The banality of evil.
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Enjoy the land. Easy to forget what you’re benefiting from when you point at us.
Are you aware that the person to whom you replied is an African-American woman? Just trying to gauge the level of clueless blind privilege at work here.
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What does genocidal treatment of Native American people have to do with the fact that you keep turning away from, that we live in a white supremacist patriarchy?
(Not what you think it does, I’m sure . . . )
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Do you not feel you’ve benefitted from that genocide?
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Now who’s still finding a way to ignore the fact that we live in a white supremacist patriarchy (that continues to bestow unearned privileges upon white men)?
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I’ve acknowledged many times that white men benefit from this system, but you have not acknowledged that you do.
That’s because it’s bloody obvious that I do.
But white men do more.
What exactly is your point?
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The people here all support dismantling the structures and harm of colonialism. I do volunteer work and support Native causes in my home state.
This isn’t the supporting argument you think it is.
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If you could go back in time and change the way things were handled then, would you? If you would make it so they were treated as equals at this point, would you?
But you stop short of acknowledging that they benefit from it disproportionately compared to, say, a woman whose ancestors likely immigrated to North America in a less than voluntary manner.
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I absolute do benefit disproportionately.
I do see your point.
But retaliatory racism, retaliatory sexism, these things do not require one to expand ones’ mind outside culturally conditioned systems of racism and sexism, so they are emotionally and intellectually easier for the vast majority of people living in racist and sexist milieux. Abandoning your childhood programming of categories is hard; by comparison, reassigning value scores among existing categories is relatively easy.
Thus, we swing on a pendulum driven by pain and empathy.
Well, what do we think about racial profiling? Is it that different to connect a certain race to a certain crime? I think it’s racist.
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Yes and yes, of course.
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Then, using your preferred definition from your shoddy dictionary game in the other thread, isn’t it appropriate to discriminate (in the beneficial sense of the term, because The Patriarchy hurts us all) when it comes to assigning responsibility for redress of the effects of The Patriarchy in America to those who’ve unfairly benefited from its institutional racism and sexism the most and who have the most power to change things as a result of their privilege?
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I dunno about “we”. Here’s what I think.
Racial profiling is obviously racist, but the main pragmatic purpose it serves is to help smugglers.
Your kingpins just recruit some dumb kid with the right racial profile to get stopped, give him a half pound of coke and a flash car, and while he’s getting stopped or shot or whatever so that the cops make their performance metric, you send a mid-grade station wagon piloted by a harried middle aged dad with two annoying children up the same interstate loaded with a half ton.
Racial profiling is pretty close to a mutual business arrangement between law enforcement and criminals. Doesn’t matter what race or other category is involved as long as both sides are agreed on whatever it is.
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