My brain is definitely starting to process "yt" as a racial slur, I only ever get called that when people are trying to dismiss me as bad because of my race
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White people thinking that racial slurs work this way is hilarious, I mean I guess it makes sense if you also don't believe systemic oppression actually exists and racism is just defined only as overt racism, aka slurs. Yeah I guess I can understand why you would think this.
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I think that using a pejorative term to dismiss or insult somebody based on their race is a racist thing to do. This has nothing to do with my belief in systemic oppression
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If you understand that we live in a heavily systemically biased system and operate with that knowledge - the idea of being racially biased against white people is kind of hilarious. Like basically a moot point. Prejudice towards white people is not the same as racism against POC.
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It's not moot. It's hurtful. You dismissing my pain as a moot point makes me think whatever system you're operating in is bad.
You can combat systemic oppression and *also* not use racial slurs. It's not that hard.
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Racism under the most accepted academic definition requires underlying systemic bias - without it, that's just prejudice. Old ideas of racism fail to really capture the experience of POC because they miss the key component of systemic oppression.
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It isn't though - without the systemic aspects the weight of the racial slurs is not the same. Only white people think that because they have no experience of living in a country that is systemically biased against them on the scale that POC experience.
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Your definition of racism suits white people - it does not suite the lived experience of POC.