I’m called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be - great

read the whole thread, her responses are even worse

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s a lot of stupidity to unpack in that first tweet.

    • “I’m called a Nazi” honestly first I’m hearing of it, so to me this is self identification
    • “White culture” I imagine grimes here is saying “anything that someone who would at first glance look like a modern white person has done in all of history”
    • “Brown king Cyrus the Great” I’m not racist because one of the historical figures i think about every day is brown!
    • “who invented the first empire” ah yeah he MacGuyver’d one together with pure brown ingenuity, sticktoitiveness, and a plastic straw
    • “Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu[‘s] … first novel ever” tangent: perhaps this is just my own brand of degeneracy on display here: grimes is referring to “The Tale of Genji”, which I mainly know about because some of the core relationships in the book revolve around adults grooming their wards into spouses (it was a different time), which has popped up nowadays in the discourse of some fiction coming out of Japan (see Usagi Drop). So I’m tempted to project onto grimes a veneration for grooming, which kinda tracks, but it’s a stretch.
    • “What if humans just loved each other?” You’re like 3 years late to former IDF member Gal Gadot’s imagine video

    Gotta love the way that TESCREALnts write and how they have a tendency to generate fractally stupid things like this. There’s so much more you could say. Basically, if I could say “that’s not how any of this works” to Grimes, I would.