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You make some great and insightful commentary on many issues here, but I wonder if your fealty to the US Democrat party is putting some ideological blinders on.

You make some great and insightful commentary on many issues here, but I wonder if your fealty to the US Democrat party is putting some ideological blinders on. Racism meaning "treating people different on the basis of race/skin colour" is a pretty normal understanding of the term, and certainly it's not jargon from "Twiter or a message board". The random person on the street would likely agree that "treating people differently on the basis of race" is racism, plain and simple. And as such, Rayiner's point about elected reps in the Democrat party, including but not limited to the President and high-ranking members of the Senate and House, making race the lens through which everything is discussed and planned for, is racism plain and simple. And it's frustrating for minorities to be disrespected and have their agency taken away by mainly caucasian liberals pretending to represent us. The sad part is that people like Biden and Warren know better, but they're just pandering with to a specific demographic that also views race as the primary driver of everything, but that in turn makes the middle ground also shrink, as people naturally look to mimic their leaders. This tiresome focus on race-for-everything is making society much more racist, not less, and yes, I would agree it's mainly the Democrat party and it's current policies and rhetoric that is worsening it.

pvg 4y ago
Both 'Democrat party' and a definition of racism that strips it of any notion of prejudice or animus (compare that to, say, one you might find in a dictionary) are very much politically-inflected jargon.
- rayiner 4y ago
  I don't know about other people, but being treated differently based on your race doesn't actually make me feel better just because the other person thinks they're helping.
  - pvg 4y ago
    Sure and I (a white Eastern European immigrant) might place a different weight on those thoughts and feelings in part because you are a brown South Asian immigrant, without it being racism. It's a shoddy redefinition better abandoned in poorly ventilated dorm rooms and talk radio studios. You touch on the problems with the whole 'who are the real racists' millstone yourself when you mention agency. If Democrats are the real racists, what sort of rubes are the majorities of Black Americans who vote for them? It just doesn't go anywhere but a circle of nothing or worse.

pvg 4y ago

Both 'Democrat party' and a definition of racism that strips it of any notion of prejudice or animus (compare that to, say, one you might find in a dictionary) are very much politically-inflected jargon.

rayiner 4y ago
I don't know about other people, but being treated differently based on your race doesn't actually make me feel better just because the other person thinks they're helping.
- pvg 4y ago
  Sure and I (a white Eastern European immigrant) might place a different weight on those thoughts and feelings in part because you are a brown South Asian immigrant, without it being racism. It's a shoddy redefinition better abandoned in poorly ventilated dorm rooms and talk radio studios. You touch on the problems with the whole 'who are the real racists' millstone yourself when you mention agency. If Democrats are the real racists, what sort of rubes are the majorities of Black Americans who vote for them? It just doesn't go anywhere but a circle of nothing or worse.