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A lot of racists love race. It is why they’re racist. Race is what means certain people belong in certain places and others are not.
It also obscures class consciousness: the underlying reason racism is such a popular political tool for any given ruling class.
It also obscures class consciousness: the underlying reason racism is such a popular political tool for any given ruling class.
…body count!..now that’s a name i’ve not heard in a long, long time: a long time…
I wouldn’t say that the ruling class loves racism, but when the people are looking for someone to blame they’d understandably rather throw minorities under the bus than lie down themselves.
I love my race, it is the best race on the planet. It has invented so many things. I am proud of my race.
And when I say “my race” I obviously mean the only race that matters: the human race.
Everything else are just variations.
When I say “my race” I mean the mole people.
I have two half-Thai cousins who live in Florida (natch) and they are flagrant white supremacists and anti-immigration, despite having been born to a Thai immigrant who only recently became a US citizen. For bonus points, one of them happens to look generically Central American and the other looks Japanese, so they got lots of shit growing up for being a variety of different races. You would think that might have made them sensitive to people on the receiving end of racism, but nope - I guess it just taught them how to do it.
When you’re surrounded by people with a certain ideological point of view, its very easy to go-along in order to get-along. Often, being more racist is a mechanism outsiders will use in order to prove they’re part of the clan. When you don’t have your skin color to prove your racist bonafides, you need to be outspoken to let your racist neighbors and coworkers know that you’re on their “team”.
You would think that might have made them sensitive to people on the receiving end of racism
Abuse begets abuse. Treat someone like shit and they’ll learn it is acceptable to treat other people like shit. The only way to curb the cycle of pain is to discourage the behavior. That’s what it means to “Go Woke”, in the end. Standing up to bullying and protecting the vulnerable means interrupting the process of indoctrinating the next generation in the violence of its elders.
What is happening with this image? The quality is low because OP lazily reposted it from some other secondary source, but what’s that yellow rectangle?
that’s the national geographic logo. this post was taken from a nature documentary
It’s censorship. People keep censoring about because they fear getting banned on whatever crappy social media site they originally posted it too.
Why would “race” be a problem, but not “racist”?
you call it laziness where some call it loving wear and tear
Racists think there is some sort of hierarchy among groups/nations, of which of course their own is at the top.
Doesn’t matter where the racist are from, Asia, South America, North America, Europe, Africa, …
They always believe they belong to the cream of the crop, and use different specific statistics to prove so.
But that is just dumb login. In reality there are only 2 groups: normal people at the top, and racists at the bottom. Even the most useless non-racist adds more to humanity than the best racist.
Racists add so little to society, they have to pretend skin colour is important.
Racism is a cancer on humanity that should be cut out with a huge knife.
The problem is that even without malice in one’s words and action, the recognition of race itself is considered racist.
Is it though? Or is that just what racists who don’t think they’re racist like to tell themselves because they believe in pseudoscience with embedded racism?
The whole topic is a minefield.
That’s because the concept of biological races has been thouroughly debunked. I will never understand why Anglophones still insist on using the word “race”.
Because nobody is talking about biological races when they say “race” any more? Race as a social construct exists just as much as gender. If you simply pretend that race doesn’t exist, you aren’t being anti-racist, you’re choosing to close your eyes on the racism that’s still happening.
look I’m not in favor of discriminating against people based on what race they’re a part of but also I’m a race realist; I think pretending all races are equal and there’s no difference between any two races is ludicrous and against all empirical knowledge we’ve accumulated over decades.
of course some races are better than others and one way or another, one race will have to be, for lack of a better word, “superior”. again this is not a condemnation against anyone who may be a part of one race or another, or even multiple races. but if we consider historical achievements, we would have no choice but to accept that bay to breakers is simply the superior race.
Damn your joke is so good people are actually falling for it lol
to be truthful I made it so deliberately obnoxious that it’s unfair to expect people to suffer through. I knew it would go underwater but that’s the only way it could work at all. no fun if you see it coming.
Not only do I highly doubt the validity of your argument, which an overwhelming majority of scholars would disqualify based on its implicit assumptions (although not the idea that a hierarchy of societies exist at a given point of time), but I also strongly think it has no place on Lemmy. To see it hasn’t been moderated yet is a surprise - an unwelcome one.
Hate to break it to you but you’ve just been baited
lol you got baited so hard.
Read the full comment before popping off hahahaha
I don’t blame you for not reading it all the way through. I probably wouldn’t.
This is just wrong. Demand deportation for naturalized citizens has split the European nationalists in the EU Parliament.
What are they all racing towards though?
The inevitable heat death of the universe
There are so many terms today that are so over used that they have become meaningless. There are still actual racists. Unfortunately there will always be racists. But you minimize that real problem by shouting “racist” at anyone who disagrees with you
Who are the real racists?
I can’t think of anyone with a more direct answer than Martin Luther King - “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Anyone who judges someone by the color of their skin is a racist
I’ve not heard it overused. Now, if your definition of racism is “has a deep hatred of some race” then I can see why you’d think that. Most people don’t hate other races, we just do the occasional racism without even thinking about it.
I post this because i thought it was funny. But i agree with what you said.
Bingo. The stupid shit I see called racist around here. Yikes. Plenty of real racism to go around y’all!
This was a plot point in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country the factions in each empire who wanted to preserve the Federation-Klingon antagonism collaborated to subvert diplomacy efforts).
You can hate me now
Is it racism if you have every race equally?
have
U talking about an all races orgy?
whoops accidental mistype yeeeeeee :)
That’s how you get out of jury duty.
This (today’s) article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite nicely:
Some people just think society runs most smoothly/efficiently when people are mostly segregated by race.
I mean, there is some truth to that.
Sharing culture is one of the most beautiful things humanity has to offer each other.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 days ago
My favorite Kurt Vonnegut book is ‘Mother Night.’ At one point a white supremist teams up with ‘The Black Fuhrer of Harlem.’ An FBI man asks the white guy why he’s working with an African-American?
“We both agree that the wrong people are in charge.”
introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Enemy of my enemy is my friend or some shit like that.
tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
“We can be friends until the revolution. After that it gets difficult.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Similar to why the Nazis were willing to work with the Japanese. A common enemy.