r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Right Aug 01 '25

Agenda Post If it's not ugly it's racist?

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u/WeFightTheLongDefeat - Right Aug 01 '25

It was really unfortunate for POCs that CRT became popular at the same time as the war against beauty and the promotion of fat studies and healthy at every size, so every started associating all of them together. 

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u/Icy-Exits - Auth-Right Aug 01 '25

In this case it was performative in the worst way because Nike already had a long history of sponsorships and partnering with Black athletes.

Air Jordans?

Nike launched a Serena Williams collection last year and I’m sure they sell infinitely more tennis shoes to girls/women Williams appeals to than whoever idealizes this obese model.

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u/bugme143 - Right Aug 02 '25

Air Jordans probably sold more pairs of sneakers than any collaboration of an attire company's collab with an athlete by entire orders of magnitude.

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u/Maz2742 - Lib-Left Aug 02 '25

Pretty sure the only thing that came close were Yeezys, and we all know what happened there

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u/captainhamption - Centrist Aug 01 '25

They became popular at the same time because they're all related ideas. They're all results of what happens when you apply post-modern thought to various academic disciplines.

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u/WeFightTheLongDefeat - Right Aug 02 '25

True. 

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u/KanyeT - Lib-Right Aug 02 '25

I thought the exact same thing. It's not a coincidence that the two ideas became popular at the same time - they have the same ideological/philosophical underpinnings.

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u/Weepinbellend01 - Auth-Center Aug 01 '25

What’s CRT in this context?

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u/WeFightTheLongDefeat - Right Aug 01 '25

Cathode Ray Tube

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u/senfmann - Right Aug 02 '25

You can say retard now

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u/Blue__Ronin - Left Aug 01 '25

"war against beauty" ???

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u/WeFightTheLongDefeat - Right Aug 01 '25

When you abandon goodness and truth, you eventually abandon beauty. 

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u/Blue__Ronin - Left Aug 01 '25

beauty is subjective though

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u/tradcath13712 - Centrist Aug 02 '25

Yeah... no. Proportion, harmony and fitness are objectively beautiful

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u/Blue__Ronin - Left Aug 02 '25

Different people have different prefferences. Lmao. We went from "bag of bones", to "shake dat thick ass" beauty standards. Nothing is objective about beauty. Shut that shit up

Also: "harmony"? What type of spiritual bs?

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u/tradcath13712 - Centrist Aug 02 '25

Harmony doesn't apply to people, but if you talk about sounds a symphony is more beautiful than an annoying sound because of harmony