Anti-Racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
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Anti-Racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
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#2It looks to me that people have lost their minds - they have turned anti racism into clear and pure racism.
This is also how we should call people like Robin Broshi - racist.
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#3That's the entire point. Divide and conquer.
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#4It looks to me that people have lost their minds - they have turned anti racism into clear and pure racism. This is also how we should call people like Robin Broshi - racist.
Anti-racism is a contested concept that well-meaning people define and practice differently. Folks who have different ideas about how to combat racism should engage one another. They might even attempt a reciprocal book exchange, in which everyone works to understand how others see the world.
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#5It looks to me that people have lost their minds - they have turned anti racism into clear and pure racism. This is also how we should call people like Robin Broshi - racist.
It's the whole equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome argument all over.
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#6It looks to me that people have lost their minds - they have turned anti racism into clear and pure racism. This is also how we should call people like Robin Broshi - racist.
Yep, Robin Broshi is an absolute racist yelling about how others are racist. Western white women are going full bat shit insane.
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#7That's the entire point. Divide and conquer.
Not sure if there is a "point". I just see the tactics of western feminism, "victimization" is going too far and no longer makes any sense to most people, but they are yelling about the same things they have been for years. White men must pay!
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#8I was politically active on the left over 10 years ago and I still remember how a loud minority seemed obsessed with factions and seeding discord. It was a really effective tactic, made me wonder if it was active sabotage at times. Not much has changed.
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#9It looks to me that people have lost their minds - they have turned anti racism into clear and pure racism. This is also how we should call people like Robin Broshi - racist.
Frankly I think neither "side" in most of these arguments is clearly and consistently racist (though obviously racism is a huge problem in society regardless of these arguments), and both "sides" tend to jump to accusations of racism too quickly. I'm not putting forward a "both sides are just as bad" argument - far from it - but I'm not making that distinction right now. What I am saying is that, in cases where I do see one or both sides of one of these arguments behaving irrationally, it is almost always a too-quick jump to accusations of racism, rather than the inverse problem: Actually being racist. However, despite this being a "both sides" problem, what I think happens is that when somebody on the "anti-racism side" (or "pro-diversity side" or whatever) ends up doing something apparently racist (usually against whites), it's much more dramatic because of the opportunity to point at hypocrisy, and therefore "counts" more against them than if the other side of that argument had committed some equivalent racism against a non-white.
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#10That article made my head hurt, then it made me a lot sad, then very angry.
I can't tell if these people have just lost their minds, or if they are actually racists who are posing as anti-racists in order to undermine the efforts.