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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksI'm cackling
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    5 days ago

    ‘White’ isn’t an ethnicity.

    “Black” isn’t a single ethnicity either, so by your logic it’s impossible to be racist to them?

    Making a small assumption about someone’s hot sauce preferences isn’t racist nor prejudiced; that’s just making a generalization.

    Generalising based on someone’s race is racism, surely you know that?

    If an Asian walked into my restaurant and I looked him up and down and said “you should probably have the fried rice”, that would be racist.

    It doesn’t matter whether there’s “injustice” to the statement, or whether he took offence. It’d still be a racist statement.

    Clutch your pearls and continue to desperately vie for offense

    The only one doing that here is you. As I’ve already stated, it’s so mild a form of racism that I doubt anybody cares. But it’s still racism. Racism that you feel very passionately should be protected or encouraged.


  • Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point

    ??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.

    it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK

    Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.

    Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth

    They never went away.

    Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.

    I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.


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    6 days ago

    Do you not notice the “can” in your excerpt?

    And no, no, no. Don’t try to play off your chosen definition of racism as the ‘academic’ one, and imply any other definitions are wrong. That’s not how this works.

    Literally the first line on Wikipedia, your chosen source:

    Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.

    But here’s some other sources:

    The belief that there are different races of people with different characteristics and abilities, and that some races are better than others; a general belief about a whole group of people based only on their race

    • Oxford dictionary

    Harmful or unfair things that people say, do, or think based on the belief that their own race makes them more intelligent, good, moral, etc. than people of other races.

    • Cambridge dictionary

    The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.

    • American Heritage dictionary

    All of these describe this scenario perfectly. I’m not really sure why you’re so ready to defend such a mildly racist situation.



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    6 days ago

    Judging someone’s personality or their likes/dislikes by their ethnicity is definitely racist, I don’t see how you could possibly argue it isn’t?

    Of course it’s a bit racist, but not offensive. Nobody’s going to be losing sleep over someone assuming they can’t handle spice based on their skin colour.