• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s a derogatory term for white people, yes, who cannot experience racism as white people are not systemically oppressed.

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      1 year ago

      What would you call discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity, in a word?

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        White people can’t experience racism. White people are the beneficiaries of racism.
        Telling a beneficiary of global white supremacy his podcast sucks is not racism.

        Not taking a stance on if his podcast sucks as I have never heard of him. Discaring for the dude’s takes and insulting him for it still isn’t racism. He is white.

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          I’m not sure which comment you’re responding to as it does not appear to be an answer to the question posed, which was: What would you call discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity, in a word?

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              I suspect the answer is a bit more simple - they’ve a comment history of concern trolling rife with, shall we say alternate facts - I suspect they’re just trying to bait out uncivil replies for a report and ban.

              I suppose it’s possible they’re actually so deep into that koolaid as to be approaching flat earth levels of theories but I try to not assume people are that far gone.

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      Ah yes the old “racism can only be systemic” fallacy. That’s systemic racism, this is an example of interpersonal racism which doesn’t have to be systemic to be racism. I know you probably don’t care about how it can affect white people, but ignoring the existence of interpersonal racism or acting like it can only go one way hurts marginalized groups too, so don’t be doing that k.

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          1 year ago

          Life is a journey, time is a river, the door is a jar. Words can have more than one meaning.

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            1 year ago

            But “racism” can’t mean, “a thing experienced by white people as a result of being white”.

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              I really want to ask you a couple of things:

              1. What is your definition of racism?
              2. You seem to exclude prejudice from it; why?
              3. What informed your definition? (if you have some reading materials to recommend, do send them my way!)
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              Yes it can, because that’s a form of interpersonal racism, which is prejudice towards someone because of their perceived race/skin colour. It’s not systemic racism when it happens to white people, sure, but it’s still racism. Systemic racism isn’t the only kind of racism.

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                  Yes it is. It doesn’t matter how many times you try to claim otherwise, it’s an objective fact that anti-white racism is a thing. White people can absolutely experience inter-personal racism. Pretending they can’t isn’t helping anyone, least of all minority groups. It’s just denying reality for the sake of either an agenda, or your own personal feelings on the matter. How white people experience racism is different from how minorities experience racism, I won’t deny that, but claiming that they don’t experience it at all is just flat out lying. You don’t need to stoop to that level.