Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context “white” is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See “black twitter”)

We agree that spending one’s time typing internet comments is less effective than voting.

Reddit Lemmy users love their internet slacktivism. These mfers will type out a 10,000 word comment on a five year old post before they will vote.