. See...this is exactly what I'm talking about. You just bunched together a couple of things you saw me post and used tenuous relationships to put them together.
People of color cannot be racist because they do not have the institutional power to discriminate or oppress whites. This is on top of the fact that your stupid example actually describes prejudice, not discrimination. Racism implies and requires power.
. It isn't. Especially when its coming from a group that is oppressed and disenfranchised by the group they're prejudiced against.
Discrimination and prejudice are two different things and are completely incompatible in your analogy because you're using them wrong and have no idea how what they mean. Being prejudiced is not discriminatory. Prejudice is a state of being. Discrimination is an action. Its similar to the difference between effect and affect.
can 15% of the population, at best, somehow oppress over 50% of the population that still benefits from white supremacy? It has nothing to do with being able to "take it" when the system wasn't built to make it possible. Its the difference between calling someone a cracker and a n****r. History makes a goddamn difference.ing tool?What about in neighborhoods that are primarily black, can blacks be racist in those neighborhoods? What about the schools or HBCU's that are primarily black and run by a primarily black adiminstration, can they be racist in that setting against whites?[/quotes]
Those towns, cities, and schools still operate within a larger system that limits the type of discrimination they could dish out. You ignoring that black people were herded into ghettos for decades due to segregation and disenfranchisement doesn't change that and neither does ignoring how HBCU's were formed because it was the only place a black person could go to college.
No. My reasoning doesn't ignore history and its not just according to me. The continent of Africa has had a long history of European and US expliotation and colonization for centuries which left deeply seeded cultural influence in regards to racial classes. The same goes for South America.
You shouldn't even be trying to use the US social construction of race and apply them to other countries when most countries define race more along ethnic or nationalistic lines.
You can't take history out of the equation because it's inconvenient to your argument.
You said you have a degree in micro-biology right? Well how would you feel or respond to me saying that germ theory was bullshit because I can't see germs with my eyes, evolution is bunk, and that sickness is caused by not spinning like a top every day for 5 seconds when the sun is setting or maybe how it doesn't work that way in 190 out of a million multiverses.
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Those towns, cities, and schools still operate within a larger system that limits the type of discrimination they could dish out. You ignoring that black people were herded into ghettos for decades due to segregation and disenfranchisement doesn't change that and neither does ignoring how HBCU's were formed because it was the only place a black person could go to college.
No. My reasoning doesn't ignore history and its not just according to me. The continent of Africa has had a long history of European and US expliotation and colonization for centuries which left deeply seeded cultural influence in regards to racial classes. The same goes for South America.
You shouldn't even be trying to use the US social construction of race and apply them to other countries when most countries define race more along ethnic or nationalistic lines.
You can't take history out of the equation because it's inconvenient to your argument.
You said you have a degree in micro-biology right? Well how would you feel or respond to me saying that germ theory was bullshit because I can't see germs with my eyes, evolution is bunk, and that sickness is caused by not spinning like a top every day for 5 seconds when the sun is setting or maybe how it doesn't work that way in 190 out of a million multiverses.
It's not a
They're simply not equal, whether it's in intensity or proportion or numbers or even reasons. Again, you can't ignore history.
No one is saying that you're a Bad Person because of what some of your ancestors did, but that you still benefit from the system that allowed them to do what they did and that the system still oppresses those that were oppressed back then.
The thing is that you're trying to apply the term to places where what you're describing is defined differently. Race, as a social construct, means different things in different places. The US conceptions and categorizations of race simply does not exist in the same way around the world despite having similar manifestations of oppression.
You can use them, but that doesn't change the fact that you're just jumbling a bunch of words together without understanding their relationship to one another or the sociological and historical basis for their depth of meaning. Also, intolerance of intolerance isn't bigotry or prejudice anymore than being anti-war makes you a war-monger. You being intolerant of my intolerance to intolerance doesn't give you the moral higher ground and actually makes you supportive of the root intolerance, which in turn, makes you the bigot and intolerant.
Not very descriptive here and if you think what I say is evidence of black supremacist and racist, maybe you should familiarize yourself with one of your so-called great men, Martin Luther King Jr. He makes Wayne Brady look like Malcolm X. Not the real Malcolm X of course, but the one that white people made up and tend to freak out about.
You obviously do care considering you've pointed it out in this very post! And you want to say I have ADD?
HOW ARE MY OF VIEWS OF RACE AND RACISM SICK? You constantly talk about it, but don't come close to explaining WHY. You spend an inordinate amount of posts saying that they're sick and have been doing it for months, yet you don't provide any perspectives of race and racism of your own to counter mine. And If you didn't read my posts, then why the hell are you making vapid comments about what I say as a response to all of my posts?
Close, but no cigar. Global and cultural hegemony would also need to be included in there as well. You would also need to add generational systemic oppression and disenfranchisement.
Uhhh...you mean post 1042? You couldn't have just said that instead? Not to mention that you just copy and pasted my post?
That doesn't mean what you think it means.
Actually, you said "my post above #1044." That's different from "my post above, #1044." It's a small, but important difference.
You're absolutely right. My sense of the word is so weak that I can't describe the various ways it manifests itself or how it works and I have never done so.
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