You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
0 points

I hope you go to a middle eastern country and spout the bullshit. I’d literally laugh as your head fell off your body.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points

Do you… think Saudi Arabia executes investors? lol

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points
*

I think they… frown… on the idea that they are lesser than white people. Please please please go tell a rich Saudi the same thing you said about a white man showing up and being in charge of them I so want you to do that.

The underlying point to all this being you have a very myopic and biased understanding of the world. And i think people like you should not be allowed.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points
*

Do you think it’s a coincidence that almost all the world’s rich people are (white and) from the global north while the almost all the world’s poorest people are in the global south?

What queermunist is saying has got almost nothing to do with what people, including wealthy Saudis, think. It’s not an idealist claim. It’s material reality. You may be missing some of the subtlety in what’s being said.

I’ll turn it around: could a wealthy Saudi go to the US, France, Germany, Britain, etc, and start making demands like representatives of those countries could make of and in Saudi Arabia? If not, why not? If yes, then why do countries like SA keep the prices of exports below market prices, allowing western importers to charge the difference in tax to prop up their welfare systems? Bear in mind, too, that whiteness is a political category, a ‘floating signifier’ in the words of Stuart Hall. It’s got nothing to do with biology and little to do with skin colour.

You might want to look up the concept of racial capitalism to develop a more nuanced view of the claims being made. Or watch Hall’s lecture on the [floating] signifier, followed by reading something by Frantz Fanon.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-4 points

I mean, they’d probably kill me lol

That doesn’t make me wrong

permalink
report
parent
reply

World News

!worldnews@lemmy.ml

Create post

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

Community stats

  • 4.4K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 122K

    Comments