Yep
White folk love being like "I'm not a bad person, so I can't be racist, here's why I support locking up immigrants at the border"
Then when you call them out for supporting racist policies, they get all :kitty-cri-screm:
I've noticed many Westerners' understanding of what is racism starts and ends at just racial slurs
"I'm not racist against Chinese people. I just hate their government! How could I be racist if I never called them ch*nks or g**ks?"
when he connects too much to 'authoritarianism' or 'totalitarianism', with the occasional lib phrase. This could be to make it more palatable, but for me its a deduction.
sadly, but his videos are good and he doesn't devote all his time to hating on tankies and communists, so im chill with him.
I thought this was blatantly obvious and got this as the actual lesson behind why racism is wrong when I was a five year old in kindergarten.
Do people really not know this?
Do people really not know this?
The average American certainly doesn't :sadness-abysmal:
Hierarchy. The last tweet reads “the core evil behind all the bad isms is hierarchy”
I agree that there are better ways to describe the "core evil" of bigoted thought processes, but the core concept is still intact in his last tweet imo. Especially to the largely :LIB: audience he has on Twitter
We do indeed. He should have written that because it fits better, but hey :shrug-outta-hecks:
In all honesty it wasn't until getting into public health in college and into the healthcare realm with my job that structural racism really clicked for me and I went "holy shit this is all so fucked" from there I then dove into leftism and that helped me parce into a lot more (even though I still got lots to learn). It's this kind of learning that is what makes the right so fucking scared of CRT (not the memed kind but actually parcing apart outcomes and interactions with a racial lens to realize how that creates unjust laws and systems).
exactly what radicalized me. i took a medical sociology course and realized that amerika was incredibly fucked (i kind of had an idea before then and was a bernie bro in high school, but this led me down the path of learning abt the systemic ways in which the west is a horrific place). stopped wanting to be a doctor after that class lol
Yeah for me it was doing nursing externship work and regular work, especially in elder care and community hospitals. So much of what goes on could be easily fixed with just basic internal system reforms let alone national healthcare (people suffering from uncontrolled diabetes due to not being able to afford insulin, people being unable to afford heart medications, affording physical therapy, the list goes on and is a murder of a thousand cuts by a system that has refined itself into the perfect method of extracting money from corpses).
What do you mean? People end up like that because of shitty living conditions, not always because they choose to.
