National Museum of African American History Infographic on "Whiteness"

[Felis Leo]

Some of that stuff is extremely vague and generic, and can be attributed to literally any race. It's pretty dumb.

You are making a reasoned assessment, TheGoverness.

However, since reasoned assessments are a form of whiteness, you are engaging in white supremacy and attempted genocide against the makers of this poster. Please stop doing that. Or if, like me, you are not technically completely white, please stop aiding the white power structure in its campaign of genocide.

 

[eman623]

Here's an African American museum in Alabama you can go to. For you it'd probably be more of a comedy though.

Comedy? Thanks for the unprovoked personal attack A-hole.

 

[poweRob]

Comedy? Thanks for the unprovoked personal attack A-hole.

Seeing how your last input was mocking an African American museum and those that would visit it, it seemed rather on point.

Wait, there's a National Museum of African American History? Who knew!

Can anyone visit there, or is it just for blacks and self-loathing whites?

 

[eman623]

Seeing how your last input was mocking an African American museum and those that would visit it, it seemed rather on point.

It was not an attack on you personally. But you decided to make it personal on me. Very classy.

 

[ecofarm]

No link. No context Must be a jmotivator thread.

Who needs a link or context when there's obviously only one motive: attack black people.

 

[poweRob]

It was not an attack on you personally. But you decided to make it personal on me. Very classy.

I'd love to visit both museums. So it was a personal attack on me as being a self-loathing white. So you can go ahead and put away your victim card.

 

[eman623]

I'd love to visit both museums. So it was a personal attack on me as being a self-loathing white. So you can go ahead and put away your victim card.

BS. You put away your victim card. You were the one who made this nasty and personal, as if I found slavery funny, are now feigning innocence.

I'd like to visit both museums too. Even though the offensive "aspects and assumptions of whiteness" exhibit seems targeted to appeal to blacks and self-loathing whites.

 

[poweRob]

BS. You put away your victim card. You were the one who made this nasty and personal, as if I found slavery funny, are now feigning innocence.

I'd like to visit both museums too. Even though the offensive "aspects and assumptions of whiteness" exhibit seems targeted to appeal to blacks and self-loathing whites.

Then i suggest you go to the museum and tell them that. It was a **** thing to say but you need an excuse to play the victim now so... knock yerself out.

 

[COTO]

In the OP he made it look like that (originally barely legible graphic) was a statement of fact spewing out stereotypes. When put in context that was only provided later, the graphic really was listing false perceptions. Which is why I pushed him to provide the link that he conveniently left out of the OP. Had I straight up enganged him about this, knowing his posting history, he'd have just played the game of, "that is not what I meant in the OP". Then the discussion on the back end would have been him having me run around pulling things together while he sat back playing refuter boy. I'm not in for such games.

My response is that:

i) there's nothing in the infographic or the surrounding article that implies it's listing false perceptions

ii) the museum evidently regrets creating the infographic since they've subsequently removed it and added a disclaimer, "Since yesterday, certain content in the 'Talking About Race' portal has been the subject of questions that we have taken seriously. We have listened to public sentiment and have removed a chart that does not contribute to the productive discussion we had intended."

iii) only your criticism in reply #2 precedes @jmotivator's providing the link and the context for the graphic; ever since he provided the link, the ball's been in your court

Regardless, I'd like to know what about the infographic itself or the surrounding article has convinced you it "really was listing false perceptions". From where I'm sitting, the surrounding article not only backs up @jmotivator's perceptions of the article, it makes a clear case that "whiteness" (as the NMAAHC defines it) is oppressive and a form of bigotry.