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You’re missing the point. Latinos are a minority. White people aren’t. The article is great; and the fact that you’re pissed about it shows we still have progre
by hk__2 10y ago
You’re missing the point. Latinos are a minority. White people aren’t. The article is great; and the fact that you’re pissed about it shows we still have progress to do on these issues.
- tyingq 10y agoThe article is well written, but there's some odd stuff in there, like "Be that police officers or the descendents of those who hung us from trees with smiles on their faces, I want to limit any interaction with people who seek to harm me or my loved ones." That's not out of context either. There seems to be some implicit definition that all white people == people who seek to harm me.
- wyoh 10y agoDoesn't matter who's the majority and who's the minority, it's still a racist thought process.
- hk__2 10y agoNope. Racism is a domination system, so it _does_ matter who’s the majority.
- wyoh 10y agoThat distinction might be interesting if you're defining systemic racism but otherwise racism is having preconceived notions about a group, or attributing qualities and flaws to a group, based on race. That's exactly what the author of that post is doing, lumping all whites people in a single group, ignoring their multitude of opinions and experiences.
- hk__2 10y agoNo. The author of that post is denouncing systematic racism and as such the domination of white people over minorities. That’s why they must talk about white people as a whole.
- bluthru 10y agoWhite people are less than 10% of the world's population.
- hk__2 10y agoWhen we talk about racism and "white people" domination we usually refer to the occidental world; it doesn’t make sense in the whole World because there are too many different situation, whereas in Occident it’s pretty clear which populations are oppressed and which one isn’t. This is especially relevant on HN because readers here are mostly young white men.