Think that’s the best option
Would be good to know where somebody said racism is good?
Do I really want to, it’s kinda fun watching you guys
Only you can answer that
This is amusing on a few levels.
Looks like I rattled some cages with my post. Exactly the type with an axe to grind about how unfair it is that an Asian women lashing out at years of racial abuse is somehow an epidemic and unjust on all the white racists who “cant get away with it” like they used to.Think that’s the best option
Would be good to know where somebody said racism is good?
Do I really want to, it’s kinda fun watching you guys
I enjoyed your post for what it’s worth, didn’t agree with a whole lot but I appreciated the time taken to formulate your thought process.
No. You can get angry and aggressive without being racist. There is just no justification for abusing somebody else's race.
I love shaking the table a bit
Really?
Yeah, what I mostly took from this story is pure anger at not being able to shout racial abuse on the streets, tweet it or facebook it. Damn white privileges getting reeled in
Yep, because the insinuation is that racism only happens when it adheres to the dictionary definition of racism.
But the dictionary definition is incredibly broad and the only thing it seems to exclude is anti-white racism?
Sure, but for any definition of a word to change a new definition must have reached a certain critical mass with the populace. I don't think we're there in this case, I haven't seen an alternative definition of the word that better fits the description or is more widely accepted.
What do you mean by the bolded part?
Im not sure what anti-white racism is, surely racism is just racism right? In the same way things like ‘reverse racism’ don’t make sense to me.
What I’m trying to say is that depending on the dictionary to only try and understand what racism is, is a very narrow minded perspective.Sure, but for any definition of a word to change a new definition must have reached a certain critical mass with the populace. I don't think we're there in this case, I haven't seen an alternative definition of the word that better fits the description or is more widely accepted.
I don't believe term invocation is a privilege of the racism word alone. It's pretty often invoked when we talk about social or political concepts which inherently tend to be misused far more than the factual words like "table" for example. I see people very often have to explain or correct others in the definition of various "isms" like fascism, socialism, libertarianism etc. etc.
As an irrelevant footnote, I refer to the dictionary very often. I believe that's my 3rd or 4th time this week on this week alone for entirely different words. That's a trait of mine, I'm a bit of stickler for definition and I'm fairly consistent in that regard.
He must really have an awful lot of self hate running through his body.
As a group, us white men are pretty bullshit?
You're wrong, I happen to love myself. A lot.
Why are white men bullshit?
Look at the fecking state of the western world, and you should have your answer. Yes, it's unfair to just write off all white men as bullshit, but who's to blame for the recent rise of sexism, xenophobia and outright racism? It's white men. So I'll forgive a woman of colour for making a general (and probably not 100% serious) twitter post about white men being bullshit.
There's a difference between institutional racism and being a racist. Being racist is certainly comparable imo.
Mainly racists, sexists, and xenophobes, I would have thought.
And what do they have in common? Whiteness. So yeah, you'll have to forgive me for not condemning someone on the receiving end of that kind of shit for making a general statement about us as a group.
Maybe you don't realise it yet but human rights are respected more in Western countries than probably anywhere else in the world. White men contributed to that. We're not there yet, but we're doing much better than other cultures and societies.
Give over. Sexism is rife amongst most cultures. As is racism.
Uncle Tom
I'm not so sure its flawed as the term was never intended to be flexible so that it might one day be redefined beyond its actual meaning.
My goodness.
Yeah, women are fleeing in droves from the West to Asia, Africa and the Middle-East where there is nothing of the sort.
This seems incredibly wrong.
Which goes back to my original point. Because of the inflexibility, you then have people who deny something racist occurred because it doesn’t line up with the dictionary definition, or believe racism only exists according to the dictionary definition.
Wrong in what way
This I fully agree with you on. I'm not sure it's the dictionary definition that is at fault though, more their education. I'm not sure what you want it changed to either, do you have an example?
Big time
The basic definition of racism is:
