this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This only goes to prove that current prevailing attitudes from all races towards the other races are inherently flawed. There's no excuse for any of it; racism does real damage to real people, and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, asian, hispanic or anything else.

There is no room, no defense, no rational reason at all for racism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In addition to the racism, I'm also seeing a worrying trend of "reality bending" (idk the specific term). I've heard about it before, and its basically trying to manifest your dreams through affirmations and wishing really hard. I this is especially worrying because it's a sort of obsessive escapism, and very dangerous because it prevents you from engaging in reality for the hope that you will manifest into the "perfect" one. In this case, you basically sidestep the gruesome realities of racism and its effects through a vaporware, ephemeral, "poppy" aesthetic. Race becomes a sort of commodity, an aesthetic to be used and discarded once its done, and not a historical system of oppression to be dismantled. We need to be careful of those who commoditize oppresion....