Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
by colanderman on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:32PM
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Culture has always played a part in what we call "racism" and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Especially it is disingenuous to claim that racism is rare, yet that it alone, and not anti-multiculturalism, was responsible for white flight.
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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
by TheAdamAndChe on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:35PM
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> Culture has always played a part in what we call "racism" and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
You are right. There is generally a correlation between the two, and historically the line has been blurred. They are, however, significantly different things, and I always take care to differentiate the two. The idea that genetics and skin color determine superiority is racism, and is ignorant of the facts. A culture, though, determines basic things like family structure and the definition of right and wrong. Do we really want to argue that there is no right and wrong way to live life?
> Especially it is disingenuous to claim that racism is rare, yet that it alone, and not anti-multiculturalism, was responsible for white flight.
We weren't discussing white flight. I never made that claim.