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There is no word for prejudice against a culture because we don't have the same consensus that's axiomatically evil. And if we did the developers would not be g
by prodigal_erik 12y ago
There is no word for prejudice against a culture because we don't have the same consensus that's axiomatically evil. And if we did the developers would not be guilty of it. The policy is insensitive, capricious, heavy-handed, and stupid, but it's not driven by developers' opinions about native american bloodlines or even names. Calling it "racism" is an accusation of a uniquely dangerous kind of malevolent prejudice.
- dragonwriter 12y agoThere is no distinct word for prejudice against a culture, because ethnicities (which are cultures) and races (which are culturally imposed constructs, though they are portrayed as biological distinctions) are often treated interchangeably, so prejudice against cultures (especially in the form of ethnicity) are generally described as racism. For instance anti-Hispanic bigotry is usually described as racism, though "Hispanic" describes an ethnicity -- that is, a culture -- not a race.
- ahelwer 12y agoThe developers are not racist. My entire original point is their attitudes and intents were irrelevant. The system they created is very much racist, completely independent about how they felt in creating it; I'm not sure how you can really dispute that. The venerable Jay Smooth describes a closely-related distinction here[0]. Also, when you describe a system as racist that's somewhat different from describing a person as racist, which might be a place we're talking past each other. Re: the culture/race/ethnicity terminology quagmire, the sister comment by dragonwriter explains it well. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc