you mentioned it would be bold for a Black-only community to try to exist IRL, and that’s accurate - those communities even when just majority Black without exclusion policies have historically been oppressed and met with physical violence… Same with indigenous communities and so on, turns out white settler-colonial culture is intolerant and violent.
ah, didn’t realize you meant “racism” as meaning anti-white. To be honest I do think the relevant aspect of what makes something racist is the direction of the flow of power.
When a marginalized group is persecuted or oppressed by a dominant group, it’s the oppression and power difference that is relevant even more than the narrow sense in which group categories are used to make decisions. This is why affirmative action is not racist, for example.
yes, I’m somewhat reiterating a view you were originally criticizing - though I’m doing that because you pointed it out, not sure a “yes, actually” is really a “called it” moment, but sure - let’s go with that anyway, it’s almost Friday 😄
The article itself mentions “positive discrimination” and “reverse racism” but the overall thing is a poor comparison since the community in this case would be “no whites” which would absolutely be racist since it’s excluding people because of their race.
you mentioned it would be bold for a Black-only community to try to exist IRL, and that’s accurate - those communities even when just majority Black without exclusion policies have historically been oppressed and met with physical violence… Same with indigenous communities and so on, turns out white settler-colonial culture is intolerant and violent.
No I mentioned it would be bold to try to excuse the racism with the mentioned stuff
ah, didn’t realize you meant “racism” as meaning anti-white. To be honest I do think the relevant aspect of what makes something racist is the direction of the flow of power.
When a marginalized group is persecuted or oppressed by a dominant group, it’s the oppression and power difference that is relevant even more than the narrow sense in which group categories are used to make decisions. This is why affirmative action is not racist, for example.
Oof, called this in my first comment
yes, I’m somewhat reiterating a view you were originally criticizing - though I’m doing that because you pointed it out, not sure a “yes, actually” is really a “called it” moment, but sure - let’s go with that anyway, it’s almost Friday 😄
Racism is racism, no matter how anyone tries to dress it up.
Do you think affirmative action is racist?
The article itself mentions “positive discrimination” and “reverse racism” but the overall thing is a poor comparison since the community in this case would be “no whites” which would absolutely be racist since it’s excluding people because of their race.