A new moralism is gripping the literary world

Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by leephillips on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:10PM (#26515799)

I’m not even sure there is a single “white” culture within the US. I mainly see the idea promoted by people who want to absorb some credit for the accomplishments of others. See some of the other comments here, about computers being invented by “my people”.

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Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by nickthemagicman on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:04PM (#26517139)

Skin color is s an arbitrary physiological trait.

There's no bald people culture.

Or innie bellybutton culture.

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Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by whydoibother on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:05PM (#26518139)

It's not arbitrary when black folk were specifically enslaved and segregated due to the color of their skin, and therefore developed a culture around that shared experience.

If we enslaved people based on their baldness for a few centuries and then kept discriminating against them for another century, I am sure they would have their own culture born from that shared experience.

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Re:A new moralism is gripping the literary world by nickthemagicman on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:28PM (#26524195)

See the hole in your argument is that not all Black people experienced slavery.

Southern Black people were the only ones in America that did.

Then if you expand that definition globally...the number of total black people experiencing slavery from white people during that time, was actually the very small.

It's like saying all White People share a culture because the Irish had a hard time during British or American repression.

Your using one definition to support your argument but then saying that definition also doesn't apply to other groups.

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