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Off Topic / Re: Anyone notice BLM is only around during election seasons?
« on: July 07, 2020, 01:10:42 AM »
Can we maybe stop with the strawman bullstuff please? No one has seriously suggested that racism doesn’t exist.
Also here’s a take:
"Racism is bad" is absolutely true if by "racism" you mean something ideological, like the belief that race X is superior to and ought to rule over race Y.
But if "racism" means saying you think all lives matter, and that black lives don't matter even the tiniest bit more than white lives on account of being black, (because there is no such thing as a one-sided equality) then whether this definition of "racism" is bad or not is more of an open question.
If "racism" means "benefitting from a system in which whites tend to get more desirable results on average" then that is nowhere near enough information to say whether it's bad or not.
The meaning of the term has been distorted beyond all recognition. You have to add a qualifier, like "what everyone understood racism to mean in the 1960s" (which is definitely bad) before it becomes specific enough to be meaningful.
Also here’s a take:
"Racism is bad" is absolutely true if by "racism" you mean something ideological, like the belief that race X is superior to and ought to rule over race Y.
But if "racism" means saying you think all lives matter, and that black lives don't matter even the tiniest bit more than white lives on account of being black, (because there is no such thing as a one-sided equality) then whether this definition of "racism" is bad or not is more of an open question.
If "racism" means "benefitting from a system in which whites tend to get more desirable results on average" then that is nowhere near enough information to say whether it's bad or not.
The meaning of the term has been distorted beyond all recognition. You have to add a qualifier, like "what everyone understood racism to mean in the 1960s" (which is definitely bad) before it becomes specific enough to be meaningful.