Black people can't be racist

[BaldingSoHard]

This thread again...

 

[Kuma the Bear]

I am of the opinion that it is possible for Black people to be racist to other minorities but not to white people.

 

[The Melanin Master]

The reaction/response to racism is not racism. This fundamental fact is the reason why black people can NEVER be racist. The position of black people is reactionary, defensive, and responsive. To call a black person a racist is to call the victim of a crime a criminal, the victim of theft a thief, the victim of violence a violent person. My family members who grew up in the deep south around constant anti-black violence and racism are not racist for hating white people. A black South African who wants to exterminate white afrikaners from his land is not a racist. After whites have invaded our ancient civilizations, stole everything from them, marketed it off as theirs, and killed over 150 million of our ancestors during slavery to build their comfort/wealth on trillions of dollars of blood money, whites are in no position to call any black person a racist.

 

[The Fade]

we can but not to our benefit we can be racist on the behalf of other people to ourselves and other people.

The whole point of race was not to categorize people in a neutral way. It was to put people in favorable, unfavorable districts and restrict social mobility. Those dictionary definitions are stupid imo because it implies it’s a side by side thing not a hierarchy one

 

[Regular Developer]

why do you assume that a racist homeless white person would have no way other than violence to do harm to you?

I've just never seen it, that's all. He could, as pointed out by @LordDeathwatch , my thoughts were more just about what I thought the term racist covered.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

I'm a little confused about the socio-economic portion of the definition. I acknowledge we don't really have control over anything so we can't enforce racism systemically. But when people call someone out for being racist, it isn't always some person in power. If a homeless white person calls me the n word, he'd still be racist, even tho he has no way, other than violence, of doing anything to me. That's why I think we can be racist

A white person is still a white person anywhere in the world
A homeless man could call you a whole ass nikka
You could immediately put hands and feet on him
And every color under the sun would come to his defense
No questions asked
Or
You would be exterminated on sight by cops seeing the commotion
Black people have never been racist
Now you could argue bigotry or even xenophobia
But any weirdo dapping this dumb shyt
Or agree to black people can be racist
Is an whole idiot
No in betweens
And playing deaf, dumb and doofy to appear like they are elite

 

[KidJSoul]

Yeah but not in a societally meaningful sense. Like technically if a black person hates white or asian or hispanic people, thinks they are lesser, demons, etc. and tries to attack them, then yes, it is racist.

But on a societal level? Meh not really. Black people don't have the type of power to ruin other people's lives

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Yes we can be racist.

You're white, dude.

 

[Imback]

Yes black ppl can be racist.

There’s just no power to our racism so not societal affects

 

[King Static X]

Yes. Anyone of any ethnicity or race can be racist.

Some of you are confusing systemic racism with racism in general. Black people can't be systemically racist in the United States and other Western countries. However, any individual Black person can be racist.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Linguists will always tell you that language is defined by use.

When you're talking about a popular, common-use term (as opposed to an academic term), you can't just dictate what the word means and insist that everyone agree with you. There is no official Ministry of the English Language to tell us what each word means. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive - when the general public starts using a word in a different way than the dictionary says, it's the dictionary that has to change, not the public. All language is defined by how people use it.

Calling someone "racist" has always meant that they are prejudiced against people of another race. That's how it's used historically, that's how it's used in regular everyday life. Yeah, in college I learned, "Racism is prejudice + power", but come on now. If you have to redefine an everyday word to people every time you use it that way, then you already know it's not the real, common-use definition.

If I go to a church full of illegal immigrants, and members of the church hate on me cause of the color of my skin, they're being racist. It doesn't matter how down illegal immigrants are in American perception, it doesn't matter how little power they have, it's still racism. That's how regular people understand the word when it's used.

I'm a little confused about the socio-economic portion of the definition. I acknowledge we don't really have control over anything so we can't enforce racism systemically. But when people call someone out for being racist, it isn't always some person in power. If a homeless white person calls me the n word, he'd still be racist, even tho he has no way, other than violence, of doing anything to me. That's why I think we can be racist

Yeah.

 

[Big Blue]

If you believe that one or more 'races' are superior/inferior to others, you are a 'racist'.​

Yeah it depends on the context. In regards to the ideology, anyone can be racist. But socioeconomically no, black people can't be racist.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

If you believe that one or more 'races' are superior/inferior to others, you are a 'racist'.​

I think that's a decent definition of racism.


But what if you don't think the other race is inferior, but you just hate all dem motherfukkers. That would be racism too, right?

Some genocides have nothing to do with inferiority, they're more about pure competition.

 

[Supa cat]

If you believe that one or more 'races' are superior/inferior to others, you are a 'racist'.​

They unbanned this old c00n smh

 

[Exlurkernegro]

Black people's racism= "I hate dem cacs"

White people's racism= genocide, slavery, rape, convincing the world that you're superior, and a bunch of other stuff