Some people just think society runs most smoothly/efficiently when people are mostly segregated by race.
I mean, there is some truth to that.
Sharing culture is one of the most beautiful things humanity has to offer each other.
nope, back to twitter with you.
This (today’s) article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite nicely:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder
What are they all racing towards though?
The inevitable heat death of the universe
This is just wrong. Demand deportation for naturalized citizens has split the European nationalists in the EU Parliament.
Is it racism if you have every race equally?
have
U talking about an all races orgy?
whoops accidental mistypeyeeeeeee :)
That’s how you get out of jury duty.
You can hate me now
This was a plot point in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country the factions in each empire who wanted to preserve the Federation-Klingon antagonism collaborated to subvert diplomacy efforts).
What is happening with this image? The quality is low because OP lazily reposted it from some other secondary source, but what’s that yellow rectangle?
that’s the national geographic logo. this post was taken from a nature documentary
you call it laziness where some call it loving wear and tear
It’s censorship. People keep censoring about because they fear getting banned on whatever crappy social media site they originally posted it too.
Why would “race” be a problem, but not “racist”?
I have two half-Thai cousins who live in Florida (natch) and they are flagrant white supremacists and anti-immigration, despite having been born to a Thai immigrant who only recently became a US citizen. For bonus points, one of them happens to look generically Central American and the other looks Japanese, so they got lots of shit growing up for being a variety of different races. You would think that might have made them sensitive to people on the receiving end of racism, but nope - I guess it just taught them how to do it.
When you’re surrounded by people with a certain ideological point of view, its very easy to go-along in order to get-along. Often, being more racist is a mechanism outsiders will use in order to prove they’re part of the clan. When you don’t have your skin color to prove your racist bonafides, you need to be outspoken to let your racist neighbors and coworkers know that you’re on their “team”.
You would think that might have made them sensitive to people on the receiving end of racism
Abuse begets abuse. Treat someone like shit and they’ll learn it is acceptable to treat other people like shit. The only way to curb the cycle of pain is to discourage the behavior. That’s what it means to “Go Woke”, in the end. Standing up to bullying and protecting the vulnerable means interrupting the process of indoctrinating the next generation in the violence of its elders.
look I’m not in favor of discriminating against people based on what race they’re a part of but also I’m a race realist; I think pretending all races are equal and there’s no difference between any two races is ludicrous and against all empirical knowledge we’ve accumulated over decades.
of course some races are better than others and one way or another, one race will have to be, for lack of a better word, “superior”. again this is not a condemnation against any individual who may be a part of one race or another, or even multiple races. but if we consider historical achievements, we would have no choice but to accept that bay to breakers is simply the superior race.
Damn your joke is so good people are actually falling for it lol
to be truthful I made it so deliberately obnoxious that it’s unfair to expect people to suffer through. I knew it would go underwater but that’s the only way it could work at all. no fun if you see it coming.
Not only do I highly doubt the validity of your argument, which an overwhelming majority of scholars would disqualify based on its implicit assumptions (although not the idea that a hierarchy of societies exist at a given point of time), but I also strongly think it has no place on Lemmy. To see it hasn’t been moderated yet is a surprise - an unwelcome one.
lol you got baited so hard.
Read the full comment before popping off hahahaha
I probably wouldn’t read the whole thing either tbh.
Hate to break it to you but you’ve just been baited
Racists think there is some sort of hierarchy among groups/nations, of which of course their own is at the top. Doesn’t matter where the racist are from, Asia, South America, North America, Europe, Africa, …
They always believe they belong to the cream of the crop, and use different specific statistics to prove so. But that is just dumb login. In reality there are only 2 groups: normal people at the top, and racists at the bottom. Even the most useless non-racist adds more to humanity than the best racist.
Racists add so little to society, they have to pretend skin colour is important.
Racism is a cancer on humanity that should be cut out with a huge knife.
The problem is that even without malice in one’s words and action, the recognition of race itself is considered racist.
That’s because the concept of biological races has been thouroughly debunked. I will never understand why Anglophones still insist on using the word “race”.
The whole topic is a minefield.
Is it though? Or is that just what racists who don’t think they’re racist like to tell themselves because they believe in pseudoscience with embedded racism?
My favorite Kurt Vonnegut book is ‘Mother Night.’ At one point a white supremist teams up with ‘The Black Fuhrer of Harlem.’ An FBI man asks the white guy why he’s working with an African-American?
“We both agree that the wrong people are in charge.”
Similar to why the Nazis were willing to work with the Japanese. A common enemy.
“We can be friends until the revolution. After that it gets difficult.”
Enemy of my enemy is my friend or some shit like that.
There are so many terms today that are so over used that they have become meaningless. There are still actual racists. Unfortunately there will always be racists. But you minimize that real problem by shouting “racist” at anyone who disagrees with you
Bingo. The stupid shit I see called racist around here. Yikes. Plenty of real racism to go around y’all!
I’ve not heard it overused. Now, if your definition of racism is “has a deep hatred of some race” then I can see why you’d think that. Most people don’t hate other races, we just do the occasional racism without even thinking about it.
I post this because i thought it was funny. But i agree with what you said.
Who are the real racists?
I can’t think of anyone with a more direct answer than Martin Luther King - “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Anyone who judges someone by the color of their skin is a racist
I bet that’s the only thing you know from that speech, and I bet you’ve never read anything else he wrote.
Here’s some of the other things he said during that speech:
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation,” King said in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. “But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
Sounds like all of that applies to black people in 2025. Almost like the term “racism” is not overused because there’s still a shit ton of it.
Learn about Dr. King next time you put his words in your mouth and twist their meaning.
Is that the only MLK quote you know? It’s a little overused I think, I wish people would use anything else he said.
That’s a great answer. So who are the people who you feel are being called racist today that should not be?
