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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Julian Sanchez

      1. The excellent @normative raises interesting idea about frat boy performing racism:https://twitter.com/normative/status/575680919845093376 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Julian Sanchez @normative
      I suspect, & kinda hope, at least some fratty performance of racism is more teens thrilling at violating taboos. http://www.salon.com/2015/03/11/frat_boy_from_racist_video_says_hes_sorry/ …
      2 replies 13 retweets 10 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Is some of this racism "teens thrilling at violating taboos"? Yes, no question. That's fairly wide-spread actually.

      3 replies 7 retweets 7 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. I remember guys in high school who had a fascination with Nazi paraphernalia. Trill of touching the taboo was there too.

      5 replies 5 retweets 6 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. But Aleksandar Hemon, the excellent Bosnian-American writers, has a story illustrating limits of this explanation.

      1 reply 5 retweets 9 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. In 1986, in Yugoslavia, Hemon went to a Nazi-themed party with some young adult friends.

      1 reply 5 retweets 5 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      6. This was communist Yugoslavia, so Hemon saw the party as being fellow kids thumbing their nose at the system.

      1 reply 5 retweets 5 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      7. The Nazi-themed party was investigated by Communist officials, who treated it like a legitimate threat to the state.

      1 reply 5 retweets 6 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
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      8. But here's the kicker: when Yugoslavia fell apart, the woman who organized the party emerged as a genuine fascist-nationalist.

      2 replies 6 retweets 11 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
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      9. So what Hemon thought was play-acting and nose-tweaking was, at least in some cases, a display of actual politics.

      2 replies 4 retweets 13 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
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      10. Peforming racism can become real racism. The mask can become the face.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015

      11. To put it another way, since racism is not in fact natural but a social artifact, all racism is a performance of racism.

      6:55 PM - 11 Mar 2015 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          12. Anyway, the Hemon story is from his superb essay collection, The Book of My Lives. Highly recommended.

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        2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 11 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet Tribalism is natural, if anything human is. What you eat/hate is a social artifact, not the fact of eating/hating.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
          Replying to @willwilkinson

          @willwilkinson Right, but I see tribalism as different from racism.

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        1. Very Vibeless Dave‏ @veryseriousdave 11 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet True enough, but maybe one thought too many. Seems to matter that donning the mask implicitly assumes black people to be objects.

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        1. Ryan Deschamps‏ @RyanDeschamps 11 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet Yes, but you seem to be implying that the reverse is also true. It seems there could be a counterfactual to your interpretation.

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        1. Julian Sanchez‏ @normative 11 Mar 2015
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @HeerJeet Well almost all social behavior is “performance” in that sense.

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        2. Julian Sanchez‏ @normative 11 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet Marriage is obviously a social artifact; we still know what I mean if I say “their marriage is just a performance."

          6 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 11 Mar 2015
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          @normative @HeerJeet But if you pretend to love someone, you might find that you really do!

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        2. Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling‏Verified account @RubenBolling 11 Mar 2015
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @HeerJeet puzzled why you would say racism is not "natural." Defining in-group and out-group is pretty clearly a human instinct.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Mar 2015
          Replying to @RubenBolling

          @RubenBolling Sure, but I think of that as tribalism, which is slightly different (although some over-lapping) from racism.

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