Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Eddie Teach]

How much does meme writing pay?

[Syt]

You have to ask idahoansforliberty dot com.

[Oexmelin]

Apparently, 41,000 rubles a month: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

[Oexmelin]

Seen on Facebook:

"Dear white dudes on the internet who think they could handle an armed mass shooter: I've seen your Google reviews. You can't even handle a 15-minute wait for a burger."

[Valmy]

What about other genders and races who think they can handle armed mass shooters?

[Oexmelin]

What about other genders and races who think they can handle armed mass shooters?

Really?

[Eddie Teach]

Really. Why is it ok to make sweeping generalizations about white dudes and nobody else?

[ulmont]

What about other genders and races who think they can handle armed mass shooters?

They aren't nearly as prevalent online.

Really. Why is it ok to make sweeping generalizations about white dudes and nobody else?

...nobody else, as a first approximation, is online talking shit about what they would have done.

[Oexmelin]

Really. Why is it ok to make sweeping generalizations about white dudes and nobody else?

Have you spent any time at all time on social media?

It's a jab at a specific form of white male gun machismo that is incredibly prevalent online. If you have never encountered it, consider yourself blessed.

I have yet to find the vast hordes of black women who brag online that they could have taken down an active shooter with their guns. But you may be better informed than I.

[Malthus]

What about other genders and races who think they can handle armed mass shooters?

They aren't nearly as prevalent online.

Really. Why is it ok to make sweeping generalizations about white dudes and nobody else?

...nobody else, as a first approximation, is online talking shit about what they would have done.

I guess the issue then is whether an invidious racial or sexual generalization becomes non-offensive if it can be plausibly argued that it is true.

[HVC]

they could have used "gun nuts" or any other of quite a few nicknames instead of "white dudes". but using "white dudes" has the extra benefit of annoying white men, so I get why they used it.

[Habbaku]

The masturbatory self-defenses fantasists are one of the worst parts of gun culture.

[Oexmelin]

they could have used "gun nuts" or any other of quite a few nicknames instead of "white dudes". but using "white dudes" has the extra benefit of annoying white men, so I get why they used it.

Gun nuttery in the US is intimately tied with racial politics and white machismo. Contrast with *another* type of gun culture - black revolutionary power - and you'll see the difference clearly enough.

[Valmy]

they could have used "gun nuts" or any other of quite a few nicknames instead of "white dudes". but using "white dudes" has the extra benefit of annoying white men, so I get why they used it.

It is almost a slur the way it is used. "White dudes" is never used as a positive. It is definitely used to dehumanize and demonize.

And in any case I have met more than a few women who were gun nuts. I know that breaks the narrative that your views are entirely dependent on your race and gender though.

[Valmy]

they could have used "gun nuts" or any other of quite a few nicknames instead of "white dudes". but using "white dudes" has the extra benefit of annoying white men, so I get why they used it.

Gun nuttery in the US is intimately tied with racial politics and white machismo. Contrast with *another* type of gun culture - black revolutionary power - and you'll see the difference clearly enough.

Black revolutionary power has no racial politics or machismo component? Or are you saying they are not gun nuts but just a gun culture?