I feel justified but I also feel a bit racist. by Plesiohedron @lemmy.cafe
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Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 11 months agoPresent an argument to support your accusation.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
That isn’t an argument.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s no argument to be had, obviously.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
Then you concede the point and agree that your accusation is baseless.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, your own banned comment said you admit you feel “a bit” racist, so I know you are not asking me to present an argument that you’re racist.
Are you… asking me to present an argument that racism is wrong?
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
That isn’t an argument.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It needn’t be one.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 11 months ago
Here’s an argument if ur gonna make distinctions bases upon race ur racist. Thus race based dei is racist. If race based dei isn’t racist then negative comments based upon race also aren’t racist. To have one without the other is simply doublethink.
barooboodoo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s kind of amazing to see the mental gymnastics racists do to compare racism to DEI. The human brain works in some truly mysterious ways.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 11 months ago
Please explain how dei giving handouts based upon race isn’t racist?
barooboodoo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well 1) They’re not handouts and 2) They’re adjusting for the biases shown in those industries previously and are meant to combat the discrimination these people have faced every day of their lives.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. That’s stupid. Very, very stupid. How are races defined without specifying differences between races?
What makes something racist is unfounded critique of races, not simply references races.
DISCLAIMER: I do not mean this in the context of OP’s digging at Indians. Without some heavy qualifications that go far beyond anecdote, it’s kinda’ a racist statement…
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 11 months ago
So if the critique is founded then its not racist? U can find a lot of statistics that are true and would get you called an extreme racist if u said em.
For example is it racist to say that Arabs are more inbred? europepmc.org/article/MED/19811666
By your logic its also not racist to say that black people in america commit a disproportionate amount of crime crimeresearch.org/…/violent-crime-rates-by-race/
These claims are founded in science and fact so therefore not racist right?
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You seem to be completely forgetting that my point was that they should not be used to disparage an entire race, like pit bulls. You are on my side but you don’t even realize it…
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
An argument goes : “it’s racist because…”
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 11 months ago
Making distinctions/different rules/different judgements bases upon race and not the content of ones character is racist.