I'm speaking broadly because I really don't want to start a fight here. It feels like many sides will never ever yield on anything and honestly, I've grown tired of the constant fighting

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[–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What an utterly revolting statement.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    You really need to learn how to be an ally to the underrepresented/oppressed people of this world without caving to eugenicist/white supremacist framing.

    It is the fascists who believe in race science and built-in bigotry; it is our job as materialists to take the world as it is and build from it, not as what we think it is based on rationalized or internalized racism.

    Plus, you'll feel better realizing that you aren't some doomed "white" person forced to hate yourself due to some misplaced blame rather than what is actually at fault: the systems we've had impressed upon us through little fault of our own.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago

    There's no "white species". There is white supremacy, which is a system/institution of power from which a conception of white and non-white racial designations are derived and within which "white" is poised as superior and non-white as inferior. But this is not something innate in anyone, it's a sociological construct with shifting boundaries over time; it has sometimes dramatic material consequences, there's no denying the violence intrinsic to it, but it is something that has to be maintained through upbringing, media, culture, and violent enforcement for it to stay standing over time. Some ethnicities that we take for granted as belonging to "white" today were not always, such as the Irish, illustrating the way that it shifts rather than having been entirely static from beginning to end.

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