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johnsmith1840 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's a made up deffinition only recently invented. Racism is hating another group of people based on physical or cultural background.

The US is the most powerful country does that mean if I go to india I can't experience racism because technically India is "weaker" ?

Isn't this example literally a group of stronger indians being racist to weaker individuals (job applicants)?

This also implies they are not hiring black, asian, or hispanic people either but because they're a minority that's ok?

Such a bad take.

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lazide 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Also, having lived in Asia before - Americans are totally amateur racists compared to Asians (well, east, southeast, and south anyway. Never lived in Central Asia).

Those aunties and uncles can discriminate you down to damn near the block you came from, even if it was on the other side of the planet, and tell everyone exactly why you’re a bad idea for reasons even you didn’t know about.

Signed, your good little gwailou.

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cess11 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	Podrod 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is an incredibly weird hill to die on.

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DontchaKnowit 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never understood this redefinition of the word... Racism means prejudice based on race. Period. Thats all it means. Redefining the word like you suggested is moving the political goalposts

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cess11 4 days ago | parent [-]

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	▲	hdlothia 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How do the nazis qualify as not prejudiced?
	▲	tux3 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I think you've earned a Godwin point. "The Nazis weren't prejudiced" isn't a great start to an argument, even as a strawman of someone else's position.
	▲	DontchaKnowit 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ism doesnt mean systenic hierarchy. Does gigantism mean a systemic hierarchy of giants? Does botulism mean systemic hierarchy of botulinum. Hobestly what the hell are you talking about?

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baxtr 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So are you saying that if you were to put white people into a country that is systemically ruled by non-whites, they can’t be racist there?

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oblio 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What about these cases happening outside of the US?

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techbro92 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

At certain companies and it’s org structures yeah