With my recent post I was trying to ask if there are other people like me who also feel that people seem to focus more and more on skin color and ethnicity in an unhealthy and obsessive way and I thought I’d find some people agreeing with me who also feel uncomfortable and stressed out by this.

But instead the overwhelming response was people trying to justify racism instead of agreeing that it’s a bad thing and needs to end. As if they were trying to use every possible argument to bash on me and justify racism.

Why could it be the case that so many people here on Lemmy support racism? In my opinion there is no reason to discriminate someone based on their looks PERIOD!

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    231·
    6 days ago

    I’m pretty sure that 100% of the people here and in the earlier thread agree that people are intrinsically equal, regardless of their skin color. It sounds like you think that because of this, anyone who supports any situation where people are treated differently based on ethnicity, skin color, etc is racist.

    Let me try a metaphor.

    Let’s say there was a group of people with all different skin tones. They are all going to be given money, but because the people running the organization giving out the money are racist, they give much more to people with light skin, and much less to people with dark skin. The people running the organization are replaced with people who are not racist, but it takes generations. The people with less money had to spend it all on food and shelter, and their descendants have none of it. The people who got more money spent some on food and shelter and had lots left over, which they put in a bank and got a lot of interest from it. It was given to their children, and their children’s children, and now their descendants have even more money.

    It was definitely racist to originally give more money to the lighter skinned people.

    Would it be racist to now give more money to the darker skinned people?

    • rbn@sopuli.xyz
      54·
      6 days ago

      Would it be racist to now give more money to the darker skinned people?

      From my perspective, yes.

      The redistribution of the generational wealth should be adressed as well by politics but that should be independent of the racism discussion. Significantly unequal distribution of money due to inheritance is more and more dividing society. But I don’t care if the rich people have a lighter or darker tan.

      If you target inequality with inequality in the opposite direction, you’re just feeding rightwing narratives IMO.