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[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean the question is not a bad starting point to understanding how white supremacy functions but I would not be asking it to 3000 hitlerites

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Don't worry most responses are "see black people can be racist too and a lot of the time are more racist."

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Yea you could use it to show them the one drop rule and how white supremacists wrote into law to consider anybody black if they have a single drop of black blood and how that shaped our societal perceptions.

Or, like other people have figured out in that thread obviously cus black people are racist against white people.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a member of the biracial delegation, I can answer this. You're neither considered black nor white, and members of those delegations feel the need to remind you on a constant basis.

[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yea the reddit post is so clearly from a white person.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Definitely. It is very revealing of their own biases and the biases of their immediate circle.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Shhh, the racism experts are about to make a cognitive breaktrough

[–] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit is a cool place because someone with a post history that sounds like Mein Kampf written by a tik tok teen can post a question like this, and thousands of 30+ milinneals will earnestly debate like they're both hosting and guest appearing on a topical interview podcast.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I was thinking reddit is a big website, the question reached the front page so there could be a few decent responses but no. When the responses are not racist they are low quality. Top response is "hmm makes you wonder why Obama is not considered the first mixed president" centrist

[–] One1two2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Whats wrong with this question besides asking redditors that is

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

They aren't asking in earnest with valid criticisms of racism.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Smh reddit-logo can't even get the format right.

"What is the One-drop rule." "Ehhhh, close but not the one we're looking for."

"What is racism." *blong* "That's it."

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Firstly, it's not a universal thing. Race is a social construct, who is considered "white" or "black", or a member of any other racial group, changes depending on where you are in the world, and the culture and history of that society and country. In South Africa for instance, mixed race people are considered, and self identify, as their own ethnic cultural group, known as the coloureds (not a racial slur in South Africa). Many things affect this, from apartheid racial classifications from the past, to cultural differences from being raised in a certain home environment. In other parts of sub Saharan Africa, people who would be considered black in the USA and/or the West, are considered mixed race or even white.

As for why that's the case in the US, one just has to read up on the "one drop" rule in the United States, and it's ramifications on modern day understanding of race in US culture and society.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

on the verge of inventing blood quantum