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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I recall hearing a while back that racism was redefined as prejudice plus power. My critism of anti-racism is that it only cares about the power aspect of that definition. Instead of denouncing the prejudice aspect it's treated as a useful tool to exert power over society. I believe in the classical definition that racism is discrimination on the basis of race. Under this definition anti-racists are more descriminatory and more obsessed with race than the average person.

You're just throwing a bunch of ideas out. Where are you getting these definitions? What do you mean by the "classical" definition of racism. What does "classical" even mean in this context? I think you are misusing terminology that you're making up on the spot in order to sound more educated.

You remind me of people who argue (fallaciously) that MLK wanted a colorblind society and that CRT and anti-racism undermine his vision.

Anyway, CRT specifies systemic racism. Systemic racism simply means your definition, but built into the systems of society. By not acknowledging systemic racism, you are suggesting that racism is limited to the individual. This would mean that racists in power, for some reason, never used their power to corrupt the systems they were in charge of in order to perpetuate racism further. But people like you don't want to acknowledge this obvious reality because, I guess, it shatters the view certain people have of America that it's the land of the free and the home of the brave.

As for your accusation that anti-racists are the real racists, I look forward to you actually backing that up. You did no work to support that claim, and the leap you took to your conclusion is mighty.

Yet it's been made taboo to criticize anti-racism.
Here's another quote, though I don't know by whom: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

What's the relevance here? I literally said CRT deserves criticism.

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