Comment by TacticalCoder | Hacker News Reader

Comment by TacticalCoder | Hacker News Reader

Holy smoke the bullshit I see upvoted on that site frontpage mate! Fitness is "white supremacism"!?

A few lines from that "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" frontpage articles (that title, already):

> I cannot help but see that “Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest” content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals

Let people live ffs!

> it’s always white or racially ambiguous people,

"Racially ambiuous"? For a start it's an attempt at manipulating thought by manipulating speech. Then it's deeply racist: it's wanting to categorize people by race, to hate on them. In this case putting, for example, latino-whites (I'm not saying it, TFA is) or half-asian/half-white (like my nephew) as "white" to hate on whites. It has a name:

racism.

Anti-white racism, but racism (usually double-down by explaining that it's impossible to be racists towards whites for anti-white racism is impossible).

And at the gym and among my friends, I see a lot of these "yoga girls" are with... asian genes. Same online among the fitness "influencers" with many subscribers.

There are also a huge lot of incredibly muscular and fit... Blacks. What a surprise: blacks ain't white.

How can someone be filled with so much hate (including, potentially, hate for its own race) to write such hateful texts?

Despicable author, writing hateful words, to please people with really dark hearts.

More of a meta discussion of an aggregator, don’t you think? It would likely be more productive to go complain in the comments of that singular blog.

The specific topic of that blog post aside, any aggregation of 'indy' and 'small' content producers is going to lean kind of weird. Maybe left, maybe right, hopefully a combination of both, but it's going to have all sorts of crazy posts like that, all sorts of nutty niches.

That's at least interesting, in an old-school-internet kind of way. Hopefully it doesn't get captured by one clique or another.

> Hopefully it doesn't get captured by one clique or another.

Given that it's the most-voted post, it looks like it already happened.

This reads like a kneejerk reaction to the title, which I understand. I think it's deliberately written that way to draw you in, but I get how it could be upsetting.

Her point isn't that "fitness is white supremacy," and not even remotely close. Just that the social media and culture around wellness and fitness can give off white supremacist, fascist energy by presenting an extremely unobtainable and yet highly idealized state of being, where everyone is very thin and white and fits within the stereotypes of the gender assigned to them, which is not remotely how the world at large can be.

Actually, reading it again, I don't see the author calling out anyone in particular, just noting that the culture around a thing they otherwise enjoy makes them uncomfortable, and why.

That was to draw the reader in? I found that title so off-putting that I didn’t even bother to look at the site as a whole.

Your comment made me actually go click through to see who wrote it, as I was curious… a white girl from Germany. It seems very possible that her algorithm is feeding her mostly white European fitness influencers, because she herself is a white European girl. That isn’t inherently wrong and there is no supremacy at play.

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