‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by pessimizer on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:14AM (#24896364)

If you go around asking who the "real racists" are, you'll never find any. Turns out self-reporting is dubious.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by LandR on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:37AM (#24896593)

If you declare everyone a racist then finding the actual racists becomes a much harder problem.

Firstly, if everyone is a racist then the word racist loses meaning. So when you have an actual racist and say this person is racist, it's meaningless. Everyone is racist.

Secondly, the amount of false positives will just be crazy high. How can this possibly ever work?

I don't know what they think they are achieving?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by eli_gottlieb on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:04AM (#24896914)

>I don't know what they think they are achieving?

They don't think they're actually hunting down people who hate others based on race. They're self-consciously building class power that serves themselves as individuals and the material interests of their class.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by LanceH on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:30AM (#24896513)

The alternative is hardly declaring people such based on skin color.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by SuoDuanDao on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:48PM (#24898190)

Are you a real racist?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by eli_gottlieb on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:03AM (#24896897)

Klansmen and neo-Nazis are perfectly happy to call themselves racists.

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