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If you don't think most white Americans are racist I have a bridge to sell you
I'll only buy it if a black neighborhood was bulldozed in order to build it
You're racist
Many scholars in sociology and Black Studies define racism not just as personal prejudice, but as a structural system that requires power to enforce racial bias. This framework argues that for prejudice to function as racism, it must be backed by societal power which leads to real-world consequences and material disadvantages for marginalized groups. From this perspective, a society where institutional power is held by white people, only white people can enact racism.
Anyone, regardless of race, can hold bigoted or prejudiced views, I do in fact hold prejudiced views of white people as racist.
I couldn't imagine a better response to such an infantile attack lol. Thanks.
Calling someone racist because they hold prejudice views against white people is infantile--got it lol
Yes, glad we cleared that up.
If you're gonna bait you gotta do a better job lol
Just stating facts. Feel free to try to convince me that hating on a group of people based on the color of their skin isn't racist. I don't buy this argument that one group of people can do it to another, but that group can't do it back. Not one single bit
I won't bother because you're an idiot
Lol
Quoting it because you need to read it again. If you wanna be dense this is the end of our conversation here.
Yeah, I read it. You can find a scholar to justify anything you want. Every color of person has enslaved and oppressed every color of person through time, and even into today. This is the literal definition of racism. If you want to deal with systematic oppression, then call it that--doesnt change the fact that you're being racist.
Prejudice implies it's an unfair characterization when it's really not, but that might be the prejudice talking
Like I said, you're racist. It only takes one asshole to begin turning groups of people against others based on the color of their skin, and here you are doing it.
Nah lmao
White people are invented it and are mostly all already doing it. You have all the power and we have none, You have a child's understanding of the world.
Bruh, everybody has oppressed everybody at some point. Just accept that everybody can be racist against everybody, and it's happening right here in this Lemmy thread
Boo hoo, cry some more of your white fragility tears
Lol