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> * To call a country full of any type of people is the definition of racism* This is bullshit. This kind of stuff isn’t black and white. Am I racist for calli
by skrebbel 1y ago
> * To call a country full of any type of people is the definition of racism*
This is bullshit. This kind of stuff isn’t black and white. Am I racist for calling Monaco a place full of rich people? Of course not, I’m describing the situation people are in, not their characters. Same holds here.
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- tremon 1y ago> debate and honest exchange of ideas Yet in your first post in this thread, you accuse your parent of racism and astroturfing. Real honest debate you got there.
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- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> I did not call him a racist. I said his statement could be understood as racist This postmodern redefinition of racism really needs to be discarded. It’s done so much damage by giving actual racists cover, since if everyone is racist then racism isn’t a problem.
- bugbuddy 1y agoNegative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism. There is nothing postmodern about it.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist. If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.
- bugbuddy 1y agoReplying to JumpCrisscross response below: >> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism >It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist. >If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t. This is a distinction without a difference. A negative stereotype about the people of a country is a stereotype about that country's dominant ethnic group. Their geographic location is irrelevant. By this logic, saying "All Japanese people are [X]" is not a racial stereotype as long as you're only talking about the ones in Japan. It only magically becomes a racial stereotype when they are "Japanese Americans." This doesn't make sense. There's a fundamental difference between: Criticizing a state: "Cambodia's economy is struggling and its government is corrupt." Stereotyping a people: "The people of Cambodia are inherently sad and desperate." The original comment did the latter. That is, by definition, a negative ethnic stereotype.
- dang 1y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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