So there was a bit of a heated discussion recently on the topic of "anti-white" or "reverse" racism and we (some of the mods) figured we would clarify some rules for this community:
- "White people" is a very vague term. Having low expectations of people in the imperial core is understandable for someone in the Global South, but it's better to be specific. Saying "I'm racist against white people" when you mean "I don't trust the average person in " is going to cause misunderstandings
- People who were racist in the past are not necessarily racist in the present. Many of us were liberals before becoming Marxists, and there's a significant overlap between liberals and racists
- No matter your ethnicity, don't use terms like "subhuman" or "orc" to describe yourself and your group; it may make others uncomfortable
- Don't call for violence (particularly against ethnic groups, but it's best to avoid it in general so the instance doesn't get in trouble)
- Stick to Lemmygrad's rules of good-faith discussion
that's all, folks
I can understand the practical realities of moderation in an anonymous online space in which such sentiments can quickly escalate to a personal level.
But we really need to kill racial ideology. I don’t think we should be that uppity about it.
We SHOULD be racist against “White people”!
Because it doesn’t exist in real life!
Why are we treating a colonial stratification of peoples into “races” and “ethnicities” at face value? Why are we offended like there is a global White genocide?
People in the global south don’t need white guilt. They don’t need self-flagellating whites on one hand and white supremacists on the other. They need “white people” to help tear down this globe-spanning economic and ideological system of stratification that has caused so much pain and suffering.
The hatred of white people is a hatred of this racist system of Capitalism that forcefully and continuously suffocates the entire world.
Mental colonization runs deep in postcolonial societies - and when the colonized lashes out, it is an expression of the humanity that has been denied. The least of my problems is when the oppressed uses the oppressor’s language to demonstrate the false justifications of the oppressor’s existence.
To phrase this another way to make it really on the nose: there are 1.5 billion Global Northerners, while there are 6.5 billion Global Southerners, and since might makes right, “white people” should really be the ones oppressed (lol).
I am not sure I understand your statement, while I agree that we should no longer have divisions based on race, and that race should not be a thing, I do not think the solution is calling a group of people, orcs or sub-humans, or calling for execution squads to commit mass genocide, as was commented on the thread and has prompted this post.
I do not think I have heard any comrade arguing that white people should be feeling personaly guilty or be self flagellating, as we need to work together arm in arm to help tare down capitalism, but putting any effort into racism, or any other discriminatory practice only seeks to further divide us, and take us farther from that goal.
I have and always will be a supporter of the colonized standing up to their oppressor, I would agree that when they stand up for their humanity it is a right and just cause, however I do not see how this has to do with discussion at hands.
Lastly, as communists we fight for the liberation of all people, for an end to opression, I do not understand your insentience that the "white people" should be oppressed, as this only contenues in the same mindset as the capitalist, that there is always a bigger fish, that oppression is alright so long as I am the one doing the oppression. We stand here and profess an ideology of equality, one where every person is treated as a person, and the idea that we should opress another group for any reason, is anthietical to this idea, to reuse a quote I used early, when Fidel Castro talked about the United States, after they had to fight a revolution to get out from under their control, and then got slapped with an economic blockade that can be defined as a genocide in and of itself, “In Cuba we have never cultivated hatred against the American people or blamed them for the aggression perpetrated by the governments of that country. That would have run contrary to our political doctrines and our internationalist conscience, both well-proven throughout many years, and increasingly rooted in our ideas.” or that Dr Ernesto "Che" Guevara once said "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." and I can only speak for myself here, but I find oppression, and blind hatred based on a characteristic a person cannot change, and was born with, and injustice, no mater who it is happening to, I would much rather judge a person on their actions, and on what they fight for, as I agree with Dr. Che Guevara, anyone who trembles with indignation at every injustice is my comrade, reguardless of who they are.
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