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>I think anyone being racist should be heavily reprimanded. The problem with this is that many who share this idea don't have a good idea of what 'racism' actu
by hiram112 10y ago
>I think anyone being racist should be heavily reprimanded.
The problem with this is that many who share this idea don't have a good idea of what 'racism' actually is.
Note: it is NOT racist to vote for policies that advantage yourself over someone from another group, perhaps of a different race, whom you've never met, and to whom you owe nothing.
- chillacy 10y ago> Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices Literally in the first paragraph of wikipedia's article Or even Marriam-Webster: > : racial prejudice or discrimination (discrimination being the part where you advantage yourself over others). Just think: if you were a minority in some aspect, how would you like to be treated? As for the practice of always voting for your in-group, this is something our founding fathers (assuming you're american) have known was a limitation of democracies, and leads to bad times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority