Comment on If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Black people denigrating blacker people, Indians denigrating darker Indians, and so on. Yeah, we’re tribal, evolved that way.

  These people all bent over the word “race”. Meh. Give it a rest. The word used to be in common parlance, now I never here it IRL, despite being told us Southerners are the most racist people on Earth.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I'm in the deep south and I hear it a lot, from every race.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People use the word “race” in conversation? Hard to get my head around! Not doubting you, but we don’t talk like that. OTOH, we’re seriously race (heh) mixed in NW Florida. My block is a nearly perfect cross-section of black, white, Asian demographics for the area. LOL, my wife being the 1% Asian rep. :)

      No Hispanic folk, but they were really rare before 2004. No joke, there were hardly any Mexican restaurants before they flooded in to save us from the destruction.

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        OTOH, we're seriously race (heh) mixed in NW Florida

        Maybe you're so used to it, you don't notice. Or maybe it's said in other ways, eg, "Certain races do this thing or think that way." Or maybe it's more subtle, "That's just their culture." "That's just how their people are."

        It's also maddening when discussing medical issues. "Why does my race have to be brought into it?” "Because certain ethnicities have problems with this particular medical condition moreso than others." "Because I'm more susceptible to x and I can't do y with you."

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      south of what?

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Might be a German thing, but race and racist don't have the same base for nothing. You don't talk like that here and I've only heard it in the us. Maybe Scots bite their tongue taking to a German about those things.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plural of anecdote... Yes I know, forgive me for not documenting all the times I've heard it. Maybe people posture, depending on the surrounding people. Maybe they feel more free to be more honest as tourists. Perhaps both.

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