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Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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I love how the response to backlash against comments like this is almost always along the lines of 'sorry if you're offended' and 'the comments were taken out of context'.
These comments by Horman are very clear, they have plenty of context on their own, and they give me a pretty good picture of what kind of person the owner is. It's enough for me to make sure I don't set foot into their shops if I am ever in Melbourne.
The first tweet is almost satirical, so if it had stopped there I might have bought it being "taken out of context".
I'm curious to know what possible context would make those tweets okay.
The context where the person reading them is also a bigot?
I agree, it was incredibly clear that no one should support "Victoria's favourite bookshop" anymore. The one that really got me was the line about children's books needing to have more white people, nuclear families and less indigenous art on the covers. Sure, white kids don't have any media to look to for role models except for 95 fucking percent of media out there.
I really hope this business crashes and burns and we stop seeing cultivation of this kind of hate in this country.
I mean, it mentions "socialist agenda"
That's a buzzword for "I'm a dumbass"
Same goes for Anti-Woke.
Funny how those people tend to be the same who tell the 'sheep' to 'wake up'.
The context where there was a reasonable study without political bias made that proved there was an "anti-white" movement or intentional pandering for profit.
Hard to find one though it seems, else it would already be in the news.
There is no such study because there is no 'anti-white movement'. Diversity, equity and inclusivity are not zero-sum games, even if reactionaries like to pretend they are.
In the sense of individuals treating each other humanely day-to-day, sure. But when viewed through an employer lens, it's a collection of strategies whose purpose is to maintain poor conditions for the coalescence of labor solidarity. There's nothing non-zero-sum about that.
But they seem to be for you. You aren't willing to settle for anything less.
I am not sure you know what a zero-sum game is.
I proud to say I have no idea. But it sounds like it has something to do with a sum of things that equal zero.
Nobody likes those things which is why we invent more money when there aren't any left.
Let me give you a hint: not wanting to settle for less has exactly nothing to do with zero-sum games. Nothing whatsoever.
Are you sure? Why call it a zero sum then?
Since you proudly professed to have no idea what a zero-sum game is, and I have at least somewhat of an idea what a zero-sum game is - yes, I'm sure.
But because you only have somewhat of an idea is why you can't be sure. The rest of the idea you don't have might hold it instead.
So merely because you know some part of a subject, it doesn't mean you are correct about the entire thing.
I'm sorry, you basically have no clucking fue what you're talking about, and you're lecturing me?
Wow. It's like Reddit all over again.
Ffs just google it. And when you do tell me cos I've got no clue what it is.
A zero-sum game is a situation where one person's gains must be balanced out by another person's losses. This is usually the case in financial markets - since there is no endless money supply, if someone profits from a market movement, someone else makes a loss. There is no change in the overall amount of wealth in play, hence zero-sum - add up the profits and losses and you get zero.
Reactionaries treat things like diversity, equality, anti-racism and such as zero-sum games in the sense that if someone gets more rights, it must come at the cost of someone else. Which is complete and utter rubbish, but it's very useful to stir up resentments against these efforts. The narrative is that equality for women, people of colour, trans people etc means fewer rights for, respectively, men, white people, cis people.
Thanks mate.
But where's the fun in that? Not knowing leaves so much more room for imagination. And imagination can get wild, if you know what I mean...