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Why are there so many people supporting racism on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Social_Discussion@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With my recent post I was trying to ask if there are other people like me who also feel that people seem to focus more and more on skin color and ethnicity in an unhealthy and obsessive way and I thought I'd find some people agreeing with me who also feel uncomfortable and stressed out by this.

But instead the overwhelming response was people trying to justify racism instead of agreeing that it's a bad thing and needs to end. As if they were trying to use every possible argument to bash on me and justify racism.

Why could it be the case that so many people here on Lemmy support racism? In my opinion there is no reason to discriminate someone based on their looks PERIOD!

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which "white people" are you talking about?

Irish? Scottish? Italians? How about Sicilian? Are Roma white to you? Greek?

See, that's the problem with pre-judging someone just on immutable characteristics that you believe mean a certain thing.

Throughout time groups of people have been biased against other groups, for all sorts of reasons, largely just "out group".

Assuming that only goes one way, and assuming based on skin color alone (again, exactly which color, is there a Pantone code for "white people"?) that everyone in that assumed group have the same experience is just nonsense. Or bias, prejudice, bigotry. Pick whichever you like.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 4 days ago

its them fuckers from ~~iowa~~ you have to watch out for

e. i meant ohio. they all look the same to me