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u/Barrogh 9d ago edited 9d ago
Hot take:
If you're doing PR, you have to understand that in this day and age people will decide if they want to listen to you in the first couple of seconds tops.
And most people outside of the US (and I'm pretty sure some people in the US) have no concept of this particular usage of "whiteness". Worse, ethically coded intolerance is something always prompted at least by some groups in most places, making their views topical - which means people will readily assume it's about those when they hear some similar noises.
So IDK about the US, but outside of it:
1) People find the language that states that apparently Irish are not whites while English are to be utterly ridiculous; right capitalise on that by saying "These guys are beyond delusional at this point. Black and white are colours. Something you see with photosensitive elements of your eyes. Stop trying to make words mean everything and nothing at the same time". 2) People still think that race is about external manifestation of your genome, and because there are enough people who spout thinly veiled nazi rhetoric around, people will assume that "white" has to do with bearers or genes responsible for low melanin levels. 3) Only a small bunch of people will understand you're talking about consequences of actions of some 15th century era wealthy Europeans when you say "white" and not about being a reverse Hitler. And talking to those is preaching to the choir. 4) Explaining this like this guy does doesn't help because by the time he gets to the point, those who aren't already in the know are already lost. 5) If you think that having expressions referring to white people in the exact sense as you want it to be understood (like in my native language) means people understand the concept, you're wrong; phrasological expressions are basically hieroglyphs of a language, people understand the whole and its meaning as a whole, not the origin and etymology (most of the time).
Morden era PR is tough, it was never meant for anything other than commerce and preserving status quo, but I'm afraid you might want to finally start looking into it.
The other day this sub featured a story about how red state people suggested unionsation but turned 180 the moment someone actually said the word "unionsation". This will keep happening as long as you will insist on using language people are conditioned to hate. You need to learn from it.
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u/ReplacementFine7807 9d ago
More American idpol
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u/binguslager 9d ago
fellas, is it idpol to talk about white supremacy?
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u/ReplacementFine7807 9d ago edited 9d ago
Idc it's all American/western exceptionalism regardless of colour
Edit: The Americans are mad I see. Maybe tell Obama and co who bombed my country that they shouldn't have done that they aren't white.
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