b9AcE #NoEdits on Nostr: "If we just get rid of racism almost all the world's problems are fixed. I am an ...
"If we just get rid of racism almost all the world's problems are fixed. I am an anti-racist regarding everyone. I am only racist against those X because they're all racist against us Y so I won't respect anyone X",
was a statement someone just made to me.
That's not how it works.
There is no "counter-racism".
There is just anti-racism and racism.
If you're judging an entire group of millions of people to all "be racists" on foundation of having met almost certainly way fewer than 1% of them, instead of every person's varying life experiences, etc,
that's racism and you're the problem.
Those people you deem to be of group X may have been not racist at all, until they met you and that experience of your "counter-racism" made them now be racist against everyone deemed to be of group Y.
That "counter-racism" is just racism, feeding more racism.
It's especially disheartening when, as now, expressed by first generation immigrants against fellow first or second generation immigrants.
was a statement someone just made to me.
That's not how it works.
There is no "counter-racism".
There is just anti-racism and racism.
If you're judging an entire group of millions of people to all "be racists" on foundation of having met almost certainly way fewer than 1% of them, instead of every person's varying life experiences, etc,
that's racism and you're the problem.
Those people you deem to be of group X may have been not racist at all, until they met you and that experience of your "counter-racism" made them now be racist against everyone deemed to be of group Y.
That "counter-racism" is just racism, feeding more racism.
It's especially disheartening when, as now, expressed by first generation immigrants against fellow first or second generation immigrants.