I fully acknowledge my place of privilege, but yes I’ve experienced racism. I understand it’s pretty mild relative to what others experience, but to say it doesn’t exist is just starting an argument. Feel free to say it’s mild and describe how someone else has to suffer much more serious racism, and I’ll probably agree and ask what we can do about it
And it’s not white people food, it’s specifically British food and Midwest us food that taste bland and flavorless. I don’t get it: both benefit from large immigrant population from some of the world’s greatest cuisines ……. So wtf are they eating?
Well, ackshually 🤓
Seriously though, that’s not the definition most people use, and you’re never going to change minds through pedantry. Also, people like this always seem to be colossal losers.
And the true definition is what it is not merely because of consensus but also because it’s the meaning that has actually been the most useful for deconstructing and understanding the systems of privledge that racial distinction leverages.
Just going to leave this old but gold video here for all the people in the comments: https://youtu.be/dw_mRaIHb-M?is=OpX9nrxIZBss7HCe
This guys does it well while keeping it funny.
I still disagree with the absolutism that opens an opportunity for people to get defensive, but the comedian focuses more on the scope, the seriousness, the disparities and extremes. And that’s only the well known and widely agreed issues
Maybe I’m generalizing from my own reactions too much but this is a great approach to communicating the issue
Hate to be a descriptivist but no, you don’t just get to change what a word means and then get mad because people are using it the correct way.
Racism is discrimination based on race, no matter how many arts majors screech otherwise.
Arts majors?
I agree with your comment but… Arts majors?
I mean I’ll say there are different severities but it is still racism.
I suppose it’s a sign of Lemmy’s popularity that it’s now finding the whiny white redditors pissing and moaning about being called cracker.
Btw I was this week year old when I realized “cracker” means “slave owner”. As in, whip cracker.
I mean sure if you use your own made-up definition of what racism is.
Racism as defined is the belief that one’s race is better than another.
It doesn’t matter what race you are. As long as you hold that belief you are in fact a racist.
It’s basically moving the goal posts. Language is a malleable thing, however when one word is being already actively used by the majority of people for an adjacent meaning then a new word is needed. If people can’t use context other than the race of the victim to determine if you mean someone was racist or racist+ then your word sucks.
These are always my favorite: “Language is malleable.” It is indeed. But that’s a poor excuse, especially in situations like this, where the person in the post above is literally inventing her own definition of racism to fit her narrative.
Language does change over time. It adapts as needed to convey meaning more effectively in discourse between people.
Just not here.
The concept of believing one’s own race is superior to others has not changed. We already have a word that describes that state of mind.
That word doesn’t suddenly get to change its meaning the moment the established definition no longer supports the speaker’s narrative. The meaning remains the same.
Words do often suddenly get a new meaning but one not adjacent one that causes confusion. If a hat is “sick” nobody assume the hat has an illness. It’s just pathetic and it equates actual racism to stuff like people who think they are opposed for getting in trouble at work if they say the n word.
racism noun
- prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group
lanzybear is an idiot
Exactly, lazybear’s take is very close to the moronic thinking making people believe that men can’t be raped.
Stop making simple concepts complicated.
It’s not an original thought, but a very publicly taught one. Which was a redefinition made by some well meaning academics and activists who wanted to narrow the focus of civil rights work to the most egregious violations.
(Which would have been a laudable goal except that it makes everyone fight about what “racism” means instead of solving anything and implicitly tells poor whites that their economic oppression doesn’t matter.)