Jonathan
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@bitsinabyte @LagomProphet @ArtemisConsort Are you saying that your definition of
racism (power plus prejudice) traces to 1950?
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The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.
What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.
Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.
Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.
Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.
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@CuriousPejjy They’ve finally made up! Jamie and Elon even did an interview! Water under the bridge 🤣 that was a long beef they had going
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@bitsinabyte @reynoldscameron @ArtemisConsort Calling someone else dummy when you clearly don't know what you're talking about is rich.
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@StateofOhayo @dami_cole @ArtemisConsort Its position from experience. And to be clear, I actually agree with what the original post said. Racism is dumb.
We’re actually just living our lives. A white guy made the OP about racism. I just clarified the definition of it.
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@bitsinabyte @dami_cole @ArtemisConsort has nothing to do with that. his original comment was straight out of every leftist mouth i've had the misfortune of hearing for the last 15 years. it's a liberal position and therefore a fair assumption. you guys are obsessed with white people my god.
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@bitsinabyte @Nomad_Jesus_ @ArtemisConsort I feel like it’s the search engines and AI feeding you false information and making you an emotional train wreck on the internet. Might want to log out for a couple of days and read on the topic.
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@bitsinabyte @LagomProphet @ArtemisConsort The AI is obviously trained in leftist academic language that normal people don’t buy into.
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Mostly because blacks see racism as justification for their actions.
Justification for their violent nature. It’s not their nature, it’s systemic racism!
Justification for why they didn’t get the job. It’s not lack of qualifications it’s racism!
Justification for hitting someone over a word. He said ‘the N word’ so I’m good hitting him right? It’s not my lack of impulse control and violent nature, it’s racism!
Justification over stealing, rape, murder, assault. 20% of the population committing 70% of the violent crime is racism! Statistics and numbers are inherently racist.
It’s easier to use racism as justification than it is to look in the mirror and see the real problem.
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@enochhowl @ArtemisConsort And here people are in these same comments saying racism doesn’t exist and all whites think it’s bad 🤣
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@bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort We should live separately.
Any worthwhile exchange, cultural or otherwise, can be achieved through in real life visits and digital media.
Enough is enough.
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@bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort Affirmative Action and DEI programs are systemic and, therefore, racist.
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@Gladiator6577 @ArtemisConsort Conflation. I agree, opportunity abounds. To say systemic racism doesn’t exist tell that to a legal Hispanic that was deported by ICE or a Muslim in 2001.
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@bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort Every American has opportunities. Anyone can go to college -- many for free. Anyone can open a brokerage account at Fidelity. Libraries have free books to read in order to gain knowledge. There are numerous welfare programs, etc. Systemic racism is a myth.
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@Stamptonoid @LagomProphet @ArtemisConsort 1990? Is that when you were born? Try 1950’s when civil rights act was passed
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@bitsinabyte @LagomProphet @ArtemisConsort Nobody defined racism this way until cerca 1990
The term systemic racism meant “racism plus power” or racism institutionalized. But critical theory needed a way to attribute racism only to white people, so they suggested the definition that you now take as the only true one
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You guys are sounding like the biggest bunch of whiny ass bitches I’ve ever heard. White men complaining about racism is literally the funniest and most ironic things. Go watch a child the builder video if you need to feel good about yourself.
It’s really pathetic. You get a small taste of what everyone else has been dealing with from you and your the biggest victims in the world now. Turns out you just may not be as skilled and talented as you thought you were. You mad you can’t say racist things? Have competition for jobs now? The fact that you’re complaining about not having privilege anymore and pointing at “black privilege” wtf that is. Being able to pull your girl? Is that what black privilege is? Iono you let me know because 99% of the people I work with are white.
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@bitsinabyte @brian_t_muldoon @ArtemisConsort This response demonstrates you have no clue about reality. BIack privilege is quite real. BIacks are elevated over whites in every context. Jobs, promotions, university admissions, elected office, movies, commercials, photography, taxpayer support, etc.
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@tgwoodsta @ArtemisConsort A mythical power difference? You’re right, white men never had any power. 🤣
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@bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort How exactly are you measuring this mythical power difference? Like how do you know who can be racist and who can't based on these power rankings of which you refer.
Also do 1/2 black 1/2 white people get mixed rankings?
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Reminder that by this definition white people cannot be racist since the system is literally rigged against them
Jonathan@bitsinabyte
No black person would define racism like that. Racism is systemic in nature and pertains to a power dynamic. No one individual in society calling another individual a nasty name. You’re leaving out the aggregate effect of all the individuals doing “racist” things in aggregate. Like redlining….thats racist. A bank denying mortgages due to race, that’s racism. A kid calling another kid the n-word is bigotry but it’s not racist. Same kid as a 40 year old man never promoting anyone of color due to their color, racism.
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@jspilman @ArtemisConsort No, I don’t. You seem to have outcomes confused with opportunity. And seem to be oblivious to the behavior of your peers.
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@bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort Jonathan thinks inequity is racism.
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@MarioNawfal Love how nobody checked on him and continued to keep standing close to the robot. lol
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@dami_cole @StateofOhayo @ArtemisConsort How political someone is is almost an intelligence test now.
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@StateofOhayo @bitsinabyte @ArtemisConsort Again, i ask sincerely... why is automatically assumed when someone (mostly not white) gives an opinion or perspective, they are automatically deemed liberals? Can people have free-thinking without a political affiliation?
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