I'd argue that most racists aren't actually racist, they're culture-ist, it's just that race happens to correlate with culture a lot and gets used as a proxy.
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I feel like people are interpreting this tweet as saying people are doing something 'less bad' than racism. To be clear, viewing this through a 'culturist' lens doesn't seem any less bad to me.
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Culture is a set of rules and thus negotiable, race is understood as being intrinsic
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It'll reliably seem less bad to others due to the overwhelming negative associations with 'racist' and the utter lack of same with 'culturist.' So, there's a sense in which promoting the term 'culturist' minimizes the apparent badness racism. However, I do agree with you.
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If we don't treat culture as fair game for disapproval, we can't improve culture. It's acceptable to hate cultures.
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I think one can criticize aspects of a culture without criticizing the people who were brought up in the culture. Criticizing the aesthetic aspects of a culture is silly and potentially hateful, but the values of a culture should be open to (constructive & thoughtful) critiques.
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Deeming one culture better than another is as bad a mistake as deeming one race better than another?
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Nah. They project a cultural stigma onto them because they’re a different race
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That's an interesting reaction. I think people get emotionally attached to a word and equate it to a feeling. So racist = bad. So then if it's NOT racist then it's not bad. Lost is the possibility that different things can have the same qualities.
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