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@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party
No generalizations are not racist. The definition of racism is:
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
Saying a factual statement about what did or didnt happen such as what I said: "I've been in arab communities outside of Israel the people have been some of the kindest people I've ever met."
No thats not racist... The definition is very clear. It also isnt even a generalization, it is simply a statement of fact as to what I experienced and made no extrapolation to "everyone".
It is very odd just how hard you are bending over backwards to find racism where none exists.
"There Is No Such Thing as Race"
https://www.newsweek.com/there-no-such-thing-race-283123
if there is no such thing as race there can't be racism either, xenophobia would be the right term, xenophobia can be fear, hatred or aversion of what is foreign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia
I dont agree with the premise that there is no such thing as race, so any conclusions drawn from that also fail.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Sure there is only one humanity, and that humanity is made up of a large spectrum of races.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
Americans have races, there are no races for instance in Sweden.
Of course there are races in sweden, people of foreign races come to sweden all the time. Now if you mean its relatively racially homogeneous, sure.. whats the point?
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
> what's the point?
the category "race" doesn't exist here, this is not USA.
Whether youuse the word or not doesnt change the fact that race exists..
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
the word "race" dehumanises people, renders them to animals.
I dont see how, race is a special word we use just for humans. We explicitly have different terms to refer to the same property in animals, specifically so it isnt dehumanizing.
Thats like saying its dehumanizing to say humans have blood because animals have blood.. there are many universal and objective things animals share with humans, the existence of race just happens to be one of them.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
We arent talking about definitions we are talking about a physical property... If there is an apple on the table no matter if you have a word for it or not an apple is still there.
What definition you give race is irrelevant. The fact remains the idea of race as I am refering to it exists, even if you use race to mean something else.
@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist
