When people complained about the BLM protests blocking traffic, I liked to reply with pictures of MLK leading massive marches down the street.
but it doesn’t do anything!!! all it does is inconvenience the average person!! concepts such as solidarity and collective messaging are meaningless to me (i choose to ignore them)! you should go and protest in front of lawmakers’ homes quietly where i can safely choose to ignore you instead!!!
/satire
I think a 63 year old poll needs a tad more context but I’ll get hell for it I’m sure
The Civil Rights Movement - Wikipedia there’s context
Thanks I had no idea that happened.
…uh! assuming you aren’t joking, genuinely very glad you are here to learn this!
very important thing that happened not that long ago lol. :)
No. I’m responding to your flippant response with the sarcasm it deserves. Stop acting like you’re being generous and helpful. We both know what you did and are doing.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I’m not engaging this nonsense further.
i am so lost lol. take care as well ✌️💗
i mean, people outside of america exist :)
i don’t think nepalese people find the american civil rights movement tremendously relevant, for example
for sure :) nevertheless this user has mentioned living in Louisiana in the past (its edited now but said so more directly when i wrote this) and i see them discussing US politics quite frequently, so that is the context i am working with
if i didn’t have that context i’d be less confused bc for sure i’d assume it was a non american person. none of that excuses being so mean about it either way. ah well 😅
Some neo-Nazi mouthpiece in Germany got stabbed before a scheduled speech, and some Lemmy comments are all ‘oh now you’re just giving them what they want.’
I mean, if that’s what they want, they’re welcome to it. Drink your fill.
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Y. Davis
Note that anti-racist doesn’t mean “Racist against the race that isn’t currently the victim”, and it doesn’t mean “giving the targeted population special privileges in unrelated fields, to make up for it”. It means “Calling out all prejudice/hate when it happens, and addressing and reversing systemic biases that keep the underprivileged people underprivileged”
If one can’t agree with this description of being anti-racist, they’re either not helping bring about the equality they may claim to want, or they’re actually just a racist themselves and lack either empathy, perspective, or both
it doesn’t mean “giving the target population special privileges in unrelated fields to make up for it”
Your language overall makes me think you’re fine but I’d be lying if I didn’t say this particular part didn’t catch my attention. Is there a reason you felt the need to say this? In the context of affirmative action being repealed in the US it feels a tad loaded. Giving the benefit of the doubt here truly, but still curious why you felt the need to say this.
This is a common argument against affirmative action (which was not repealed in the US overall, just banned in a few very conservative states (although if I missed some major news about it being repealed on a federal level please don’t hesitate to educate me) ), I’m addressing that common counterargument by saying that it’s not what anti-racism seeks to do. Same as the example counterargument before it. That one’s referring to the types who spout nonsense such as “But that’s just being racist to white people!!1!”. They’re correct that it wouldn’t be helpful, but incorrect in their assessment that that’s the main goal of the movement.
That said, I do think that some movements and initiatives, which I will preemptively decline to name because the details and scope of these initiatives are irrelevant, are misguided in how they want to bring about equity. These movements do feed into the arguments of people who claim that affirmative action is just giving queer/nonwhite/poor/otherwise marginalized people special privileges, and that’s why I want to set them aside as separate from the concept as anti-racist.
