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Sure if you want to be racist. The shoe on the other foot, replace White man with Black man, Red man, etc and its clear that its racist.
by chrisco255 3y ago
Sure if you want to be racist. The shoe on the other foot, replace White man with Black man, Red man, etc and its clear that its racist.
- ivan_gammel 3y ago“White man” is not racist, it is a self-describing short term for Eurocentric supremacy and a quote from Kipling. As such it is not replaceable by Black/Red etc. Everyone can use it in such context as a metaphor, not as a racial reference. Edit: previously my message included some poor choice of words, which I will keep here for history and an example of accidental bias: “White men are absolutely allowed to use it as a slur towards other white men.”
- gambiting 3y ago>>White men are absolutely allowed to use it as a slur towards other white men. What kind of nonsense is that, the mental gymnastics to not call it what it simply is - racism - is just unbelivable.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoFeel free to suggest another term for a person of European origin and Eurocentric education who is lecturing indigenous people on how to live. Modern discourse isn’t about physical characteristics at all, even it does have roots in old racial theory. It’s certain views, it’s identity and culture. If someone behaves like in Kipling’s poem, he is the white man, not because of his race, but because of his actions.
- gambiting 3y agoI'm not debating the original point - I'm commenting on the clearly quoted section which says what white men are allowed to call other white men. Like, it really doesn't ring any bells of "something is not right here" when you read it?
- ivan_gammel 3y agoHaha, now I got you and apologize for inaccurate choice of words. Those bells didn’t ring, as I’m not American and not native speaker. Of course, everyone can use it.
- williamcotton 3y agoFive year olds and internet commenters care about things being even-handed and fair. The rest of the world either settles their matters or employs lawyers to do so for them. Most time settlement is a disappointing serving a crow, hence the glint of involving the courts. How much will that serving of crow cost? Why do I bring this up? This “replace X with Y” is the ultimate form of an algebraic rhetoric that demands a fully balanced system of mathematical perfection as if this were a reasonable way to go about things.
- LunaSea 3y agoIronically, this is the most Twitter-logic garbage explanation I've seen in this thread. Laws do impose parity so in fact it's not just some online rhetorical device.