Its okay to be white signs and stickers appear on campuses and streets across the country

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Source: Washington Post

Posters proclaiming “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” have been appearing on college campuses and on city streets across the country this week, prompted by an anonymous chat-room comment that suggested the message would feed social unrest and sway white Americans to far-right ideologies.

Since Tuesday, the posters have been spotted in Rocky River, Ohio; at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.; at Tulane University in New Orleans; at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md.; around college-campus rich Cambridge, Mass., including the Harvard Yard and at the University of Alberta in Canada. In most cases, schools and cities have pulled the posters down, but the message has continued to spread in images and hashtags across Twitter and other social media platforms, even prompting a related Know Your Meme entry detailing its Internet origins and cultural backstory.

The signs began as a suggestion on the online chat space 4chan last month, a kind of Internet prank laced with ennui and cynicism about race and white identity in modern-day America.



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[klook]

1. Its not okay to be a white supremacist

is my response. I suggest editing these deplorables’ signs to say that.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. I like your response.

If I ever see one, I'm doing it!

[Duppers]

7. Excellent

[Aristus]

14. You could write underneath it:

"But it's not okay to be a dick!"

[LeftishBrit]

2. Whoever said that it wasn't OK to be white? It sounds like these people are looking for excuses to

be racist.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

6. From the article . . .

". . . prompted by an anonymous chat-room comment that suggested the message would feed social unrest and sway white Americans to far-right ideologies."

By the reactions to this by some, it would appear that the intended goal is on the way to being achieved.

Some people refuse to not be trolled.

[BlueIdaho]

41. Reminds me of the War on Christmas

Another totally made up piece of bullshit.

[YOHABLO]

3. Well we are very susceptible to skin cancer .. ugh. So not too alright.

[Mister Ed]

4. A micro-droplet in the vast ocean of white-affirming messages.

I'm sixty years old. All my life, the society I live in has been inundating me with the message that it's much, much more than okay that I'm white.

All day, every day, in every way. Both implicit and explicit; overt and subliminal. The message that I'm better than other sorts of people are, through no accomplishment of my own.

What sort of pathetic, sniveling little shit could possibly live the life I've lived and still feel sorry for himself just because, on a college campus here or there, someone might be promoting a message that it's also okay not be white?

It's unfathomable.

[ck4829]

8. I'm sure the All Lives Matter movement is making "It's OK to be any race" at this very moment

[IronLionZion]

9. It's OK to be racist and feel superior to others and discriminate

Is what they're really saying. No one is trying to deport whites back to Europe (although many liberals would love to go). No one is claiming whites are not American or don't belong in America. That happens to brown people.

This is blatantly a way to divide people and try to recruit more into hate groups.

The signs began as a suggestion on the online chat space 4chan last month, a kind of Internet prank laced with ennui and cynicism about race and white identity in modern-day America.

A series of messages said people should print signs reading “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE,” post them on college campuses and elsewhere, and then stand back and watch the fun begin. News reports would draw attention to the posters, the writer behind the idea predicted. Then white Americans derisively referred to as “normies” in the white nationalist ecosphere will discover that American journalists and “lefties” hate white people. In the process, normies will stop regarding news outlets as credible. That would deal a damaging blow in the culture war, the post said, inevitably converting more “normies” to the white nationalist, alt-right side. It could be that easy to seed social disruption, the post implied.

The episode is indicative of the efforts white-nationalist groups have made to recruit in and around the nation’s college campuses and other mainstream settings with claims of growing white maltreatment and expanding anti-white discrimination. The white victim construct is one that experts say, not so long ago, only had traction in avowed white supremacists, segregationists and neo-Nazi circles. But today, it animates open and anonymous public discussions of race and shapes the nation’s politics.

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[sagesnow]

10. Poor Little Snowflakes.

Waah.

[beachbum bob]

11. years of propaganda is paying off where being a racists is acceptable. So sad to watch

how evil has been normalized across this country and somehow white people are the "victims".....good lord

[barbtries]

12. so i'm designing my own bumper sticker

to distribute: It's NOT okay to be Racist
Black Lives Matter

these days i find myself wishing i wasn't white half the time. the history i never learned as a child. that there could even be a controversy about whether we should revere the traitors that tore the country in 2 to uphold slavery. that 600 people are shot and 59 of them murdered in one act and it's a blip on the news because the shooter is a white man born here (and guns guns guns), while a muslim in an orders by magnitude smaller attack commits a terrorist act and the president starts talking about getting rid of every muslim anywhere.
ran across a tweet the other day in which a woman was bemoaning the fact that she was late to the NYPD press conference because she couldn't find a cab or an Uber not driven by a Muslim. Really?!

so, anyone interested in my bumper stickers? or alternatively, i am going to get a BLM sticker ASAP, or several to share.

this just all makes me sick. #TrumpIsAWhiteSupremacist - even worse, he's president.

