1. The excellent @normative raises interesting idea about frat boy performing racism:https://twitter.com/normative/status/575680919845093376 …
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@HeerJeet "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt VonnegutThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@heerjeet I think you have cause backwards here. Rather, claim of irony provides superficial justification for tokening racism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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11. To put it another way, since racism is not in fact natural but a social artifact, all racism is a performance of racism.
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12. Anyway, the Hemon story is from his superb essay collection, The Book of My Lives. Highly recommended.
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@HeerJeet But also, the performers are watching the audience as much as vice versa. 100s of other times that SAE chant went unchallengedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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yep, it can be like basic training RT
@HeerJeet: 10. Peforming racism can become real racism. The mask can become the face.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet To me, shows how teens eager to break taboos of outgroup to impress ingroup. When we make all-white ingroups, this more likely.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet There is a professional Borat impersonator in Baltimore who is an honest-to-God neo-Nazi. -
@notjessewalker@Trillburne@HeerJeet sasha barren cohen's entire schtick is little more than modern day blackface anyway
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@HeerJeet "If man will strike, strike through the mask!"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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