A person doesn't actually have to be gay to be the subject of homophobic discrimination This is long, long established in anti-discrimination law
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lecanardnoir and
I don't have to actually be Jewish for someone firing me because they *think* I'm Jewish or think I have a Jewish ancestor to be illegal Nor does that person have to have an accurate definition of "Jewish" (they could, for instance, think Jewish people are reptile aliens)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lecanardnoir and
Come on think this shit through JFC Does the government have to have a big long list of official, established "true races" to combat racism? Instead of just saying "any discrimination on the *topic* of race is illegal"? How do you make such a list without being racist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lecanardnoir and
I'm surprised to hear you say this, because I thought social justice advocates were indeed adamant about identifying "racism" as something that only applied to certain listed races, not just "discrimination on the topic" which would include racism against whites.
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Replying to @__rowboat__ @arthur_affect and
This assumes that the issue is with some mighty list of races for whom racism is a thing, as opposed to, y'know, racism constituting a specific societal dynamic that doesn't apply so much to white folk.
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Replying to @eggynack @__rowboat__ and
The idea of separate "races" existing in and of themselves as real things (the reification of race) is already conceding the racist POV Race is best understood as an adjective or better yet a verb, not a noun -- it's something done to people ("racialization")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
What people "objectively" are doesn't exist, we're all in a "whole big general mish-mash" (to quote Douglas Adams) that could in theory be defined any which way "Racism" is one of the processes by which we try to rank people from "good" to "bad", "normal" to "abnormal"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
Dividing people into categories along the way expedites this process but isn't necessary to it It's a common thing you hear that in Latin America, race is much more commonly construed as a spectrum and not a set of discrete categories Doesn't make them really less racist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
I.e. instead of asking "Are you white or black?" (the one drop rule) it's assumed most people are somewhere in between, "mestizo", and the big question starts off with just "*How* white are you?" That's still racist, that's still essentially racism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
Racism is the existence of an "ideal", of there being a "normal" and "abnormal", of there being a "spectrum" with a "good" and a "bad" pole at all There doesn't have to exist a single "truly white" person in the world for racism to exist if "How white are you?" is a thing
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So that's how I parse the "Why can't you be racist against white people?" thing It's not about individual *people* being "immune to racism" It's about the idea that racism is always *directional*, not just "different kinds of people don't like each other"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
And the *direction* is always the same in our big overarching culture, "whiter is better and less white is worse" -- that's the actual definition of what "white" even means in this context
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
People argue that this isn't always true, that you can have different racisms in different contexts, that in one particular case one white guy being hassled by a bunch of Black people for the only white guy around is "just as racist" I think, looking at the world, they're wrong
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