Everything is racist. Being on time, working hard, discipline are all 'white supremacy' and tools of oppression.
So, apparently, is the written word. Basically anything that involves education and bettering yourself is somehow racist.
And this is an author saying this:
But buy her books.
Or something.
This. All of this.
Literacy, writing, punctuality, work ethic -- those are not traits limited to one class (and hoo boy is it racist to say they are). They are the basic behaviors that make a society function.
But then you can't play the 'white supremacy' and 'victim' cards.
extraordinary
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) July 20, 2024
It really is.
People actually think this way. And post it on X for all to see.
Your written tweet is racist.
— Mary Fernandez 🦖🦕💜🤍💚 MMIW #GC (@MaryFernandez) July 20, 2024
So are her books.
Is the white supremacy in the room with you now?
— 𝔍𝚊𝔪𝚒𝔢 (@OutlandishPS) July 20, 2024
This made us chuckle.
I don't agree with the post to which you're responding, but you have certainly succeeded in replying with an even worse argument.
— K M (@BayesianNuance) July 20, 2024
Quite the accomplishment, no?
Writing was invented by non-Whites, you turnip.
— Jay (@OneFineJay) July 20, 2024
You mean she doesn't know history?
Color us (not) shocked.
Poor/disabled whites struggle with reading and experience lack of access to written text, yes? Maybe think about stop labeling everything that disadvantages lower classes as "white supremacy"
— TBA (@cover81) July 20, 2024
That's somehow different, and they're still privileged. Or something.
I grew up dirt poor. For many poor kids, boredom is more of a problem than being too busy. Reading was a beautiful escape even though I didn’t know how to pronounce the words. I don’t understand your gatekeeping logic.
— Josh Mentanko (@JoshMentanko) July 20, 2024
Anything that can improve one's life and free them from progressive Leftist thinking is bad. Including literacy.
If you have a disdain for the written word presumably because it represents some manifestation of white supremacy to you, I would suggest that you stop writing your thought or comments on X because the only people who will see your drivel are white.
— Chris McClellan (@clmacman) July 20, 2024
And stop selling books to make money off of white supremacy. Yet somehow we don't think that will happen.
Quick, someone please go tell the Chinese and Arabs that they're racist. Thanks.
— Muad'dib (@Patrick_M_Jones) July 20, 2024
She'd probably classify them as 'white adjacent' or some such nonsense.
. . .are you trying to say that poor and/or disabled people don't read? That's kind of insulting.
— TheFilmist 💜 (@HenryJBaugh) July 20, 2024
I have my issues with the OP as well, which I told them directly, but - you know. This is a lot of waffling to say "poor people can't be expected to read," generally.
Can't expect them to read, or be on time, or have a work ethic.
This is what the soft bigotry of low expecttions looks like.
The damage this line of thought is doing to low-income students of color in American education cannot be overstated. Utter nonsense worthy of nothing but rejection and scorn. https://t.co/XjQMEV8qMF
— Robert Pondiscio (@rpondiscio) July 20, 2024
The damage is the point. Perpetuating the victim class for political gain is more important than helping children.
Somewhere @thomaschattwill is having an aneurism over this https://t.co/12bc9XUxWd
— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 20, 2024
So are we.
I regret to inform you that reading is now racist. https://t.co/drB53k2wVW
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 20, 2024
The Left has argued this for years, even going so far as to shame parents who read bedtime stories to their kids.
Not coincidentally, a big part of moron culture is denigrating the importance of reading. https://t.co/8EiriSxY0I
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 20, 2024
Denigrating the importance of education in general.
Shot: "The written word is racist"
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) July 20, 2024
Chaser: "Buy my book!" https://t.co/qICKLSqYNI
The irony is not lost on us.
The absolute nonsense these people have been fed. https://t.co/5EJAme4Pjn
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 20, 2024
And the sincerity with which they believe it.
“Being a voracious reader isn’t dependent on ethnicity, race, or income-level and suggesting that nonwhite or poor people aren’t voracious readers is itself offensive.” https://t.co/TlVB7yfhIB pic.twitter.com/TzQBY285nd
— Aaron Gwyn (@AmericanGwyn) July 20, 2024
It's incredibly racist, and classist.
And yet she thinks she's in the right here.
Spoiler alert: she's not.
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