Comment by Mountain_Skies
1 year ago
Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible. This has been part of their belief system for decades, probably heard on a widescale for the first time during an episode of season one of 'The Real World' in 1992 but favored in academia for much longer than that.
It's because they have a very different definition of racism. Basically, according to this belief, if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination because of your genetic makeup.
That sounds like a very racist defintion of racism to me.
Redefining words is what a lot of the last ~10 years of polarization boils down to.
> if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination
That is not a crazy idea, but it does raise the question: who is the ethnic group currently in power? Against which group will slurs and discrimination result in punishment, and against which group will they be ignored — or even praised?
Ironically, this is the exact same reasoning Neo-Nazis use for their hatred of the Jewish population. Weird how these parallels between extremist ideologies keep arising.
It's almost like the "socialism" part of "national socialism" was not in fact irrelevant. See: Ba'aathism.
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