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Just because most people are wrong doesn't mean we should encourage the dilution of words.
by exe34 1y ago
Just because most people are wrong doesn't mean we should encourage the dilution of words.
- gruez 1y agoI might be sympathetic to this argument if the severity actually differed, eg. people calling mean tweets "violence" or something, but that's not what's happening there. I don't see any meaningfully difference between "I'm discriminating against you because you're Chinese" (culture/nationality) and "I'm discriminating you're Han Chinese" (ethnicity). I doubt the average racist actually knows the distinction between the two anyways, and I doubt people are going to be like "oh you're discriminating based on culture instead of ethnicity? I guess that's fine then!".
- exe34 1y ago> I don't see any meaningfully difference between "I'm discriminating against you because you're Chinese" (culture/nationality) and "I'm discriminating you're Han Chinese" (ethnicity). It's interesting you would write this as if nobody's pointed out actual cultural differences yet.