Her 15 minutes of 'fame':
Usually some dickhead being a racist isn't particularly remarkable, but something struck me about this one in a way that I haven't thought about before. My perception of most racists is that their opinion can be boiled down to "I'm better than you" (whatever 'you' happens to be in their case since race is a BS concept made up by racists); they want to feel like "their people" are innately worth more than whoever they're looking down on, and tend to act like the 'lesser races' are less than human in some way.
It's obvious from the video that this person is proud of their racist opinion and heritage, which is also pretty common in my experience of the world, but the way she words the second half of her opinion when talking about "your" (presumably Beyoncé's) ancestors IMO carries the more remarkable point in that she is proud that her ancestors helped subjugate and kill non-white people but she personalised it to indicate that she would be proud if her ancestors had specifically done those things to Beyoncé's ancestors. I'm not really sure that this is remarkable, but it gave me the impression that it would be rather like if a relative of a recent serial killer expressed how happy they are to the loved ones of the killer's victims that the killer inflicted such harm. Garden variety racist bullshit or what she said is fucked up no matter which way you slice it, but the hypothetical I put forward would surely invite some questions along the lines of "are you sure you didn't help them kill those people?".
At the end of the day it's probably hardly any different to everyday racist morons doing their thing, and since I'm white I obviously have never experienced being on the receiving end of those attitudes and how they're commonly directed; I'm self-employed so I have no colleagues and my non-white friends don't live near me these days, so the only racist bullshit I encounter first-hand is when customers start mouthing off about "them" (usually with lots of dog whistle wording and other attempts at subtlety), so it's not directed at someone in particular.
Usually some dickhead being a racist isn't particularly remarkable, but something struck me about this one in a way that I haven't thought about before. My perception of most racists is that their opinion can be boiled down to "I'm better than you" (whatever 'you' happens to be in their case since race is a BS concept made up by racists); they want to feel like "their people" are innately worth more than whoever they're looking down on, and tend to act like the 'lesser races' are less than human in some way.
It's obvious from the video that this person is proud of their racist opinion and heritage, which is also pretty common in my experience of the world, but the way she words the second half of her opinion when talking about "your" (presumably Beyoncé's) ancestors IMO carries the more remarkable point in that she is proud that her ancestors helped subjugate and kill non-white people but she personalised it to indicate that she would be proud if her ancestors had specifically done those things to Beyoncé's ancestors. I'm not really sure that this is remarkable, but it gave me the impression that it would be rather like if a relative of a recent serial killer expressed how happy they are to the loved ones of the killer's victims that the killer inflicted such harm. Garden variety racist bullshit or what she said is fucked up no matter which way you slice it, but the hypothetical I put forward would surely invite some questions along the lines of "are you sure you didn't help them kill those people?".
At the end of the day it's probably hardly any different to everyday racist morons doing their thing, and since I'm white I obviously have never experienced being on the receiving end of those attitudes and how they're commonly directed; I'm self-employed so I have no colleagues and my non-white friends don't live near me these days, so the only racist bullshit I encounter first-hand is when customers start mouthing off about "them" (usually with lots of dog whistle wording and other attempts at subtlety), so it's not directed at someone in particular.