Honestly, that’s what it looks like to me. I’m not joking when I say it reminds me of when you have a dog with fear aggression.
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And when the white dude shows up, see how quickly she tries to get him in trouble for calmly not really reacting to her horrible behavior. “He was being rude! And cussing me out!” Wow wow wow.
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There’s an award for it too!
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He shows himself wearing a UPS branded uniform in the video. Big logo on his jacket. Comeon.
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Of course; because it was never about the woman in question feeling “nervous” or “unsafe.”
It was about putting a Black man ‘in his place’ because he dared to be in her neighborhood, regardless that he had a valid reason…
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Try these for some updated layman’s definitions:
Prejudice. A bias for or against a group of people based upon cultural criteria. May or may not be justified on a stochastic basis (for example, it is not unreasonable for an American Black person to be prejudiced against cops).
Racism. The systematic privileging of one socially-defined racial group over another.
In modern America, it is possible to be prejudiced against white people. It is not possible to be racist against them.
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Expanding on a theme:
Racism = prejudice + power, and the most important part of that equation is the power.
Fighting racism is not about purging yourself of all unjustified prejudice. That’s useful too, but it’s not the main game.
Fighting racism is about actively dismantling your own privilege.
Surrendering allegiance to white supremacy means working to bring about a world in which you are just as susceptible as a Black person to being shot by the cops, a world in which the schools your kids go to are no better than those available to any other group, a world in which your own safety and comfort are inextricably linked to the well-being of Black people. If you want a decent society for yourself, it must be a decent society for all.
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Nailed it;
Black folks and other POC are not the dominant in-group who constructed an entire society meant to benefit them above all others… so while any of us could be just as hateful and bigoted as the KKK, none of us have the same systemic power structure supporting us.
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Maybe try this one then. Based on your posts, I am going to guess you to be a SWM, as am I. It’s a tough concept when all we have known is privilege, but with some effort even this can be overcome.
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Prejudice based on race is racism. Prejudice based on sex is sexism. Let’s try ageism, which is mentioned in that article. Go ahead, try telling me that old people are not the ones in power.
Remove the power and all you end is institutionalized racism. Racism would still exist because what the prejudice is based on matters.
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Please do not deign to condescend to me about the difference between individual acts of prejudice bigotry and racism and systemic racism.
I have been dealing with both firsthand my whole life, and I’ve been fighting against both for the entirety of my adulthood.
Also please check that needlessly combative tone you’re using; it’s not lending your argument any validity.
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Old people are not the ones in power. Most old people are retired and living on limited income with less than optimal health in a society that devalues old people.
Also transphobia is about all gender identities.
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OH! I didn’t realize you knew all things and all possibilities, in all kinds of realities! /s
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Was he driving a dark brown truck? Did he have a brown uniform? Was his hat Brown? I guess delivery Donna thought his brown skin was just too much.
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Can we not get bogged down in semantics? Like many other words (“acceleration”, for example), the word “racism” has both a common and a technical definition:
- In common parlance [ETA: among white people anyway; thanks to @anon15383236 for helping me see my own biases], it’s typically a mere synonym for “racial prejudice”.
- Its technical, sociological sense is that given by @Wanderfound and @Melizmatic above: racial prejudice that serves to shore up the dominance of a particular group.
I think the second definition is more useful, as there’s no other conveniently brief way of referring to the phenomenon, and I hope it becomes the common definition too. Plus it breaks the false equivalence between prejudice directed upwards and that directed down.
But whatever one calls it, it is a very real thing, attested as long ago as ancient Sparta.
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But that would be the perfect disguise if he weren’t actually a UPS employee, don’tcha know!
/s
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I’m sure just a good woman without a racist bone in her body, just trying to #MAGA. Of course, I’m sure she has a near fatal amount of brain worms…
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In common white parlance, seems to me.
I can’t recall a person who’s not white complaining about “racism” against whites. Like, ever.
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