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Racism is cultural, not just phenotype. For example, you'll find plenty of English racism against the French, Germans, Welsh, Scots, and Irish, even though all
by vacri 10y ago
Racism is cultural, not just phenotype. For example, you'll find plenty of English racism against the French, Germans, Welsh, Scots, and Irish, even though all of those groups are white.
You're putting too much emphasis on the race part of the word, and not its meaning of exclusion using factors beyond an individual's control. You are the one being hyperbolic.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoCultural discrimination isn't the same as racial discrimination, and I think it's very dishonest of people to pretend they're the same problem. Also, culture is something you control: even by your definition, it's not racist. (Though, really, you want a term like 'discriminatory' when talking about all factors, because racism is about race.)
- vacri 10y agoWhat is the functional difference between "No Blacks" and "No Irish"? As chrismealy says, swap in 'bigoted' for 'racist' if you want to be pedantic; his point still stands. It's not "extremely inappropriate" at all - the OP still a polite form of excluding people wholesale on factors that they can't control. And no, culture is not something people can "just choose" when you're working at demographic scales. And 'white culture' does not exist. It's not a thing unto itself. Spanish vs Irish vs Russian vs Slovak are all significantly different. White greeks have more in common with the brown people of the eastern medditeranean than they do with the redheads in the celtic lands. You can't just say "MY culture" and take everything that Europeans and North Americans have done.