It’s not mundane at all, though.
Saying it implies that it needs to be said, as if in mainstream opinion it was not OK to be white.
It pretends there’s widespread racism against white people.
Since ‘white’ is a category in an artificially created racial hierarchy defined by and predicated on anti-Blackness, I’m not seeing how claims participation in a definitionally racist system is in any way mundane.
If such a mundane statement bothers you, it says more about you than the person who said it.
Imma leave this here since they put it quite nicely. https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/6818226
Also, just read their username and you’ll see it’s clearly exactly what we all think it is.
It’s not mundane at all, though.
Saying it implies that it needs to be said, as if in mainstream opinion it was not OK to be white.
It pretends there’s widespread racism against white people.
So exactly what far right racists believe.
Oh honey, you just said even more about yourself.
Since ‘white’ is a category in an artificially created racial hierarchy defined by and predicated on anti-Blackness, I’m not seeing how claims participation in a definitionally racist system is in any way mundane.
No, it is not “ok” to be white.
Hasn’t been since the concept of whiteness was invented.