. I don't want American racial categories projected onto the Holocaust at all. I don't think Whoopi Goldberg is a moron. I think that as an educated well-off 21st-century American, she's supposed to be able to understand that American racial categories are not eternal and universal, and that other people in other places and times - for instance Hitler in Germany - might have drawn very different categories. Calling the Holocaust two kinds of "white" people fighting each-other is the opposite of refusing to call it "about race". It's projecting American racial categories onto it, and then using the incoherence of that projection itself to, de facto, dismiss the Holocaust as not worth modern public remembrance or engagement.

And that fucking sucks, just like every other aspect of living in an Eternal Summer 2020 (our apparent social replacement for the Eternal Autumn 2016) sucks. I want acknowledgement that there exists human history outside of Summer 2020.

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Klaus's avatar

I read the linked CNN article, and apparently she said that Holocaust is white people hurting themselves. I guess that's one what of looking at it, but it really shows the shortfall of understanding everything through race. Just bizarre.

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