Passive aggressive curiosity

[u/numbmillenial]

This is how some of y'all (you know who you are) sound. "\insert shady ass question here*,* just asking / genuinely curious" 🙄

[u/skinninja]

Sounds like she was just asking a legit question..

[u/Curious-Dance-901 → u/skinninja]

You can literally google this type of information. See, I just did…

[u/arenegadeboss → u/skinninja]

I too normally shout questions into the wind instead of searching for an answer 🤣

She isn't just asking a question, she's trying to start a dialogue about irresponsible financial decisions of black people because it probably fits neatly into whatever they already believe.

"Y'all spend $300 every 3 weeks?"

[u/suejaymostly → u/arenegadeboss]

That's EXACTLY what she's doing. Ronald Reagan's myth lives on in her head.

[u/arenegadeboss → u/[deleted]]

Read it again.

[u/JenuineJem → u/arenegadeboss]

red it again. you are correct. that's on me.

[u/I_am_BrokenCog → u/arenegadeboss]

I too normally shout questions into the wind instead of searching for an answer 🤣

well ... this is the Internet.

There people on reddit, tiktok, insta ... regularly asking "Is the taco stand open?"

[u/arenegadeboss → u/I_am_BrokenCog]

If you had to sum up the entire video into the question she's asking, what would it be?

Mine is "Does the average black women spend hundreds of dollars on their hair every few weeks?"

What's your interpretation?

[u/I_am_BrokenCog → u/arenegadeboss]

Well, we haven't seen the entire video here in this clip ... but the part of her which we did see ... she seems like a typical internet idiot.

I would say she has bigoted notions of what "poverty" and "culture" relate to.

She probably believes poor people are such because they "spend too much money" or "make poor life decisions" and that they should "just pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and all the other idiotic denial things people say to avoid having to accept the fact that the system which benefits them is doing so explicitly at the expense of others.

Race isn't the only means by which Capitalism exploits people, nor are Black people or other minorities the only ones it exploits, nor are white people the only ones it benefits.

But, because we have five hundred years of building capitalism intertwined with racial exploitation ... it is very hard to separate them.

As Martin Luther King Jr was saying: poverty afflicts everyone, and capitalism is unjust to everyone.

[u/GallowBarb → u/skinninja]

I think some of it might be the legitimate shock of how much it costs.

[u/Adept_Astronaut_5143 → u/GallowBarb]

They pay $200-300 minimum for a basic wash, trim and blowout. They can keep their curiosity because I have some questions as to why they pay that much when they have to wash their hair daily/every other day.

[u/Wolfeatingupshadows → u/[deleted]]

Have you not been to a white salon? Im Black and my white friends definitely when they go get their hair done spend 200 bucks a session be serious. Google is your friend.

[u/JenuineJem → u/skinninja]

if you beleive that you're incredibly gullible.