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The long campaign by the New York Times to make "whiteness" a pejorative is yielding fruit across the besotted plain. From Takimag:
You just know that someone who calls herself Tatyana Fazlalizadeh but still insists on living in the USA is going to be a huge pain in the ass. Well, this black woman with the passive-aggressively unpronounceable and self-segregating name is one of three female artists who’ve plastered a mural on a Tucson building that shows angry-looking “black and brown” women sulking alongside the phrase MAKE WHITENESS THE OTHER. As Ms. Titicaca Falafelwaffle squirms to explain:
Funny, that’s not the message we’re getting from this mural. What we glean is “Racial hatred is wrong, unless it’s directed against white people.”
To answer Ms Falafelwaffle's question, what would it look like if herness were the norm?People look at us as though we are different, as though we are deviant. We are the ‘other,’ and whiteness is the norm. What would it be like if black and brown people weren’t looked at as this thing that is different from the norm?
Funny, that’s not the message we’re getting from this mural. What we glean is “Racial hatred is wrong, unless it’s directed against white people.”