So it seems for most people, the term "racism" does not refer to privilege + power; e.g., those not in power can still be racist.
I think the privilege+power people should use a different word from racism so this is less confusing.
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this feels like a really pure example of a "conflict theory vs. mistake theory" thing to me tbh. you're trying to analyze an almost purely conflict theory dynamic as if it were mistake theory
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Yeah, i want to start from mistake theory and if their motivation is political then I want them to say that directly
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that's not how political motivations work 😅
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conflict vs. mistake feels like itself a way of re-framing, "is the world basically a rational place" (subject to mistakes that can be made) or "basically an emotive/storytelling stage" (subject to conflict between good and evil)
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the answer seems clearly "yes", although that analytic framework does shed some light on why people disagree as they do