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Evkob@lemmy.ca 5 months agoIn a vacuum, saying “it’s okay to be white” is fine.
Statements are never made in a vacuum, they’re made within society. They’re thus accompanied by context and realities, a ton of little nuances which all affect meaning.
In society, posting (or agreeing with someone posting) “it’s okay to be white” repeated multiple times is racist.
As per your last paragraph, who says we can only deal with one source of racism at a time? How does calling out racist dogwhistles negatively impact Jewish people or residents of Gaza?
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But living life with the presupposition that everyone has full context is ridiculous. Someone who throws up the “OK” hand sign being confronted as a racist is as absurd as saying someone who agrees with those statements is as well. Not everyone has the same wealth of knowledge and to assume people are doing it as a dog whistle or out of malice is as harmful to the people fighting Nazis because to the layman they look like over sensitive kids hunting for problems where none exist.
‘Quiet racism’ is ambiguous, cascading grays that need a wealth of context to address properly. Why focus energy into needles in a haystack when there is a needle factory right next door? We have ‘Loud racism’ right there. We should prioritize it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Making up shit that never happens to illustrate a point is not convincing
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What’s up with people not explaining their point? Which part, boss?
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s social media. They really like to hit the “fuck you” button and not discuss anything.
You have to put yourself in their position though. If they commented anything approaching a discussion and not just casual dismissal, that would mean they’d have to think. Thinking is hard. Don’t do that to them.