You make good points but there are a couple things I still disagree with.
Beyonce was definitely criticized for that performance, however, you are right to point out that the overwhelming majority of black voices called it justified in order to bring attention to the Black Lives Matters movement. That does seem hypocritical, so I stand corrected regarding "society as a whole".
Black Panther the comic was written in 1966 so I don't think you can really consider a movie by the same name based on that source material a revival.
The guy I was replying to was talking about "children" in the context of racial identity. Being proud of your own white identity is one thing, being proud of having white kids is an obvious dog whistle to "racial purity" and "heritage" proponents.
"It's OK to be white" was a brilliant campaign because it showed how the left invents their own offenses. It was the left that equated "It's OK to be white" to be synonymous with "White Power". That was the genius of it. Exposing the delusion.
But surely you can agree that if people had just gone around printing up signs that literally said "White Power" that would have been an entirely different thing.
You make good points but there are a couple things I still disagree with.
Beyonce was definitely criticized for that performance, however, you are right to point out that the overwhelming majority of black voices called it justified in order to bring attention to the Black Lives Matters movement. That does seem hypocritical, so I stand corrected regarding "society as a whole".
Black Panther the comic was written in 1966 so I don't think you can really consider a movie by the same name based on that source material a revival.
The guy I was replying to was talking about "children" in the context of racial identity. Being proud of your own white identity is one thing, being proud of having white kids is an obvious dog whistle to "racial purity" and "heritage" proponents.
"It's OK to be white" was a brilliant campaign because it showed how the left invents their own offenses. It was the left that equated "It's OK to be white" to be synonymous with "White Power". That was the genius of it. Exposing the delusion.
But surely you can agree that if people had just gone around printing up signs that literally said "White Power" that would have been an entirely different thing.