What’s race based prejudice if it isn’t racism? You can’t just displace the original meaning and pretend the original never existed
Obviously it’s generally much more harmful in one direction, but acting like people aren’t all just people with the exact same biases, and acting as if which group has power over which isn’t something that has kept changing throughout the history of humanity, and acting as if all of human experience is homogeneous (that all people with the same labels have identical experience), is all nonsensical extremist horseshoe politics stuff.
When you hear people on your own side defend Apartheid but for opposing reasons, you gotta admit those people have gone too far off the deep end. Racist extreme right people push it because they believe people are inherently different and can’t integrate. Delusional extreme left people do it because “people of different status and power can’t mix without abuse” and so they abdicate from the responsibility to support coexistence and mutual understanding, and so they end up helping racists push their policies.
What’s race based prejudice if it isn’t racism? You can’t just displace the original meaning and pretend the original never existed
Obviously it’s generally much more harmful in one direction, but acting like people aren’t all just people with the exact same biases, and acting as if which group has power over which isn’t something that has kept changing throughout the history of humanity, and acting as if all of human experience is homogeneous (that all people with the same labels have identical experience), is all nonsensical extremist horseshoe politics stuff.
When you hear people on your own side defend Apartheid but for opposing reasons, you gotta admit those people have gone too far off the deep end. Racist extreme right people push it because they believe people are inherently different and can’t integrate. Delusional extreme left people do it because “people of different status and power can’t mix without abuse” and so they abdicate from the responsibility to support coexistence and mutual understanding, and so they end up helping racists push their policies.
Who in this thread was defending Apartheid? That take seemed to of come out of nowhere!
Unfortunately I’ve seen real people argue stuff like “black and white people can’t mix”, and who thought that was a progressive belief