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[feotakahari]

Inspired by a poll about “white guy energy”: it’s striking how, when people talk about “white” negatively, their go-to example of whiter than white, the whitest you can possibly be, is Mormon. I think the concept of whiteness is associated with not doing things and not being things. If someone restricts themself from doing ordinary things because it would be lowering themself, then the more things they consider low, and the more people they consider low for doing those things, the whiter other people see them as being. This is probably why people call “diet culture” white as well.