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[TA]

Congratulations, your consciences are clear by virtue of your wonderful guilt.

I'm sorry, what?
Isn't the punchline of the 10 white lies comic that guilt is not an adequate replacement for trying to work past a race-based privilege discrepancy?

No, the point of the comic is pretty clearly that you should feel more guilty about being privileged.  You can't unpack the invisible backpack without incessant tiresome self-flagellation.

[Classic]

I thought the last panel guy expecting a medal for the comic is supposed to be the artist because he's also the first speaker. Wishful thinking then.

I have never heard the "invisible backpack" metaphor before. But... I mean, we do want to unpack that shit at some point, right?

[TA]

That depends whether by "unpack" you mean being aware of privilege and its impact on worldview, or, as it plays out 99% of the time, turn privilege into an internet dick-measuring contest where the person who can check off more oppressed boxes wins and cannot be questioned and holy shit you're a white man you should be kissing my goddamn feet and begging for forgiveness for everything in the world.

[Brentai]

Just to clarify a bit now that I've actually had some sleep and calmed down, I don't believe that self-flagellation was really the intended point of either of those comics, it's just how they came off due to the artist being a little incompetent about getting his point across.

[Pacobird]

Ah yes, who could forget the centuries of persecution of white people based on the common stereotype that they are all purple-robed sorcerers?

<3

Question: given that nobody in Africa actually either dresses like that or dresses in any manner that could evoke that anymore (if they ever had; a subject I am going to pass on), what might have been the motivation for making such an art design decision?  Could they not have dressed the afrozombies up like they were shopping at TJ Maxx and been much more accurate?

[Pacobird]

re: white privilege

rather than wasting time and energy wringing your hands over the existence of privilege of which you could not divest yourself even if you wanted to (you can't stop being white, after all), you could exercise that privilege in a way that seeks to combat the effects of privilege on society as a whole

[Rico]

The maniacally laughing successful black woman unleashing millions of bees into her white audience is particularly fitting.

[McDohl]

I really would like to know the story behind that image.  What was it that Oprah really unveiled that caused everyone to flip their shit like that?

[Smiler]

I am pretty sure that is when she revealed that everyone was getting a free car.

[Brentai]

Not to dreg this topic back up, but that commercial for RE: Mercenaries?  Not helping.

*shot of ebony-black African family looking mortally terrified of something*
*cut to two white people shooting wildly at something off-camera*
*me looking uncomfortably at my family while they watch in confusion*