• Sunoc@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    pearl clutching in either direction

    I’m mildly confused on what this means exactly in that situation, but I guess it was not appropriate to say something like I did out of nowhere. Sorry for the bad mood.

    To be very clear, no racism is acceptable, systemic or not. I just feel that putting attention on racism against whites serves the right-wing theories of the replacement and such BS, and that’s unacceptable.

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        29 days ago

        Genuinely teaching ! Thank you for putting in the effort of writing such a detailed reply !

        it’s inaccurate, adds to the noise, sows division, and does less than nothing to change anyone’s mind.

        Yep that’s fair, I can only agree with that. You second paragraph captures what I wanted to express, but it was inappropriate from me to just throw that as a sarcastic comment under a funny post.

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      29 days ago

      In the US ‘racism against whites’ is acknowledging common trends. Racism against everyone else is stereotypes based on misinformed racist caricatures. I don’t mean that sarcastically, that is literally how it works in the US.

      Source: am white.

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        29 days ago

        TIL, thanks !

        It’s always surprising to find out how differently this problem is perceived / acknowledged / dealt with in US vs. in Europe or elsewhere.

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          28 days ago

          The person you are responding to has a pretty awful take.

          Racism against white people isn’t just “acknowledging stereotypes”

          Racism is racism regardless of how it happens. Systemic racism is a separate issue entirely.