Because racism is the discrimination of someone based on their ethnicity. If you are choosing one person over another due solely to their ethnicity, isn’t that discrimination? Shouldn’t people be judged not by the color of their skin? Explicitly advertising that you are selective solely based on race is racism.
I have seen this discussion happen over and over again and a big part of the misunderstanding is some people in the US have the definition of racism also involving power and some don’t. If your definition is the former, it’s what allows people to say “Fuck white people” isn’t racist with a straight face. Before you ask someone if something is racist, ask them what they think racism is. It will save a lot of time and aggravation for everyone.
To be clear, I’m 100% with you, just pointing out some troubles I had when discussing racism in the past and I found out we weren’t all on the same page.
Some white people have no power and some black people have loads of it. Can we just stop this categorization of people by race for if they can or can’t do something?
They can’t. A lot of these movements are only system tools to maintain us controlled. Another great example is LGBT, tons of big tech and corpo uses LGBT flags on their slogans making it effectively a good shield against critics, but LGBT seem to feel okay to be used like that. The same in feminism also. feminist politicians uses them to get votes and reach political positions, then finance very weird seminars, courses, etc. To promote “healthy masculinism models”. It’s like when pope talks about “traditional family” what the hell pope, a celibate and unmarried man knows about having a family?, what the hell women knows about how to be a man? BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE ONLY TOOLS THAT OLIGARCHS USES TO KEEP US OCCUPIED.
Well why do you think it is? Genuinely curious
Because racism is the discrimination of someone based on their ethnicity. If you are choosing one person over another due solely to their ethnicity, isn’t that discrimination? Shouldn’t people be judged not by the color of their skin? Explicitly advertising that you are selective solely based on race is racism.
I have seen this discussion happen over and over again and a big part of the misunderstanding is some people in the US have the definition of racism also involving power and some don’t. If your definition is the former, it’s what allows people to say “Fuck white people” isn’t racist with a straight face. Before you ask someone if something is racist, ask them what they think racism is. It will save a lot of time and aggravation for everyone.
It doesn’t matter what their definition of racism is. “Fuck white people” is racist.
To be clear, I’m 100% with you, just pointing out some troubles I had when discussing racism in the past and I found out we weren’t all on the same page.
Some white people have no power and some black people have loads of it. Can we just stop this categorization of people by race for if they can or can’t do something?
They can’t. A lot of these movements are only system tools to maintain us controlled. Another great example is LGBT, tons of big tech and corpo uses LGBT flags on their slogans making it effectively a good shield against critics, but LGBT seem to feel okay to be used like that. The same in feminism also. feminist politicians uses them to get votes and reach political positions, then finance very weird seminars, courses, etc. To promote “healthy masculinism models”. It’s like when pope talks about “traditional family” what the hell pope, a celibate and unmarried man knows about having a family?, what the hell women knows about how to be a man? BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE ONLY TOOLS THAT OLIGARCHS USES TO KEEP US OCCUPIED.