Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)

Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) by inglor_cz on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:23PM (#28250968)

100 years ago, a similar question was posed by Lenin:

"Who, whom?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who,_whom%3F)

This isn't really about definition of the word; it is about political power, because whoever gets this word branded on their forehead, loses.

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Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) by yasp on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:38PM (#28251136)

> The sovereign is he who selects the null hypothesis.

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2012/11/adore-river...

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Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) by mattparcens on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:50PM (#28253346)

Aside: (that's an excellent quote and logical point) - I read the Wikipedia article on the author of that essay, and got an extremely strong impression of being told how to feel about him, more so than being presented with facts about him.

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Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) by traloid on Friday August 20, 2021 @08:11PM (#28252818)

Interesting, thanks. I never expected to agree with Moldbug.

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Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020) by darksaints on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:51PM (#28251271)

That's a pretty strained comparison. Lenin was talking about the economic struggle for dominance between two mutually exclusive ideologies, of which only one could win. There was no implication of being branded with an epithet for political dominance.

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