Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari...
by Viliam1234 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:47PM
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> Sorry, no; racism is just about biology, by definition. Culture is not race.
Unfortunately, some people have redefined "racism" to mean dislike of anything related to another ethnic group. Biology, culture, religion, whatever.
I agree with you here. Blaming the culture is the opposite of blaming the biology. But the meaning of "racism" has expanded from "blaming biology" to, well, "noticing anything negative about anything". The only non-racist behavior is to say the differences don't exist at all, or blaming them 100% on oppression.
Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari...
by rixed on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:41AM
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Racism is not about noticing patterns, it's about erroneous generalization and the prejudice they comes with it.
In Bulgaria where gypsies live in poverty, many thieves are gypsies, therefore all gypsies are thieves, therefore not hiring gypsies.
Compare with: many thieves are gypsies because poverty lead to antisocial behaviors.
Sorry, no; racism is just about biology, by definition. Culture is not race.
Discrimination based on culture has other terms like xenophobia.
Discriminating against some culture may be justified. For instance, to some extent it is justified to discriminate against a culture that tolerates theft and vandalism.
If you assume that someone with a certain physical appearance automatically belongs some specific culture, and then discriminate against them based on that assumption, that is then racism.
The discriminating against that culture per se isn't racism, and not even necessarily wrong; it depends on the culture.
Not all cultures are equally good.