The lesson was supposed to be “Son, races aren’t actually a thing, they’re a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand.”
Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.
In 8th grade I was talking to my bff who is half Druze and my buddy Dan whose family immigrated from Portugal about how it’s weird that Dan is “white” and yet has a dark brown skin tone while my BFF was not despite having a similar skin tone to myself who is very white.
I went to a pretty mixed high school and a lot of people there decided it was okay to be racist to white people. I asked my Portuguese friend why he didn’t have a problem with it, and he said because he’s not white. Same with my Polish friend. Same with my Portuguese teacher.
Apparently you can earn all the benefits of white privilege while not self-identifying as white, and as long as you aren’t calling yourself “Irish”, people are okay with that.
Denying diferencess actually regresses the human race. What should be thought is that personal and cultural differences have much bigger influence over behaviour then biological ones. And that humans have this thing called a brain, whos internal wiring can be changed to different levels of being an asshole.
If you don’t accept the basic thing, you won’t understand the advanced one.
Lumping people into groups and applying attributes to those people based on the groups they find themselves in denies the individual their right to be different.
The lesson was supposed to be “Son, races aren’t actually a thing, they’re a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand.”
Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.
In 8th grade I was talking to my bff who is half Druze and my buddy Dan whose family immigrated from Portugal about how it’s weird that Dan is “white” and yet has a dark brown skin tone while my BFF was not despite having a similar skin tone to myself who is very white.
I went to a pretty mixed high school and a lot of people there decided it was okay to be racist to white people. I asked my Portuguese friend why he didn’t have a problem with it, and he said because he’s not white. Same with my Polish friend. Same with my Portuguese teacher.
Apparently you can earn all the benefits of white privilege while not self-identifying as white, and as long as you aren’t calling yourself “Irish”, people are okay with that.
For the record you should not be racist to anyone and the “you can’t be racist to white people” are no different than klanspersons.
Hey thanks for saying that.
Dad’s point of view had nothing to do with self-hate, to him it was merely a statement of fact.
What?!
Fine. Let’s have some reading comprehension.
The speaker is repeating an opinion given by the subject of the sentence.
Jesus fuck me. Some of you people are so intent on delivering a sick burn you can’t stop to parse a single sentence.
Denying diferencess actually regresses the human race. What should be thought is that personal and cultural differences have much bigger influence over behaviour then biological ones. And that humans have this thing called a brain, whos internal wiring can be changed to different levels of being an asshole.
If you don’t accept the basic thing, you won’t understand the advanced one.
Lumping people into groups and applying attributes to those people based on the groups they find themselves in denies the individual their right to be different.
Hence I said that it is far less important then individual and cultural differences. But I guess being righteous is more important then reading.
Who said anything about “denying differences”?
“races arn’t actually a thing”
Race isn’t the only thing that differentiates people…
Some people seem to base their entire personality on their race and/or sexuality.
Hence the rest of what I said. But yea, being right is more important then… anything.
I guess saying things like “asians have lower lactose tolerance” is also racist, even though I am also lactose intolerant.
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