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[-] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

By arguing black people can be racist against non-whites you've already admitted racism exists not merely as a system of oppression, but as prejudice too.

So yes, black people can be racist against white people, just not in the comically evil ways that white conservatives say they can.

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

By arguing black people can be racist against non-whites you've already admitted racism exists not merely as a system of oppression, but as prejudice too.

No, that doesn't follow. Oppressed people absolutely can be active and even willing participants in the systemic oppression of their own people.

[-] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on whether you're saying that every act of prejudice is comparable to the historic weight of hundreds of years of racism as a system. A slave being prejudiced against the slaveowner is not an act of racism. It holds no difference to a trans person being prejudiced against a terf.

These acts of prejudice shouldn't be elevated to acts of hate. They're the oppressed lashing out at their oppressor.

[-] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm obviously not saying prejudice is on the same level as hundreds of years of oppression. I don't know how you could even extrapolate that from my comment.

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