Interestingly, I first heard "White people have no culture" in high school, from people in one of two groups: 1) White people claiming to have no culture as a reason for cultural appropriation and/or because they weren't seeing the difference between being in an unmarked ethnic group and being in no such group, and 2) POC hitting back against "your culture is terrible/primitive/etc". In more recent examples of the latter, I think "White people have no culture except violence" may be an attempt at an ironic repurposing of "Blacks have no culture but violence."
Which is not a justification. These are all unjustifiable statements -- everyone has a culture, that's intrinsic to humans.
And this feature of the ongoing discussion is part of why this letter reminded me of the one about the LW who was getting into exercise and their friends who were displeased. In both cases, looking at an activity a friend has gotten into and being concerned within one's head about a potential incidence of a bad pattern one has experienced before, that's one thing. Preemptively hitting back against that friend before one is attacked and despite not being attacked is definitely a very different thing, especially ethically and in terms of level of unkindness.
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Which is not a justification. These are all unjustifiable statements -- everyone has a culture, that's intrinsic to humans.
And this feature of the ongoing discussion is part of why this letter reminded me of the one about the LW who was getting into exercise and their friends who were displeased. In both cases, looking at an activity a friend has gotten into and being concerned within one's head about a potential incidence of a bad pattern one has experienced before, that's one thing. Preemptively hitting back against that friend before one is attacked and despite not being attacked is definitely a very different thing, especially ethically and in terms of level of unkindness.