It’s not OK to drink milk or say snowflake, Inglourious Basterds — it’s white supremacy

Is it OK to say it’s OK to be white? SBS, October 23:

Australia’s new race discrimination commissioner has been peppered with questions about … “it’s OK to be white” … the white supremacist ­slogan, during Senate estimates …

Or is it a sackable offence? Will Zwar, NT News, October 17:

(The founder of the publication IndigenousX) … (tweeted) “Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, voting in support of what is widely known to be a white supremacist ­slogan, ‘It’s OK to be white’ … needs to resign.”

Is it OK to be white (and Jewish)? Times of Israel, October 23:

An American Jewish journalist and paramedic has died after he was ­assaulted and left in a vegetative state … (by) 25-year-old Jamil Hubbard … (who) beat him and … ran him over … (in his car) … Hubbard … told authorities he had assaulted (Jerry) Wolkowitz because he was a white man.

Is it racist to say snowflake? Peter Swindon, The Herald, October 21:

A Jewish lawyer has been fined (£1750) and ordered to undergo “diversity training” (after he described a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions activist) as a “thin-skinned … wannabe social justice warrior” (and) a “snow­flake” … (She and others protested at Nissan Ayalon’s stall, which led him to leave Aberdeen. The lawyer, married to a Muslim) founded a group called Arabs and Jews for Peace. (The activist said the comments were) “particularly disturbing, having campaigned against racism, discrimination and bigotry all my life”.

Is it OK to call an Israeli a baby killer? BBC News, November 2, 2017:

Israeli businessman (Nissan Ayalon) … (is being hounded by Boycott, ­Divestment, Sanctions activists) … He previously had stalls in Belfast and Glasgow, but felt forced to close them down, and moved to Aberdeen where he said the treatment had continued … “We were accused of murdering, mass murdering, slaughter, criminals, we were called criminal enterprise. We were called baby killers. There is nowhere else for me to go. I love it here, where is my equal opportunity?” he asked.

Is it OK to torture critics? Oliver Holmes, The Guardian, October 23:

The Palestinian Authority … and its political rival Hamas in Gaza regularly detain and torture critics and dissenters, Human Rights Watch has said … (carrying) out “scores of arbitrary arrests for peaceful criticism of the authorities, particularly on social media, among independent journalists, on university campuses, and at demonstrations”.

Is it OK to be white and die for your country? Richard Spillett, Daily Mail, October 25:

The student union president at the University of Southampton referred to a mural depicting Allied First World War soldiers as a “mural of white men” and called for it to be taken down. (She) tweeted: “Mark my words — we’re taking down the mural of white men in the uni Senate room, even if I have to paint over it myself.” The Rothenstein Mural was painted in 1916 “as a memorial to members of the British universities serving in the Great War … It depicts an academic procession and the conferring of a degree on an unknown soldier”. She had earlier tweeted a picture of the wall (and written): “ONE OF THE WOMEN JUST SAID ‘it’s nearly ­armistice day so are we covering up this tapestry??’ AND HOLY S***. F*** YES. GRL PWR …’”

Is it OK to drink white milk? Leah McDonald, Daily Mail, October 23:

Animal Welfare Group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, claims) cows’ milk is a symbol of white supremacy (because) Christoph Waltz’s character in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds … drinks a glass of milk, saying “dairy milk has long been embraced as a symbol of white supremacy”.