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> Racism isn't real anymore, except for being a manufactured socio-political construct to create (D) voters How sheltered are you that you believe this? EDIT:

> Racism isn't real anymore, except for being a manufactured socio-political construct to create (D) voters How sheltered are you that you believe this? EDIT: Because calling you sheltered for your ignorance of racism isn't enough: You're claiming that people who think they're experiencing racism are simply primed to view negative interactions as racism, raising their sensitivity and lowering their specificity of racist experiences (i.e. that they can't tell the difference between assholes or reasonable setbacks in life and racism). You're using this perception of minorities' racist experiences to prime yourself to dismiss every racist experience. Do you see how this is problematic?

AYBABTME 4y ago
Please abstain from ad-hominem.
- ZoomerCretin 4y ago
  Interesting that OP can attack whole classes of people from an obviously privileged point of view, yet a mild but directed criticism of his ignorance is considered off-limits.
  - hypertele-Xii 4y ago
    Your comment simply adds nothing. "Do you even know how wrong your beliefs are?", without any further elaboration or commentary, is just pointless. Explain yourself and provide references and you'll accumulate upvotes instead.
    - ZoomerCretin 4y ago
      Edited my original comment, because apparently racists require nuanced dismissals of their wrong beliefs.
      - anon2020dot00 4y ago
        “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
  - AYBABTME 4y ago
    You edited your (now mild) comment after I wrote this.
noduerme 4y ago
Please see my other responses. I'm not dismissing the fact that racism exists, and I've personally been the target of it dozens of times. I have an issue with the notion that it defines and circumscribes our experience as individuals, or that it should be grounds for declaring our identity or the presumed lived experience of others, because that's not a path out of it and it's immensely destructive to the project of equality to create categories of victimhood based on skin color. One of the things I find most racist and offensive is other people telling me how I should feel or what I've experienced because of my race. We've gone back fifty years in the name of "equity" which is, substantively, white people's way of continuing to divide people into racial groups while acting holy about it.

AYBABTME 4y ago

Please abstain from ad-hominem.

ZoomerCretin 4y ago
Interesting that OP can attack whole classes of people from an obviously privileged point of view, yet a mild but directed criticism of his ignorance is considered off-limits.
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  Your comment simply adds nothing. "Do you even know how wrong your beliefs are?", without any further elaboration or commentary, is just pointless. Explain yourself and provide references and you'll accumulate upvotes instead.
  - ZoomerCretin 4y ago
    Edited my original comment, because apparently racists require nuanced dismissals of their wrong beliefs.
    - anon2020dot00 4y ago
      “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
- AYBABTME 4y ago
  You edited your (now mild) comment after I wrote this.

noduerme 4y ago

Please see my other responses. I'm not dismissing the fact that racism exists, and I've personally been the target of it dozens of times. I have an issue with the notion that it defines and circumscribes our experience as individuals, or that it should be grounds for declaring our identity or the presumed lived experience of others, because that's not a path out of it and it's immensely destructive to the project of equality to create categories of victimhood based on skin color. One of the things I find most racist and offensive is other people telling me how I should feel or what I've experienced because of my race. We've gone back fifty years in the name of "equity" which is, substantively, white people's way of continuing to divide people into racial groups while acting holy about it.