Is anybody else sick of this double standard about racism?

[Juxtapose]

Here is the actual definition of racism:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

"a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"

[bolverk]

No matter what the race grifter Robin Di Angelo thinks Racism is a revolving door – that is anyone can be a victim of racism, if she doesn’t think that then she should travel outside of the continental US, going through the Middle East to the Far East she WILL run into Racism it is the condition of human beings to distrust/hate others who are ‘different’. if you dig long enough and deep enough into Robin Di Angelo’s background you’ll find her own particular brand of Racism. I have travelled the world through my work for the last 40 odd years and I've run into Racism EVERYWHERE it is endemic, and if Robin Di Angelo thinks that white people cannot be victims of Racism then she has not turned over enough rocks, or she is so biased and blinkered in her opinions that she would not know the truth if it bit her in the arse!

[DrPepper12]

Not even gonna watch. I'm just going to propose a question. How does American govt help end the institutional and structural barriers that are rooted in racism. Reparations are out of the question and affirmative action or preferential quotas are simply reverse racism. What's in the policy toolbox that's actually workable?

[DrPepper12]

I'll do that later. The question still stands.

[Juxtapose]

Okay fine I'll bite.

There are no obstacles towards blacks currently. They can do everything white people can do and there's nothing the government is doing to stop them. They are free to go make something of themselves.

[Juxtapose]

Who reported my first reply? Did you do that? Be honest.

[Juxtapose]

I was just censored here and if nobody tells me who did it? I'm deleting this whole post by DrPepper.

[Juxtapose]

Actually no I won't.. but I am annoyed! Censors! Such vileness is the downfall of the open marketplace of ideas but don't worry mods you generally are better than let's say Facebook. Reddit sucks, the population censors ITSELF with downvotes. Outrageous!

Hopefully the internet will become like telecommunication. Your phone calls aren't censored right? Just a thought 💭

[DrPepper12]

I can't believe you're actually saying that structural and institutional racism is not baked into the system. You're either disingenuous or willfully blind or both.

[DrPepper12]

Not me! I don't believe in censorship of any kind. But you shouldn't confuse censorship with snowflakes who can't have a dialogue. Censorship is government-sponsored, when on a hosting platform it's simply part of the terms of service and when it's a dialogue between two people it just means that the one who reported it is a snowflake who is bereft of ideas or a dick.

[Juxtapose]

The whole internet censorship thing is a disgrace and an insult to the open marketplace of ideas. I can't wait for it to be fixed.

Yeah, I am saying that structural and institutional racism is not baked into the system. You are not a victim just because you are black, you can make it just as well as a white person.

[gorydetails]

Liberal white women are devils.

I'll just leave this here

[Juxtapose]

That checks out! Black people are the most prejudiced group and it really shows. It's not because of biology but because of culture.

[gorydetails]

And constant propaganda from the left.

[genericname85]

you know it's a good graph when they don't explain what the nubers on an axis even means. i see the numbers go from 60 to 90. 60 to 90 what? apples? ducks? every elementary school teacher preaches about never forgetting to associate the numbers with something. yet people at the supposed "pinacle of science" do that shit still.

[gorydetails]

@genericname85 It says at the top. How favorable each race rates their own and other races.

[genericname85]

so 0 being "not favorable" and 100 being "totally favorable"?

[gorydetails]

@genericname85 exactly.

[OddBeMe]

Sure…the idea of “just as racist” is dumb. Like comparing hate towards people.

Whats the thing tho…US history. And the fact we never reconciled US slavery.

[Juxtapose]

Doesn't excuse racism in either direction or a weird double standard though right?

And slavery is over with.

[OddBeMe]

Of course not but you can’t put all racism into one box. Thats stupid. Which is why the “n word” isn’t spelled out and “cracker” doesn’t fucking matter if it’s spelled out.

[Juxtapose]

Bigotry against white people is just as repulsive as bigotry against black people. Equal is equal.

[OddBeMe]

It’s not equal and it’s racist to say it is.

[Juxtapose]

You're treating people people differently based on race and say I'M racist?

[OddBeMe]

I’m treating people differently based on context. If you can’t see that you’re a fckin idiot.

You crazily want some communist version of anti-racism. That would be a shit 1984 world of going to hate speech jail for monkey sounds. That bad but not jailable.

[Juxtapose]

You were literally treating people differently because of what they look like on the outside instead of what is on the inside.

.. no, I don't. I am a free speech advocate and want people to be able to say racist things freely as long as it is not incitement under USA law.

