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>Read “whiteness” as describing culture, and it seems more true than racist. No, describing a group of people based on their race instead of a more accurate de
by finnthehuman 5y ago
>Read “whiteness” as describing culture, and it seems more true than racist.
No, describing a group of people based on their race instead of a more accurate descriptor for the category you're looking to talk about is just plain old racism. Being more specific might also be, but this is guaranteed to be.
And your statement just sounds like the contemporary-palatable version of grandpa explaining that when he talks about black people, of course he doesn't mean all black people or exclusively black people.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoFair enough. There are still people I wouldn't begrudge for using “whiteness” like that, but I probably shouldn't assume good faith straight off the bat. You're right that this kind of thing is important to stamp out. That being said, we don't really have a good word for “originally-European (but kinda American too now) take-everything attitudes”. How would you describe this succinctly?
- __turbobrew__ 5y ago“Western”?