Davis Aurini, the bald half of the Sarkeesian Effect brain trust, has famously declared himself “a huge white nationalist on paper.”
The candid photo above, which I definitely did not assemble using photoshop ten minutes ago, reveals that this is not entirely true. He is, in fact, a tiny white nationalist on paper.
NOTE: When I say that I “definitely did not assemble [this photo] using photoshop ten minutes ago,” this should be taken to mean that, yes, I did in fact assemble this photo using photoshop ten minutes ago. I spent a few minutes of this lovely spring day crudely photoshopping a swastika armband onto a puppy. This is the sort of sacrifice I make for this blog.
And where do mixed-race people go? The US, presumably, but that’s a pretty massive forced-deportation campaign.
@Buttercup
His solution would be most likely to send everyone “Back where they came from” or where ever he thinks they’re from,Anyone of Japanese decent would be force to move to Japan ,Blacks back to Africa . He would not however required White people to move back to Europe and north america return to the Natives because that would be silly.
Yeah, I think the first thing that would have to happen in his scenario is removing all the non-Native American people from the Americas, but he doesn’t want that, because surprise, turns out he’s a white supremacist.
Shock!
He would really hate the “Shadowrun” sci-fi/fantasy roleplaying game. The Natives were able to retake much of North America after magic returns to the world.
http://i.imgur.com/pHSYwSO.png
Re racism in skyrim:
I remember digging into the console SPECIFICALLY so I could murder that racist piece of shit who wanders around Windhelm and is inexplicably marked as an essential NPC.
Can I stay in the US because I have some Native American ancestry? Do I go to Norway, England, Germany, France, Sweden, Ireland or Scotland because I have ancestry from those places? Do I just go anywhere in Europe because I’m white? Or do we all squeeze into Sub-Saharan Africa because that’s where modern humans originated? It’s all very confusing.
I’m quite happy to pop over to Ireland to resettle in a more ancestrally appropriate environment, but I fear that it could get quite full.
@Fabe
Someone earlier mentioned people trying to use D&D as a model for race relations, and I just thought ‘why the fuck aren’t they using Shadowrun, which literally bases its fantasy racial politics on the modern day?’. Also for me and my student friends playing Shadowrun tends to be hilarious as UCAS is the name of the organisation us Brits apply to university through, but it keeps hiring us to kill people for some reason.
I wouldn’t mind figuring out exactly where my ancestry lies, but I don’t want it to define who I am.
It doesn’t sit well with me when someone (particularly a white someone) goes “Oh, I’m [fraction] [ethnicity], and [fraction] [ethnicity], and [fraction] [ethnicity]!”.
Mostly because I just go “I’m white.” and leave it at that, but also because it feels like it’s a cop out for some white folks to try and weasel their way out of accusations of racism. (“It’s not appropriation for me to wear a war bonnet! I’m [fraction] Native American!” But this person cannot name what tribe or region their “Native” ancestry is from.)
I can sorta understand going “I’m half [ethnicity] and half [ethnicity].” or some variation of larger fractions/percents, because that’s simple, and I can understand some PoC doing it as well, but as a white person, I try to leave that out of the conversation.
Well, England and Sweden and Italy and Ukraine for example, all have different cultures. It’s nice to know where you come from and who your ancestors were. I don’t see how it’s a problem to be interested in your background if you’re a white person. If I hide from the Nordic part of my background just because white supremacists have a festival called Nordic fest, don’t they win?
I mean, if you don’t find genealogy interesting personally, that’s cool, but I’m kind of taking offense at the implication that I’m talking like a racist simply because I am interested in mine.
Yeah, my heritage matters to me, too, and I’m white. It’s not white heritage, though, it’s Norwegian-German heritage. My family was made up of poverty-stricken farmers in Norway; I’d prefer not to forget that part of my heritage.
One of the awful things slavery did was strip black people’s heritage from them. I’d be pretty hesitant to start doing that to everybody.
Absolutely, I can say that I’ve gotten in trouble in Skyrim on more than one occasion for the same reason. 🙂
Absolutely, I didn’t particularly like any of the Stormcloaks little less Ulfric because of their rampant racism. I got along with the Dark Elves and the Khajiit especially, good souls. Much more nice to hang out with outside the city than going inside. Yes, side quests along those lines would have been really nice.
True that. Internet high fives!
Sorry, I just got side tracked from the OP. What was it again? Oh yeah, nevermind. o_O
weirwoodtreehugger | March 15, 2015 at 4:50 pm
Sorry, that post earlier came out weird on my end.
I didn’t mean to imply that white people who are interested in their heritage are inherently racist, I meant that some white people use their heritage as a way to say they’re not racist when they’re called out for saying/doing something racist.
I personally feel weird about it because of that association, even as a white person myself. I have an interest in my genealogy, but I don’t want to make the mistake of going “What I’m doing is okay because I’m a tiny fraction of this race”, if that makes more sense.
Jarnsaxa | March 15, 2015 at 5:26 pm
I didn’t mean to sound like I wanted to “strip heritage” from anyone. I only meant to say that some people use their heritage as a way to try to get away with racist comments/actions instead of showing it the respect it deserves, and I have a really bad association with some white people who are very well aware of their heritage and the same white people being very racist.
Naturally, not every single white person who is aware of where they come from is a racist, I was simply trying to point out that I’ve seen it happen quite a few times.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that.
So at what exact percentage of Norwegian blood do I lose the ability to wear a bunad? Or is it based on residency?
Obviously that’s not a serious question, but really, I do not think it’s appropriate to police people’s identification with their heritage. That’s not the answer here.
