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Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible.
by Mountain_Skies 3y ago
Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible. This has been part of their belief system for decades, probably heard on a widescale for the first time during an episode of season one of 'The Real World' in 1992 but favored in academia for much longer than that.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoIt's because they have a very different definition of racism. Basically, according to this belief, if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination because of your genetic makeup.
- jansan 3y agoThat sounds like a very racist defintion of racism to me.
- jl6 3y agoRedefining words is what a lot of the last ~10 years of polarization boils down to.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoIronically, this is the exact same reasoning Neo-Nazis use for their hatred of the Jewish population. Weird how these parallels between extremist ideologies keep arising.
- hotdogscout 3y agoIt's almost like the "socialism" part of "national socialism" was not in fact irrelevant. See: Ba'aathism.
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- eadmund 3y ago> if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination That is not a crazy idea, but it does raise the question: who is the ethnic group currently in power? Against which group will slurs and discrimination result in punishment, and against which group will they be ignored — or even praised?