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[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (69 children)

Going to bat for "cracker" is really a bad fight for the left to pick. There is nothing to gain, and people who aren't terminally online will say "you're carefully litigating whether 'moron' is cool, but you're OK with insulting someone's skin color?"

But most importantly, there's nothing to gain.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Going to bat for "cracker" is really a bad fight for the left to pick.

No.

Tailism and concern trolling about not offending whitey is weak liberal shit.

Are you even a leftist or do you just like le weed?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Re-defining racism to mean structural racism and structural racism only is commandism, not tailism:

Commandism is wrong in any type of work, because in overstepping the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of voluntary mass action it reflects the disease of impetuosity. Our comrades must not assume that everything they themselves understand is understood by the masses. Whether the masses understand it and are ready to take action can be discovered only by going into their midst and making investigations.

If you "make investigations," you'll find that most people define racism as something like "prejudice or hate based on skin color." They would say, for instance, that a black American manager who gives their white employees all the shit assignments is racist in a similar way to a white manager who gives black employees shit assignments, even though the U.S. is overwhelmingly racist against black people.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Re-defining racism to mean structural racism and structural racism

It always meant structural racism. Just because colloquially people confused it with "some of my best friends are X" liberal colorblindness and "I'm totally not personally prejudiced/bigoted therefore it doesn't matter that I benefit from structural racism" was a matter of reactionary miseducation.

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