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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Yes. I know a common argument from "woke" people is that only the dominant culture is capable of being racist and make the superficial distinction of "prejudiced" to explain away their bigotry, but it's such an intellectually vapid argument that it's barely worth addressing. They're just changing the rules of the game as it suits them
But to clarify the argument, there are different levels of racism. It isn't just the apoplectic maniac shouting epithets at a group of people. Those are the people that are explicitly racist, but there are also people that implicitly accept racist stereotypes, there are cultural institutions that propagate those very stereotypes, there are systems where all of the above cross paths and create racist outcomes.
All of those things are capable of being racist, regardless of a person's skin color, and it's important to recognize distinctions so that people stop lumping all of those things as the same moral offense just because it makes for a more evocative rhetorical appeal
But to clarify the argument, there are different levels of racism. It isn't just the apoplectic maniac shouting epithets at a group of people. Those are the people that are explicitly racist, but there are also people that implicitly accept racist stereotypes, there are cultural institutions that propagate those very stereotypes, there are systems where all of the above cross paths and create racist outcomes.
All of those things are capable of being racist, regardless of a person's skin color, and it's important to recognize distinctions so that people stop lumping all of those things as the same moral offense just because it makes for a more evocative rhetorical appeal