alt Hacker News> Does not besetting people with slurs count as "diversity" now?
It depends whom you ask! There are certainly some people both off- and on-line who seem to think that uniformly slurring all white, male, cis-sexual, whatever folks as "oppressors" - and even occasionally suggesting, apparently as a serious political proposal, that "Whiteness" (whatever that means) is something that should be forcibly done away with - is an effective way of advocating for diversity.
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I suspect this is a pretty fringe position. I read quite a bit of center to left coded media, and I haven't seen it.
I will say that I'm not on Facebook, Instagram, or tiktok though, so I might be missing a cultural moment.
I have seen people point out that the concept of "whiteness" has shifted over time, and doesn't really have an immutable meaning.
Going from "hey, maybe we shouldn't kick trans people in the teeth?" to some rant about "help help I'm oppressed because I'm white!" is quite the stretch. Why don't you just come out and say that We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children? God this site truly is infested with white nationalists up to its tits these days.
> "Whiteness" (whatever that means)
Maybe you could look it up instead of dismissing it out of hand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory
Feel free to disagree afterwards, but the words do have meaning. And not knowing them is not an argument against it.