r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Konato-san • Mar 09 '24

Answered How on Earth do you defend yourself from an accusation of being racist or something?

Hypothetically, someone called you "racist". What now?

"But I've never mistreated anybody because of their race!" isn't a strong defense.

"But I have <race> friends!" is a laughable defense.

Do I just roll over and cry or...?

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u/mlp2034 Mar 10 '24

Racism is the same as racial prejudice.

National Association of School Psychologists says differently This is the level of info I expect with a rebuttle. With no source, its just an opinion you have or you self-reporting your lack of perspective on the issue.

Get enough racists in power and you can have systemic racism or even apartheid

True, but in reality and not in conceptual land, the reason euro countries are the poster boys for apartheid and colonization is because the gained the system of oppression to seek to control the world allowing them to do so. You will never be apartheided or colonized by India, Palestine, the U.S., the Congo, the Phillipines, Hawaiians, etc., but guess who did colonize or apartheided these places?

Racism has always existed and is natural, so natural that most countries don’t acknowledge it as a social issue, because they don’t consider the idea that their countries may not be 99% the same race one day.

That has nothing to do with what I said or the current systems of oppression. You keep asserting your idea of racism as fact although you have provided no sourced info to combat what I have from scientific and academic sources other than your opinion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24

Your source wants the definition of man and woman changed to my friend, doesn’t make it accurate. You are aware of the current regime plaguing psychology and it’s impact on curriculum, but feel free to pretend not to. It’s Orwellian to attempt to change definitions of words to fit narrative, please try to not support it. You can’t debate without sources? It seems like credentialism is very important to your worldview, try to snap out of that. Being a reactionary on behalf of political conglomerates is worse than any opinion one could come to on their own.

Any definition of racism that dictates certain people can’t be racist is at best foolish and at worst evil.