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This #TakeUsDown Movement Started By White Guys To Poke Fun At White Privilege Is Really Not Our Best Look

6/29/2015

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@Gavin_McInnes #TakeUsDown Dont worry its recycling so its totally earth friendly. Im hoping I come back as a tampon. pic.twitter.com/0XaIbJNnyk

— Shawn Conway (@shawn_conway) June 25, 2015

@Gavin_McInnes Currently loathing in a tub of my own guilt tears. So sorry. #TakeUsDown pic.twitter.com/FLf5OAUJ11

— Shaun Shook (@shaun_shook) June 25, 2015
Vocativ- A new Twitter campaign takes aim at the idea that white men are oppressive and privileged. Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the company in 2007, launched the campaign last week which uses the hashtag #TakeUsDown and features dozens of pictures of white men—and even babies and boys—lying face down on the ground. The images are captioned with statements that are jokingly self-shaming for white privilege and “transgressions.”

The hashtag made its way to white power forums, where users applauded the effort and added their own variations, including #AwayWithUs, #WeWhitesDeserveToDie, #BlacksKillUsNow, and #WeWillHangOurselvesForBlacks. Another user described the hashtag as “funny, fair and actually brilliant.”

McInnes has a history of making inflammatory statements. He blamed women for the gender pay gap, and said two years ago that feminism has made women “less happy.” After writing an article titled “Transphobia is Perfectly Natural” in Thought Catalog last year, he was placed on indefinite leave from his position as Chief Creative Officer at the Rooster advertising agency.



Okay, can we all agree to look past the fact that Gavin McInnes, and whoever he convinced to lay on the ground like an asshole along with him, is poking fun at something that absolutely exists? I am not saying it is each and every white man's fault that we are more often than not granted the benefit of the doubt. However, it is a phenomenon that is prevalent in society. Hey Gavin, maybe, just maybe, we could be better 'winners' for once. Especially since the advantages we get from being white males are based on no merit of our own whatsoever. 

I think the bigger takeaway here is how goddamn uncreative white dudes are. We can't dress cool. We can't dance cool. Now we can't even fucking hashtag advocate cool? I wasn't a huge fan of twitter campaigns as is, but taking it to these lengths makes it completely unbearable. That's the best we can come up with? Laying face first on the ground? Jesus Christ, we do deserve to be taken down. We aren't even trying to stay on top anymore. All this time watching groups that are actually marginalized come up with innovative ways to get their message out and we didn't learn a damn thing. Be careful what you wish for guys. Gay marriage is legal. Confederate flags are coming down by the dozen. Soon a bunch of racist white bigots while be the oppressed minority group. Can guarantee you that you won't want to take that one lying down. With the success of the feminism movement and the acceptance of transgenders, I would caution Gavin to tread lightly. He doesn't exactly have the best track record right now. You can't get taken down much lower than 0-2.
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Dominic-Van
6/29/2015 01:46:01 pm

What utter garbage. The entire point is that no matter what white people do "Anti-racists" will still complain. White people leave an area? White flight. White people move into an area? Gentrification. White people treat PoC like normal? Not giving them their safe space. etc etc

"Anti-Racists" are deluded don-quixote's charging at non-existant windmills. The point of the campaign is. YOU are the racist. And you can't see that because you are so deluded and hell bent on holding anything and everything against white people.

I mean look at your little blog? In the first sentence of the second paragraph you are already making fun of your own people. You are a pathetic brainwashed lunatic who is the problem not the solution.

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct
6/29/2015 04:27:27 pm

Yup, you nailed it. I'm just a big old fat racist. Hating each and every person that looks just like me. Totally brainwashed.

Meanwhile, the people that you think are right have confederate flags in their twitter avatars and are laying face first on the ground as part of a twitter protest. Some pretty sweet company you keep.

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Dominic-Van
6/29/2015 04:47:41 pm

Trying to be dramatic about it doesn't change what you yourself said in your little tirade.

"I think the bigger takeaway here is how goddamn uncreative white dudes are. We can't dress cool. We can't dance cool. Now we can't even fucking hashtag advocate cool? I wasn't a huge fan of twitter campaigns as is, but taking it to these lengths makes it completely unbearable. That's the best we can come up with? Laying face first on the ground? Jesus Christ, we do deserve to be taken down."

A big ball of self emasculating white guilt. Those are YOUR words. You are already tied to the insane concept of white privilege after all once people moved away from the concept of Original-Sin somebody had to reinvent it and direct it towards white people and only white people. No talk about the collective privilege/guilt of any other race despite them having as many issues as whites.

Some guy with his confederate flag triggers you a thousand times more than someone with a communist flag, despite the latter killing millions compared to the former.

You have no end goal, you just blindly attack anything vaguely white and you always will. Just because you are a white targeting whites doesn't mean you aren't full of hate and racism.

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct
6/29/2015 07:13:11 pm

Yup, all white guilt. All I do is attack the poor white man, despite being one myself. Not even a little sarcasm in that blog.

Put your tampon back in. You're bleeding stupidity all over the place.

Dominic-Van
6/30/2015 03:41:37 am

And rather than address anything you just make empty snarky comments. Congrats, you are following the modern leftist playbook splendidly. Why respond to anything when you can be a braindead ideologue?

Jordan Gray link
5/15/2016 10:11:54 pm

I've seen 'creative' things such as 'flag stomping'. I guess that's better?

What do you suggest that's more creative?

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