/lit/ - Literature

>>10527494
A black woman making arguments against white people that unknowingly work even better when directed at black people.

>>10527494
You can't be racist to white people so why talk to them about it. They have never and will never experience racism

>>10527592
WAIT UNLESS THEY ARE IRISH LIKE ME. :(

What does it mean to be racist?
Is is just saying ugly things about members of other racial groups or is it having the power to control how other racial groups live their lives?

I confuse

>>10527494
Saltier than French fries

>>10527595
Irish ""people"" are not white

>>10527618
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>10527494
Cultural enrichment

>>10527595
Nope, nobody seems to care about that anymore.

>>10527605
Being white is an act of racism. Or at least that appears to be the logic.

>>10527494
More or less what she's talking about desu

>>10527605

>>10528286
white people out of their way to lynch black people for no other reason but for a demonstration of power.

>>10528221
Unironically this, as a white person you unconsciously perpetuate power structures based entirely on Whiteness in contrast to Color. Since the sole function of these power structures is opression of POC, White identity is, by definition, violence

>>10527605
"they" switched the definition. When we was little kids they all taught us that "racism is when you treat someone different because of their ethnicity and skin color".

Now it's all MARGINALIZED GROUPS ARE ALL VICTIMS, HIERARCHY IS BAD, BASICALLY YOU ARE A RACIST IF YOU ARE WHITE

>>10527605
Racist just means you hate a group of people based on their race.

Don’t let all the drivel coming from cloistered academics change your opinion, all that shit is nothing but toxic.

>>10528312
Pol deliberately misreading quotes to make bad faith arguments

>>10528387
Is it hate or the belief of your own race's superiority over another? Is racism targeted torward a certain race or a self-elevation of their own above all others?
I think this definition has changes over the last 30 years

>>10527618
Whiteness is a state of mind. The Germans are physically the most white people and yet they have never at any point in time acted like a normal, civilized people with any dignity.

>>10528333
In a society where victimhood is institutionally most valued, it is the most underprivileged who are most capable of racism.

>>10527494
the 2010s Identity politics-wave was a product of communicative capitalism a system which by its very nature tends towards hysteria and hyperreality. 'Black People' and 'White People' are abstractions, party to a 'National Conversation' which is nothing but a shadow puppet theatre manned by thinkpiece mongers and occasionally featuring beautiful actors posing with the sexualised woke book object. It's no longer a question of exploiting outrage but of profiting from the spectre of 'outrage'. Progs will flock to buy the book if they think it pisses off /pol/ white dudes, and vice versa. It's no longer a question of 'politics' in the 20th century sense of the word, but of libidinal engagement driven by social media. People of all races are controlled by the same capitalist big brother system. Thinking of everything in terms of individualistic 'empathy' maximises engagement. It's amazing how many people have lost the ability to separate their sense of self from the messages broadcast by the mass media.

>>10528286
This actually makes sense because it can be applied to any conflict between ethnicities.

>>10528286
Cool now do Reginald Denny.

>>10527494
talk about race

>>10528447
>There were no identity politics prior to communicative capitalism

>>10528575
'Identity politics' could not have expressed itself in the way and the intensity it is expressing itself now without post-60s mimetic individualism. The Black Panthers didn't want more black people in Hollywood Blockbusters. Things have gotten stranger and more unreal since then. That also explains why Trump is the first 100% post-literate president. A towering hyper-image.

>>10527494