It’s also because of racism that I don’t know what tribe my Native American ancestors were. We only know about it because we got a DNA test. Which explained why my mom couldn’t find any trace of her great grandmother before she married her great grandfather. Nobody in the family ever talked about it. So there’s a whole piece of our heritage kept from us. Not knowing what tribe your ancestry is is not necessarily a sign of racism.
Personally, I’m glad science is bringing to light what a lot of white families swept under the rug. That a lot of us have backgrounds that aren’t 100% European. Maybe it will start to help people realize that the notion of racial purity is complete nonsense. Neither immigration or interracial relationships are new things. They’ve always existed.
@Jarnsaxa: I don’t think it’s a matter of how much you’re of a certain race, so much as it’s how much you understand it, as well as how you go about identifying with your heritage. If someone who’s from that culture says “Hey, that’s not cool”, perhaps it’s worth taking that opinion into account. There’s more than likely a very good reason for them to say that.
I think there’s a massive difference between doing something with respect and with an understanding of what that thing represents, and doing something very disrespectfully and having people of that culture call you out on your disrespect, and trying to deflect it with “well, I’m part of your culture too, so why can’t I do it?!”.
There’s a way to do things properly. I’m part Native American, but I wouldn’t put on a war bonnet as a costume and parade around in it and get snippy if called out on it because I understand that’s not for me (because there’s more of other heritages in there), and because I understand what that represents.
There’s also the fact that sometimes that heritage comes from dark places. Some people with Native American ancestry came to be because their Native ancestor might have been raped or coerced into marriage with a white individual.
There’s lots of factors to take into account when talking about heritage from my own experience.
Honestly, I just don’t want to step on anyone’s toes here, but I think we can agree that someone taking on someone’s sacred or otherwise important traditions without any context and flaunting it like an accessory and claiming that it’s “honoring” them can be a bit hurtful for some people of that particular group, regardless of if you have ancestors from there or not.
Taking the time to learn about your heritage and participate in a respectful way is totally fine, and I’m not trying to say that it isn’t.
Simply deciding to wear it like a fashion accessory or participate in it with no real knowledge of the cultural context or importance is not, regardless of if you’re a decedent of that culture.
It’s just that you’re making the leap from someone talking about their heritage to someone using that heritage to try and get away with racism. As someone who identifies as white and has all the white privileges, I would never wear a war bonnet I didn’t earn. I loathed those racist sports team names and mascots even when I still thought I was all European.
I’ve seen white people pull the “I’m 1/16th Cherokee, so it’s not racist!” crap a lot too. But I don’t see how pretending I don’t have any Native American ancestry will help eradicate that racism.
You have to admire anyone who can sit through a Davis Aurini video, I can’t stand even 5 minutes of his racist, sexist crap.
weirwoodtreehugger | March 15, 2015 at 7:29 pm
I’m not trying to say that we need to pretend that we don’t have Native American heritage, and I apologize if it came off that way, that’s my bad.
What I was getting at is people using that heritage to try to deflect accusations of racism are racist and that’s not okay. It’s okay to say “I’m 1/16th Cherokee”, but it’s not okay to say that because someone said you’re doing something racist as an excuse or a defense to try and justify it.
I’m not saying it’s not okay for people to be proud of their heritage, I’m saying it’s not okay for them to use it to hand-wave their ignorance and racism aside when other people call them out on it.
Earlier, I said I personally am wary of white people who do try to bring up their heritage, because more often than not in my experience, these same people do try to use it as a way to deflect accusations of racism. Again, not every one who can say they’re a certain part one race and a certain part another and so on do, but it’s been that way in my experience, and that does make me a tad wary, and I don’t want to do that same thing by accident myself.
It’s nothing personal against anyone if they do know their heritage. I just see this whole “I’m such and such this ethnicity so it’s not racist!” quite often and I’m getting rather tired of it.
I’d like to leave the conversation here, though, before I put my foot in my mouth again.
Same here. Plus good witches and ruby slippers!
As for Tolkien, well…he was a professor of Old English in real life, and his Middle Earth is rooted in the cosmology of the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxons. So it’s going to have the very limited coloration of that period of history and its mythologies. If there are black people in it, they won’t be Africans, because those were unknown to the Anglo-Saxons. They’re going to be subterranean Dark Elves, trolls, etc. It’s an interesting world, but it’s not a very big one. And basing one’s racial views on it is just a steaming pile of NOPE.
Africans were unknown to Anglo-Saxons? Since when?
The storm clocks are basically storm front. Seriously, Ulfric storm cloak is basically a neo-nazi supremacists. All the nords are blonde, etc etc. Also was it just me or did anyone else find it weird that the /totally african race/’s bonus was….that they run fast? Like really Bethesda? Really?
I’ll admit to really liking Tolkien. Seriously, the Lord of the Rings is getting me through the day, because I’m sick. and it’s nice to have something that I know so well to just play on a screen with gorgeous music.
But, he’s still problematical. I mean, his only ‘main’ female characters are pretty few and far between, and I could write an essay. Also, could not everything in ‘High Fantasy’ be a rehash of Tolkien? Please? Not all Elves need to be Tolkien’s elves. For reals.
Also, Africans were not totally unknown to Anglo-Saxons. Forgot where I read it, but people got around far more than people think they got around…
This may have some stuff on africans and anglo-saxons, black people got around a good bit more than some people want to believe.
http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/96279462573/medievalpoc-people-have-been-asking-for-info-on
My grandpa did some genealogy when I was younger, going back to the early 1700s. It was a bit disheartening to see that the earliest ancestor he found had basically the same name as me, and lived pretty much nextdoor to my parents’ house. No wonder this family seems boring.