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Sexism and Racism.

Shamu
over 7 years

Sexism and racism is inherently linked to power, in such a way that women can't (really) be sexist towards men, and black people can't (really) be racist towards white people.

Yes there are exceptions, I don't want someone to bring up some 3,000 year old civilization that was dominated by black people where they had more privilege.

Racism and sexism are inherently a privilege issue, you can bring up all the cases you want of hate crimes against men from extremists or hate crimes against white people from black people - but it's not racism.

It's discrimination.

If you want to make a case against this then you can prove that women have more privilege than men, or that black people have more privilege than white people.

Maybe it's sad to say that this is primarily the american scope that I'm speaking of, I'm an american so I'm more in tune with american politics and the racial scope in this area.

Discuss.

projectmatt
over 7 years
This thread will go badly, but before it does, I'll say what I just spent 20 minutes in a game debating about, and that Shamu summed up well:

The power dynamic is extremely important to consider when we talk about racism/sexism in our society. If we study the society around us, it's really easy to see and understand that certain groups hold far more privilege/more power than others.

If we can literally just agree that certain groups hold more power, it's a lot easier to go from there to discuss why feminism/black lives matter/all that stuff is important and needed, but a lot of people get stuck on accepting that certain people hold more power.
Antidote
over 7 years
f.uck whitey
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im scared
Antidote
over 7 years
This will be a calm and rational discussion amongst fellow intellectuals.