01-08-2017, 02:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2017, 07:08 AM by FireIceTalon.)
No, WHITE people can indeed be racist - because they occupy empowered and privileged positions in society.
Black people by and large do NOT occupy a empowered or privileged position in society - and therefore they cannot be racist. Prejudice, yea. Racist? Nope.
The problem with sticking strictly to a dictionary definition of racism is that it doesn't consider historical or social context, which is absolutely necessary in determining what racism is and how it operates.
So I reiterate once again, reverse racism is a myth - a myth created by WHITE people in order to defend or justify their privileged position in society and use it as a weapon whenever their power and privilege is questioned or challenged. To deny that is, in ITSELF, inherently racist.
They were in a position of physical power, in that they outnumbered him, he was disabled, etc. It still has nothing to do with racism. Their power over him doesn't change the fact that whites enjoy systemic advantages over blacks. They were prejudice towards him, and whites in general. But again, it is different from racism.
Black people by and large do NOT occupy a empowered or privileged position in society - and therefore they cannot be racist. Prejudice, yea. Racist? Nope.
The problem with sticking strictly to a dictionary definition of racism is that it doesn't consider historical or social context, which is absolutely necessary in determining what racism is and how it operates.
So I reiterate once again, reverse racism is a myth - a myth created by WHITE people in order to defend or justify their privileged position in society and use it as a weapon whenever their power and privilege is questioned or challenged. To deny that is, in ITSELF, inherently racist.
Quote:In the Chicago case, the four black people were in a position of power over their captive. They abused him because he was white, and they had grievances against white people, in particular grievances against Mr. Trump.
They were in a position of physical power, in that they outnumbered him, he was disabled, etc. It still has nothing to do with racism. Their power over him doesn't change the fact that whites enjoy systemic advantages over blacks. They were prejudice towards him, and whites in general. But again, it is different from racism.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)