• BonerMan
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    30 days ago

    You can be racist against the citizens of a country. The “race” (what a shit word for humans) isn’t of matter to be racist.

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      29 days ago

      Technically since racism is prejudice + power, we’d have to know they belong to whatever ethnic group holds power to know it’s racist, it might be prejudice instead. The race actually does matter according to the sociological definition, that’s why in the US they say only white people can be racist, in China it’d be Han Chinese, etc.

      Edit: Seriously, I’m not making it up, if you disagree fine, but you disagree with sociologists not me (who is not a sociologist, but merely took two classes on it in my youth.)

      Here see for yourself:

      https://sociologydictionary.org/racism/

      (noun) Any attitude, belief, or behavior used to explain and justify prejudice and discrimination against racial or ethnic minorities, on the basis of perceived inferiority.

      By definition, any attitude, belief, or behavior used to explain and justify prejudice on a racial or ethnic majority is not included.

      I literally got suspended for saying the stuff you guys are, good thing we aren’t in American High School or College right now.

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        29 days ago

        Absolutely fucking not. You can be completely powerless and still racist.

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          29 days ago

          Unfortunately according to sociologists that is not true, those people would be “prejudice” but not “racist” with the only difference being “power.”

          I was suspended for arguing against it, they seem dead set on this semantic argument.

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            29 days ago

            “They” want a free pass to be racist to others and a shield from it themselves. “They” are hypocrites.

            The idiots who think equality means “fuck the dealer” should stick to playing spades.

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              29 days ago

              …who’s “they?” Sociologists aren’t a homogenous group, some are racial or ethnic minorities, some are racial or ethnic majorities. Both my teachers were white men.

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          28 days ago

          Right, but if you’ll continue reading, it’s how schools teach it in sociology class. I didn’t make the rubric, I just got suspended for questioning it.

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            28 days ago

            But this isn’t a sociology class? It’s not even a sociology forum. Words can have different meanings and connotations in different contexts. The academic definition of a word does not automatically trump the colloquial definition, especially not in non-academic circumstances.

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              28 days ago

              Sociology:

              The study of human social behavior

              Well, the sociologists have decided they’re relevant to all human interaction, so there’s that.

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              Wait, by “defending it” do you mean “defending my assertion that this is what they’re teaching kids in school?” If yes; because that’s true. If by “defending it” you mean “agreeing with the sociologists,” well, “I’m not, I haven’t done that one time, as I’ve repeatedly said.”

              What exactly are you arguing with me about, the fact that sociologists say it, or your incorrect perception that I agree with the people I keep saying I disagree with?

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        29 days ago

        Racism can be against any group of people that are from a certain area or ethnic group power has 0 meaning for that.

        And I know that many people in the US have some mental problems regarding political words and meanings.

        Everone can be racists, Latinos and Black people are racists against each other in USA they also tend to be racist against Jewish people.

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            See, there is the difference, USA is a immigration country with no coherent similarities between everyone. Especially because I spoke about two specific group’s and the fact that US public language uses words that had meaning but the average speaker ignores it and uses it as dog whistle without actually meaning anything.

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          Hey don’t fight me, fight both my old sociology teachers and the sociologists who made that the definition.

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        Oh no, sociologists! Good thing they’re a hivemind, and all have the same opinion on definitions.

        If your argument is that you’re using the wrong word which ultimately means the same thing, then it’s not much of an argument. It’s pretty clear you’re trying to downplay racism to be more acceptable

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          Well, every one I’ve talked to agreed with all the other ones on this matter, so again I say take it up with them, not the guy who disagrees with it who told you what their consensus on the matter is. Shoot the messenger much?

          My argument is actually that sociology classes teach it, call your local school board and complain, I’m not in the education system, I can do exactly fuck all about it, like I said when I tried to argue I got suspended (and on top of that got my 360 taken away for a month for being suspended no less!) Trust me I’m on your side, your beef is with academia who are the people pushing the narrative. What, do you think I registered sociologydefinitions.zip or whatever that site was? Really?

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              It’s the sociology department of academia pushing it, not me. I merely said “well in school they taught me this” (and “I got in trouble for fighting it” no less) and now we’re here, calm down. If anything you should be outraged this is what they’re teaching in sociology classes in America, not mad that I told you this is what they’re teaching in sociology classes in America.

              In fact, find me one time in this thread I “defended” their claims. I believe you’ll find that not one time did that occur, I repeatedly said shit like “hey I agree, but sociology teachers would be mad at both of us, because like I say they kicked me out for sharing your opinion.” Quite clearly I hold the same opinion as you, so I guess we’re both defending racism then.

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                  28 days ago

                  My comment or the concept of racism as seen by sociology? Because those are different answer.

                  Edit: Here, you still think I made this shit up? Have another sociologist source that this is indeed what they claim.

                  https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/11-3-prejudice-discrimination-and-racism

                  Prejudice refers to the beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group.

                  Racism is a stronger type of prejudice and discrimination used to justify inequalities against individuals by maintaining that one racial category is somehow superior or inferior to others; it is a set of practices used by a racial dominant group to maximize advantages for itself by disadvantaging racial minority groups.

                  Like it or not this is what they teach. And no, it’s not racist for me to tell you that they teach this in schools. Ffs.