Excerpted & edited dialogue from "White Mice" by Darren O'Donnell

[littlegirltoast]

Robert: I'm home.
Douglas: Good, you're home. Well, come on in, you do pay half the rent after all.
Robert: I just learned something very interesting today.
Douglas: Oh boy.
Robert: I'm picturing the maple leaf.
Douglas: Which one? The red one on the flag, the blue one on the hockey jersey, or the green one that I just smoked -
Robert: The flag.

Comments

[littlegirltoast]

I want to be constructive in my response to this, but the combination of your tone - which is impatient, self-absorbed, and superior without demonstrating much in the way of thought; basically, super kneejerk defensive - and the antique chickenshit move of posting anonymously - indicating that on some level you're ashamed or afraid to be a practising apologist for white supremacy - makes it difficult for me to be as nice as I'd like.

Look, bud. "White" isn't an ethnic group. It's an infrastructure. If all you can think about is what you are personally responsible for, or not responsible for, when you're confronted with ideas like the ones in the above-excerpted drama, then you are not only criminally narcissistic, but on a personal level more responsible for the perpetuation of white supremacist thought and action than people who actually hate anyone who isn't white, which I presume is a category of person into which you do not fall, even though you have chosen to engage anonymously like a prank phone call by a lonely child and therefore I have nothing to draw upon in my estimation of that likelihood.

So you're welcome for that minor act of charity!

You feel that I'm "dumping all over all whites?" I have two responses to that. One is that I said nothing to attack, belittle or denigrate any white person, let alone all white people. The other is don't be such a fucking crybaby, you whining shit, you are going to be FINE. Even if I say something that is unfair to white people, you will be unscathed by it because YOU WILL STILL BE WHITE WHICH IS AMAZINGLY BENEFICIAL IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE. You are not about to get FIRED because I am critical of white supremacism, or roughed up or unjustly imprisoned, or taken less seriously in general.

The idea that "a white person" is analogous to "a rap artist" is so childish that I am worried that I am shouting at a little kid. Since I'm almost certainly not, it's pretty irresponsible of you to leave the possibility apparent that I might be. It seems clear that whoever you are, you are someone who hasn't ever spent two seconds in a row thinking critically about race, or any other kind of privilege/oppression system.

Don't waste my time.