• Wilibus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I try not to keep up with social norms but this comment really perplexed me. I tend to subscribe to a very literal definition of the term racist.

    This comment is inherently degrading to people and their culture based on the colour of their skin. That’s racism full stop, creating racism power rankings with thresholds where comments aren’t racist if you are disparaging a collectively agreed upon advantaged race doesn’t seem like the proper direction to be going if the goal is to stop racially motivated prejudice.

    • CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Just to save you some headache, the people arguing racism requires power structures are Marxists, they view everything through class structures, and don’t acknowledge that racism can occured at the level of individuals.