me: classically Mandarin features look great in Red & Gold (China's natl colors)
them: that's racist
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I see your point but ime men say jack about the process of *-ism as it unfolds in front of them so
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if this is how you're helping it's not helpful
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there's something here about it's not what you say, it's what you intend that saying to mean ie does it symbolize and to what message
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it's all just a bit surreal when grand culture/race wars are reduced to... beverage preferences
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eh it's no different from most in-out group messaging. there was a period when Mountain Dew was in, water was weak & uninteresting
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Pepsi vs Coca-Cola has been pounding this in our heads for a century
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that was always a bit of a joke though, nobody *really* cared about coke v Pepsi.
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other examples include hipsters and PBR, black men and Hennessy etc... tribes but not the ones the brands intend to create
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heh I think you just succinctly showed my point about how prevalent beverage choice is for signaling tribalism
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