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A lot of everything has racist origins if you squint hard enough. You can make that argument for everything from chemistry (via alchemy and links to eugenics) t
by strken 1y ago
A lot of everything has racist origins if you squint hard enough. You can make that argument for everything from chemistry (via alchemy and links to eugenics) to car ownership (via white flight and avoiding racially mixed public transport).
For some reason, it's easier to see the limitations of that approach when it's applied to common everyday things that everyone does, and much harder when it's applied to conspiracy theories.
- krapp 1y agoYou don't have to squint as hard to find the racist origins in a lot of conspiracy theory, especially when it draws directly from Nazi propaganda, as you do to get to "car ownership is racist because racists use cars to avoid sitting next to black people on the bus."
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoWhat I see is more classist, which is evidently still ok with people. They don't want to sit next to the poors on the bus, and don't want them living in their neighborhood, and don't want to see them in the supermarket, etc.