This is a question opened to all here.
In another thread I opened that the mods closed, Obsidian claimed that there's no such thing as OWD...without really substantiating his reasons why he believes so.
I did not come up with OWD out of the blue. It took years of observations, and studying how opinions were laid out by a certain segment, that usually hail from areas periphery our modern definition of Europe. Perhaps OWD needs another name, so far OWD has worked fine, and people who understand the concept, know what it means. I've had adversaries that I debated and even accussed of exhibiting signs of OWD, admit to me that they believe that this social phenomona indeed exists, and then went on to defending themselves and proving they dont exhibit it.
For those who have no idea what the off-white dilemma is, its a phenomona exhibited by people based on an ideal 'racial hierarchy'. Not everyone has the same ideal of course, but a person who suffers from OWD, knows that whatever racial hierarchial ideal he believes in, his racial group, identity, phenotype, whatever...does not fit it. So what does he or she do? He tries to tweak facts, figures, anything to put him closer to that racial ideal.
For example, using Obsidian as a case. Obsidian is a Turk. When I posted as "Lou Bricant" for a few days, the first thing I did was confront Obsidian on his obvious disdain and scapegoating of Kurds on everything 'negative' about Turks. Worse,
Obsidian really disliked anyone mentioning that Turkey is a "Middle Eastern country" (which in many ways it is). As much as I pointed out that a bit of Turkey is in Europe, the cultural and historic slant and weltenschaaung of Turkey has always been Oriental.
A typical tactic of someone with OWD would be dismissing a large segment of his own people, even going so far as using them as scapegoats for any characteristic he may deem negative. When talk of arranged marriages in Turkey is mentioned...Obsidian is quick to mention that its the Kurds who do that, not the Turks. When not doing that, it seems Obsidian has a need to convince everyone of his view on Turkey. "In Istanbul, we have modern, western style architecture...and we all drink capucinno at our cafes, we dont engage in arranged marriages"...that line of thinking.
The more endemic kind of OWD is denying the facts on the ground when it comes to how people physically look like. I dont want to go on detail here, but I have seen hundreds of this, where some South European, or even Middle Eastern person embellishes the extent of blonde hair, or blue eyes in his country, and for what reason? Because of a need to make his country seem lighter than it really is. Now Im not going to confine OWD only to European and periphery European nations. I've seen Latin Americans, Asians, even Somalis suffer from it. So its not some tool I use to insult people, as some have accused me of, nor is it something I use as a 'card' to win arguments. It exists, and is pretty endemic on race forums.
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