I am telling you that what you are doing is racism. You are making value judgments based on the color of somebody's skin.

[Juxtapose]

You know what it looks like to not be racists? Treating people equally.

[OddBeMe]

No, because people aren’t perfect. We are all racist, sexist and judgmental. Thus we can’t just say “don’t be racist”. That’s stupid beyond belief.

[Juxtapose]

That is false, I am not racist or sexist. I am judgmental but we should be judgmental.

I don't view for example native Americans as any different than Mexicans besides some arbitrary phenotypes that have some minor environmental adaptations. That's really all race encompasses, some minor adaptations that don't affect intelligence or behavior at all. Our light skin is an adaptation, black people's darker skin is an adaptation.. that's it. It's not like if we have souls mine is bright and pure and black people's are dark and evil. Racism is preposterous.

[Juxtapose]

And I don't hate women, I was raised mostly by them. The only thing they really lack is upper body strength but there are exceptions, that's really the only thing I can say men have over women definitively.

Sexism is also an utter waste of time for the feeble-minded.

You don't believe in that tribalist tripe do you?

[Juxtapose]

*an utter waste of time, it is for the feeble-minded

[OddBeMe]

Bullshit. You cannot be completely “un-racist”, “un-sexist” etc…

That’s why we need affirmative action to combat our natural tribal nature.

[Juxtapose]

It's a really sick and twisted idea to suggest that everybody has some level of racism or sexism inside of them. It's like some stupid idea of original sin.

No, I don't have racist or sexist thoughts. If you have those you should check your head out. I grew up around women and besides them having less body strength they are no lesser than I am.

I saw "other raced" kids in my rich neighborhood growing up and they acted like everybody else.

There's literally nothing in my head to make me think that women or whatever other "race" (which isn't even a scientific concept to begin with, it's a collection of arbitrary phenotypes) means shit to me. I'm even bisexual so women hold less of a distinction to me vs how they do with straight dudes.

[Juxtapose]

"Mean shit" as in stand out compared to men in a negative way.

[Juxtapose]

Maybe it's because of autistic because I've been told I don't think like other people in pretty significant ways. If normal people have these weird, discriminatory thoughts they keep on the down low? That would explain a lot of stupidity.

[Juxtapose]

God I can't get over how stupid that is. Seriously, get your head checked out man. You're better than that.

[OddBeMe]

You think humans can be perfect? 100% not racist? Thats unnatural

[Juxtapose]

It really doesn't take perfection to not be a racist or a sexist. You know what it takes? Not being a bad person.

I know this may sound arrogant and a seriously maybe just due to me being autistic but it's really hard for me to imagine being able to be dumb enough to be sexist or racist. It's sincerely hard for me to even force those thoughts in my head. They're so.. powerfully stupid.

[Juxtapose]

*arrogant and seriously may be just due

[OddBeMe]

It actually does. I’m just talking simple math. Humans can’t do anything 100% right. Thus we will get 1% wrong. At least.

Then I move over to genetics and read about our tribal nature of our ancestors. But sure, it’s not hard to be 100% “not racist”

This is what the banality of evil means. Not that your are evil. But the evil is banal. You do think about the small things being racist but they add up.

[Juxtapose]

You can't point to a single thing I do that is racist or sexist. Because I don't do those things. I don't think those things. It's ridiculous.

[OddBeMe]

Again.. you’re missing the math. This worries me how stupid you’re being.

You can’t be 100% not racist. It’s general impossibility

[Juxtapose]

It is possible and you don't know me. Seems like you have some problems with racism and sexism if you really think that and you are projecting that on to me.

[Juxtapose]

That's like saying: "nobody has a 0% desire to rape because I have a small desire to rape."

You're a sick fuck if you do, I don't have those desires either.

[OddBeMe]

Read Freud. Having a desire and acting on it ain’t the same. But what is 1% desire to rape? I grab my wife’s boob while she’s sleeping, she tells me to fuck off. Am I a sick fuck for that?

[Juxtapose]

That's not rape, at all. Your wife expects to be touched unless the relationship is.. weird.

I don't have even a small desire to rape.

[OddBeMe]

Then what’s 1% rape?

[Juxtapose]

A hundredth of wanting full rape.

[AngryCarl]

Video was TL;DR. Of course I'm sickened by double standards as a matter of principle.

[Juxtapose]

It's slightly longer than a minute homie 😅

[Juxtapose]

I don't ever want to hear an older person complain about younger people's attention span ever again.

[handsomelad70]

I'm sick of ALL forms of racial stupidity.