• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 days ago

    Ignorance and racism are not the same thing. There’s overlap, but even if it can be hurtful, ignorance is not malicious.

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        24 days ago

        ^ This. In my native Hungary, as much as we would all count as “white” to someone from an actually racially diverse country, people are still super racist against Romani people. Even allegedly progressive people.

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        Many Romani Americans keep their identity a secret due to harmful stereotypes from the media that depict >Roma as nomads, scammers, beggars and thieves.[50] 70% of Romani Americans hide their Romani identity to avoid stigmatization

        That seems worse than in Europe

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      24 days ago

      Ignorance born of environment is understandable.

      Ignorance born of anti-intellectualism is malicious.

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      What does “malicious” mean here? Structural racism often doesn’t have ill intent from any individual people, and nevertheless still affects people’s daily lives.

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      There’s a kind of stubborn ignorance which is very malicious. It’s how we got trump, in part.