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> racism Wut.

• diamondlovesyou 8y ago
  You are being downvoted because this is not Reddit.
• ahoy 8y ago
  Poor people, and especially poor non-whites, are much less likely to have a credit or debit card. I think it's important to understand "racist" as an effect, not as an opinion. The decision to not accept cash probably wasn't made with racist intentions, but it can very well have racist outcomes.
  • superkuh 8y ago
    I meant it literally. There are corporate persons and there are human persons. When you pay with a credit card a corporate person is paying. When you pay with cash a human person is paying.
  • Whatevers 8y ago
    That's not the issue s/he brought up though.
  • rand0mbits 8y ago
    >> I think it's important to understand "racist" as an effect, not as an opinion. I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. If as a white person you punch a black person because you don't like the car the person is driving, that's not racism, that's just some weird aggression. It's not based on the concept of race. But if you punch them because they're black, that's obviously racism. Same thing here. If you're taking an action that indirectly causes harm to mostly non-whites (more specifically to poor people, some of whom are white) without the intent of causing harm, that's not racist. It's only racist if you feel that the group that's being harmed is racially/ethnically inferior to your group and that that justifies your actions. That isn't to say that knowingly causing harm to people, even without any racism involved, is OK. It's not. But it's the intent that defines racism.
• dang 8y ago
  Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337833 and marked it off-topic.