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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by bakugo on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:51PM (#33375768)
Funny, I was expecting you to come up with some contrived justification as to why racism is totally different depending on what race it's against, like all leftists do, and you did exactly that.
Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by socialismisok on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:20PM (#33376294)
I disagree, I believe racism, discrimination, and prejudice are all separate concepts.

Prejudice is the internal feeling that another group is inferior. Nearly all of the tweets above exhibited prejudice.

Discrimination is acting on that prejudice. Feeling someone is inferior is one thing, acting on it is a notable different thing. Again, nearly all the tweets there were discriminatory. No disagreements from me.

Here's where we'll disagree:

Racism is discrimination with social power. There's a clear difference between a weak, powerless group discriminating and a powerful group discriminating. In both cases, the discrimination is absolutely wrong. Discrimination against white folks is wrong. But it's clear there is some type of discrimination against a race where the powerful impact the minority disproportionally. Sentencing of criminals, for instance.

The phenomenon of disproportionate impact absolutely exists, but we can disagree whether that should be the definition of racism. That's fine. If you believe racism is "any discrimination based on race", then yes, these tweets would be racist. If you believe "racism is discrimination based on race with a systemic power imbalance", then no, most of these tweets are not racist.

I believe both definitions are valid and cultural. I'm happy to engage with your definition if it's different. Both definitions are in common use, and obviously clash, but I think it's useful to say, "which definition are we using, and using that definition, would these tweets be racist?"

There's no need for you to throw jabs or make sweeping generalizations. We, you and I, can chat politely about this.

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by djillionsmix on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:03AM (#33394135)
Nonwhite races have plenty of power.
Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by socialismisok on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:35AM (#33394827)
History and data disagrees. When did Redlining end in the US, is it likely that people who suffered it now have less wealth, or passed on less wealth to their children?

What about sentencing for prison? Or discipline in school? Or rejection of job applications? All of which have favorable outcomes for white people.

The point is that white folks benefit from systemic advantages (usually).