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What is racist about not wanting things to change? This is a totally separate issue from racism. Calling it "boys will be boys" or "girls will be girls" is a gr
by muninn_ 10y ago
What is racist about not wanting things to change? This is a totally separate issue from racism. Calling it "boys will be boys" or "girls will be girls" is a gross oversimplification.
- cromwellian 10y agoWhen white people didn't want black people to use their water fountains, it was an existing status quo they didn't want to see changed. You can justify anything by explaining away people'a xenophobia or bigotry by saying they didn't want change. We just went through the same argument with gay marriage with people alleging great harm and the need to discriminate against gay people, causing greater harm to them. I find great irony that people on HN who probably subscribe to ideas of dynamism and creative destruction and disruption as the life blood of innovation are defending cultural conservatism.
- alphabettsy 10y agoNot wanting things to change itself is not racist, the methods to prevent change will of course be racist.