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Racist, or naw?

Father Heathen

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ImmortalFlame

Woke gremlin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-back-to-your-country/?utm_term=.b28731a7c428

An elderly Hispanic man was attacked with a brick and told to go back to mexico. Clearly a racist hate crime, correct?
Except that the perpetrator was a back woman; someone that many would claim can't be racist. How would they characterize this occurrence, especially without the 'privilege' factor? Do you suppose this crime "blue screened" the brains of SJWs?
Whose perspective are you specifically arguing against here? Googling "black people can't be racist" doesn't really provide a realistic representation of an argument you're addressing.

Also, technically this is xenophobia, not necessarily racism. Certainly a hate crime, though.
 

Stevicus

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Staff member
Premium Member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-back-to-your-country/?utm_term=.b28731a7c428

An elderly Hispanic man was attacked with a brick and told to go back to mexico. Clearly a racist hate crime, correct?
Except that the perpetrator was a back woman; someone that many would claim can't be racist. How would they characterize this occurrence, especially without the 'privilege' factor? Do you suppose this crime "blue screened" the brains of SJWs?

The "SJW" response might be that blacks and Hispanics are often pitted against each other.

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/20...ation-latino-jobs-unemployment-low-wage-trump

I hear of the occasional brawl or melee between blacks and Hispanics - sometimes in schools and prisons. I recall working at a school many years ago on Cinco De Mayo when there was an all-out melee. It took over 100 cops to restore order.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
"Mexican" isn't a race.

Mexican racism...

Overall, populations identified as having the lightest skin fall into the highest wealth brackets in Mexico, while those with the darkest skin are concentrated at the bottom. These dynamics, other studies have found, seem to persist across generations.

Similar disparities emerged when we examined other measures of economic well-being, such as material possessions – like refrigerators and telephones – and basic amenities.


http://theconversation.com/study-re...xico-disproving-its-race-blind-rhetoric-87661

Yes, I know totally non-sequitur to your post, but Mexico has long had its own problem with racism.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
My guess is, putting on my SJW hat, that one oppressed party is vying with another oppressed party. Due to the woman being poor and black it is likely that she wins the grievance prize and so her actions are more reactionary than they are racist. In short, due to her level of oppression, she is not guilty of anything except being oppressed.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I don't understand that, but the assailant could very well be racist.
But "violent bigoted nationalist" looks more supportable.
I agree. Or just plain 'bigot'. We can argue percentages and history, but anyone can be a bigot no matter what the person's background is.
 

Stevicus

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That's one of the downsides of nationalism. It's not clear what triggered this particular scene. He said the Italian was "barging past him" and "you don't own me." The guy was angry about something he did, but then he asked where he was from - and then he just started picking on the fact that he was Italian.

It's one thing to address something that's rude or discourteous by an individual, regardless of what their national origin might be. But then to go on and on like that; that's out of line.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-back-to-your-country/?utm_term=.b28731a7c428

An elderly Hispanic man was attacked with a brick and told to go back to mexico. Clearly a racist hate crime, correct?
Except that the perpetrator was a back woman; someone that many would claim can't be racist. How would they characterize this occurrence, especially without the 'privilege' factor? Do you suppose this crime "blue screened" the brains of SJWs?
"Back woman"?

Did you mean to say "black"?

Bigotry and hate comes in all colors.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
My guess is, putting on my SJW hat, that one oppressed party is vying with another oppressed party. Due to the woman being poor and black it is likely that she wins the grievance prize and so her actions are more reactionary than they are racist. In short, due to her level of oppression, she is not guilty of anything except being oppressed.

So you'd say in this case she is the winner of the oppresison
olympics? :D

Who knows why she was mad at the guy.
Or if she just said the first thing that came to mind,
with it having no particular meaning.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
I have known minorities that say negative things about or wrong other minorities.

I'm not sure what "minorities" have to do with this. Just over a week ago, I was the subject of what I consider to be a racist verbal attack at my restaurant by a black male.

He told me that he hated white people and that he would conquer me. Is this not racism because I'm not a minority?
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I'm not sure what "minorities" have to do with this. Just over a week ago, I was the subject of what I consider to be a racist verbal attack at my restaurant by a black male.

He told me that he hated white people and that he would conquer me. Is this not racism because I'm not a minority?

Ha. Just wait till you are!
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I'm not sure what "minorities" have to do with this. Just over a week ago, I was the subject of what I consider to be a racist verbal attack at my restaurant by a black male.

He told me that he hated white people and that he would conquer me. Is this not racism because I'm not a minority?
I see stuff like that....hatred against whites.....
Its a more acceptable form of bigotry in our culture.
There is a double standard.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
That's one of the downsides of nationalism. It's not clear what triggered this particular scene. He said the Italian was "barging past him" and "you don't own me." The guy was angry about something he did, but then he asked where he was from - and then he just started picking on the fact that he was Italian.

It's one thing to address something that's rude or discourteous by an individual, regardless of what their national origin might be. But then to go on and on like that; that's out of line.

I guess the British man started freaking out when he heard a foreign accent.
When I go to Milan...strangers there are so nice and kind to me...but when I have to converse with them, and I start speaking, their attitude changes...and ask disappointed: "You're from Rome, right?"

And yes...they look down on you.
 
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