Precious.
Y’heard of a book called White Fragility.
It’s number one on The New York Times bestseller list, ahead of So You Want To Talk About Race and The Color of Law.
Real important book ever since George Floyd got choked.
Talk-show hosts swoon over it.
White liberals clutch it in their tremulous hands as they take to knee and beg, “How can I do better?”
It’s racist as fuck, of course.
Superhuman whites keeping the weak black man under his jackboot and so on.
“Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people,” writes John McWhorter (and he ain’t white) in The Atlantic. “DiAngelo’s outlook rests upon a depiction of Black people as endlessly delicate poster children within this self-gratifying fantasy about how white America needs to think—or, better, stop thinking. Her answer to white fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people.”
Anyway, hold onto that thought.
Last month, Shane Dorian, a deer and big-wave hunter from Hawaii, posted a photo of him and Kelly Slater, plus son Jackie and pals, on their bicycles with the caption,
“Non-threatening biker gang.”
Can you see the racism?
Try again.
Give up?
It took a Dorian fan to reveal the devil in the detail, so to speak.
Non-threatening because there ain’t no blacks. Of course!
What’s better, y’think?
The lunge for racism at every turn or Dorian’s couldn’t-give-a-fuck comeback?
I’m for the latter, if that isn’t obvious.
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Shouldn’t shane be wearing a helmet? Such a risk taker that guy
If I was black, I’d track down the descendants of the people that profited off my ancestors enslavement, and then I’d take half of what they inherited: i imagine that’s part of what it feels like to be black.
deer hunter.. we can all sleep better knowing the deer slayers will keep us safe.
Everyone will have been canceled and thrown into cancel camps and the only one left will be E Lo since he was the first to declare the WSL as inclusive. Before then it had been suspected as white supremacist group that crowned Brazilian world champs only as a cover up.
the real crime is the constant selfies. we get it, cunts, YOU love* YOU
*please tell me you love me too!
More concerned that Shane Dorians kid looks like a surfing munchkin woman. I can’t be the only one. Everyone says so
“Everybody Wants Some” is my favorite song on that album.
Fun fact…John Cusack hated “Better Off Dead” and when he want to Cape Cod to film “One Crazy Summer” the word is that he and “Savage” Steve Holland barely spoke.
We should have known back then that Cusack is such a dick.
The Pandemic fear porn is dying out so now we’re back to the trope of having “only nine years to save the planet!”
It’s exhausting.
40 + years old millionaires on social media is the real crime against humanity.
i’m sure it is fun, when the 5 of them show at your local.
Maybe Shane Doz needs a colonic irrigation.
Do you reckon this mass divide between left and right is actually by design…by both sides. The sensible centre really are the common enemy…they keep both sides accountable, ask uncomfortable questions, value truth and call for balance…don’t donate finances?
It seems harder and harder to stay in the centre
Yes. It’s a dialectic.
I’m so confused hey. Like when a country does something, as if it has become self aware and mobile. Eastasia and Oceania up to crooked shit again. Where was I? Oh yeah…fuck Trestles.
Best article I’ve seen on beachgrit. Everyone needs to stand up to this rasicm at every step of the way. Otherwise we are all lost. My level of respect for this site has just jumped incredibly.
Hahahahar – don’t get ya hopes up for it to continue, mate !
Set your expectations low and you’ll be just fine.
If you are…
Real important book ever since George Floyd got choked.
To Death. On camera. Slowly.
With unfortunate audio to the murderer.
It’s also going to be terrible when that half-wit Keith Ellison loses in court because he over charged the cop.
But yes, Ellison will get a pass on his incompetence because he’s black and cities around the US will get torched by Angry White Cat Ladies while calling black police officers Uncle Toms.
Yeah, the culture isn’t “cancel”, it’s “I’m offended”
Baiting aside (this article has all the markings of a Chas, yet curiously it’s a Derek)…
The “biker gang” joke is old and unoriginal. If you’re resorting to that level of overused punchline you need to take a good hard look in the mirror and be honest about your inability to deliver humor. Here’s how it’s done, Shane:
you’re a dumb cunt
Well that sure escalated quickly
“take a good hard look in the mirror and be honest about your inability to deliver humor”
…it’s a cheesy father-son post from a pro surfer
I’d like to hear Sal’s take on this please
wise sage…
it’s selama
As in ‘See Lama’? I like alpacas
It’s very simple whitey, you are the devil with all your “implicit bias”. The Implicit Association Test btw is a shithouse 1st year psych experiment which I went well years ago debunking at uni. All I had to do was cite the IAT’s done with black subjects to compare and discuss the similar scores.
*edit* also discussed how this similarity in results could be related to test methods changing when given to non white test participants.
I re read and the top of my now very long comment. was a bit much. Have to be clear when talking about this stuff.