I like the argument about power and privilege being required for racism. I don’t think it comes anywhere near to being a valid argument, but it is an interesting tactic. Just change the definitions of words as an easy way to solve difficult problems. We could eliminate poverty just by redefining the word to exclude most of the poor. Much easier than actually solving messy and complicated problems.
But even though this discussion has moved in interesting directions, at it’s core, it is about cultural and technological exchange as a very complicated subject. [quote=“wait_really, post:170, topic:101812”]
to keep the people of color you’re so obviously unconcerned about from losing their livelihoods.
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Portland is over 1,800 km from Puerto Neuvo. The restaurants are not in competition with each other. There is no person who was planning on eating dinner in Puerto Nuevo, then decided to eat instead at Kooks food cart. So that is not really the subject of the debate here. It is more complicated than that. Just like actual history is much more complicated and nuanced a subject than blaming one group of people for the all world’s “mass armed conflict, slavery, and extraction”.
That is not an accurate view of history.
