• Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    That poor mine worker is still in a better position than an otherwise identical minority would be in the same position.

    A poor mine worker is in a tough place but at least he wasn’t refused that job because the company doesn’t hire non white people.

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      5 months ago

      This exporting US culture shit has got to stop

      We aren’t talking about another mine worker. We are comparing 2 individuals with certain characteristics. You have instead decided to compare a third individual because the initial comparison made the concept break down

      Just because someone is a certain color does not prescribe to them any specific value judgement. As soon as you do that, one of those categories becomes the ongoing scapegoat for everyone’s problems, and it becomes fascist.

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        5 months ago

        Does it ever occur to you that for your arguments to make sense you have to strip it of all context, historical perspecrive or material reality.

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          5 months ago

          This is precisely the issue that I pointed at before, in reality, not everyone of a certain demographic has an advantage over everyone else of a certain demographic. Its a stupid point to attempt to initiate change because its flawed from the start