Boycott US

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Right but what does that have to do with what I said

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (7 children)

you mentioned it would be bold for a Black-only community to try to exist IRL, and that's accurate - those communities even when just majority Black without exclusion policies have historically been oppressed and met with physical violence... Same with indigenous communities and so on, turns out white settler-colonial culture is intolerant and violent.

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

No I mentioned it would be bold to try to excuse the racism with the mentioned stuff

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

ah, didn't realize you meant "racism" as meaning anti-white. To be honest I do think the relevant aspect of what makes something racist is the direction of the flow of power.

When a marginalized group is persecuted or oppressed by a dominant group, it's the oppression and power difference that is relevant even more than the narrow sense in which group categories are used to make decisions. This is why affirmative action is not racist, for example.

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Oof, called this in my first comment

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yes, I'm somewhat reiterating a view you were originally criticizing - though I'm doing that because you pointed it out, not sure a "yes, actually" is really a "called it" moment, but sure - let's go with that anyway, it's almost Friday 😄

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Racism is racism, no matter how anyone tries to dress it up.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Do you think affirmative action is racist?

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago

The article itself mentions "positive discrimination" and "reverse racism" but the overall thing is a poor comparison since the community in this case would be "no whites" which would absolutely be racist since it's excluding people because of their race.