[El Mimbreno]

15. I have my own "All Lives Matter" Sticker...

With the letters in black, white, red, yellow, and brown. Although I'll have to admit I've never seen an actual red Indian or yellow Asian.

[7962]

16. Well, very few races are actually totally white, black, or any other color.

I would say that blacks & whites are problem the 2 that have the most varied members from one end of the color spectrum to the other. Like a white who is a redhead is often VERY white. A white from Italy much less.
But your sticker, IMO, is the only one that really matters. And should be the way everyone thinks.

[barbtries]

24. my goal is to promote

Black Lives Matter

All Lives Matter to me is a dilution of why Black Lives Matter is a thing.

[Iggo]

26. Every time I hear "All lives matter", I ask them "Inculding black lives?"

Every time.

Never let them get away with it.

[barbtries]

30. that's what i'm saying.

in our society blacks lives are clearly given short shrift. that's what needs to change.

[El Mimbreno]

33. We're all in this together

And we all matter. All colors, all genders, all beliefs. All of us. And unlike many of the ALM hypocrites, I mean it.

[barbtries]

35. i believe you mean it.

but it's not white lives that are being executed by police all over the country. or white lives whose murderers are let go scott free such as zimmerman. those are black lives, and the courts say black lives don't matter, so to me it's important to say that they do. turning "Black Lives Matter" into "All Lives Matter" dilutes the message. Saying "Black Lives Matter" is not to deny that all lives matter - it's to assert that indeed, black lives do matter, in a world that says otherwise.

[Iris]

42. I hear you. n/t

[HopeAgain]

17. Damn! I never realized it wasn't okay!

And to think I've been blithely walking around in this pale flesh for 56 years, oblivious to the fact it was not okay.

[DownriverDem]

18. Dumb A**munches

I'm white and totally disgusted with white haters like this.

[Paladin]

19. This is all trump's fault. He brought white supremacy out of the shadows. (nt)

[keroro gunsou]

37. Ironic

Considering that he is the best argument against white supremacy...

[MrScorpio]

20. They're weaponizing white fragility now

How cute.

[melman]

31. 'white fragility'

How cute.

[MrScorpio]

34. Yep, it's cute until it's weaponized nt

[Tikki]

21. I believe the actual sign says.."It's OK to be white and stupid"...

Tikki

[xor]

22. They are looking to get response in which people deface and destroy the stickers

That way they can be "seeee they think it's not okay to be white"

Someone above said "but it's not okay to be a white supremacist" That would be a great sticker to have made. Then stick that right below these stickers whenever they pop up.

*I see the content of their post actually suggested doing just that. I'm an ass. Sorry, klook.

[PatrickforO]

23. That seems kind of racist.

I mean, in a very real sense, it is OK to be you, whoever you are, just because you are. As a human being, you automatically deserve that respect for right of place; that certainty that you have a right to be here.

Lots of people don't think that about themselves, you know?

But a sticker saying it's OK to be white?

That's just wrong.



I suppose the good thing that may come from the whole rotten treasonous racist Trump bunch is a massive new civil rights movement, something that will move us in the right direction.

[CakeGrrl]

38. It IS racist, deliberately so. The bullies trying to play the victim.

It plays into the underlying fear theme of white nationalism: 'We're being outnumbered, they'll make us EXTINCT if we don't stand up for ourselves! White genocide!'

This in a society where the white power balance is still very skewed in that direction, and all because non-white groups are fighting for the ACTUAL rights to co-exist on an equal level.

White supremacists are combatting the fight for others to achieve equality by twisting that into an attack on them. All it truly is is a threat to their "supreme" status.

[Iggo]

25. It's never not been okay to be white.

What's the fucking point?

[TheDebbieDee]

27. I smell Russian troll involvement in the formation of these groups!

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[Sunlei]

44. may be time for that named 'messageboard' to have a major house cleaning.

except where would our 'homeland security' do their troll hunting?

[Bradical79]

28. Well, that's a relief.

[Lanius]

29. White supremacists and nationalists really are delicate little snowflakes

More things trigger these guys than stuff that don't.

[Nitram]

32. The white supremacy movement has their heads so far up their asses they have no idea what is

going on in the real world. "It's ok to be white?" WTF? And its ok to walk down the street, dudes.

[Skittles]

36. should say white snowflakes

[coolsandy]

39. IT'S OK TO BE.

[riversedge]

40. This white supremacict movement is spreading like a cancer. damn.

[Sunlei]

43. add the word "Trash?". don't forget the 'question mark'.