A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern

  • Zorque@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Racism also wasn’t invented solely by “white” people. That kind of myopic thinking is a big factor in why we can’t get over that shit.

    Tribalism has been a way of life since life began on this rock.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      This is a lie white people use to justify their systems and make themselves feel better.

      Racism, as we understand it, is a historical system that was, in fact, invented soley by white male Europeans and their descendants for the purposes of managing their empire.

      Tribalism isn’t racism. Racism uses tribalist tendencies to achieve its aims. Racism is a very specific historical phenomenon.

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        1 year ago

        Why is looking at the root cause of something a “justification” in your mind? If all we do is react to what’s happening now instead of finding out how to prevent it from happening in the future, we’re just fighting a losing war of attrition for the sake of ideology. In order to solve this problem we need to look at more than just the surface, and do more than just point fingers at everyone else.