@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.

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

"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

@otso

I dont agree with the premise that there is no such thing as race, so any conclusions drawn from that also fail.

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

there is only one humanity

@otso

Sure there is only one humanity, and that humanity is made up of a large spectrum of races.

@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @AmpBenzScientist

@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

Americans have races, there are no races for instance in Sweden.

@otso

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?

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

> what's the point?

the category "race" doesn't exist here, this is not USA.

@otso

Whether youuse the word or not doesnt change the fact that race exists..

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

for you as an American, yes, but not for me.

@otso @whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @freemo You have Socialism and problems with immigrants, don't try to take the high ground.

@AmpBenzScientist @whosthatguurrrl @freemo

Racism was science in Sweden not that long ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology

@otso

Race as ann objective and observable fact exists whether you have an institute to study it or not. Though not studying it puts people at risk in many ways, including their health (as we use race to determine certain risk factors for disease for example).

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

yes, but I would use the word ethnicity instead of race

@otso

Ok, but the word ethnicity already exists and it has a completely different meaning than race.. So you took the common defnition of race, and deleted the word... took the definition of ethnicity, erased it and replaced it with the old definition of race... and now have nno word for ethnicity as it is usually defined... i mean ok, sounds really confusing.

But in the end call it whatever you want, I dont care, as long as we recognize race, based on my definition, exists, and its there regardless, you just shuffled around the definitions.

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@freemo @whosthatguurrrl @AmpBenzScientist

what for you as an American is "race" is called ethnic group ("folkgrupp") in Sweden

@otso I dont know swedish, but it seems your mistranslating...

Race and "Ethnic Group" means different things in English. So its not possible that race in English translates to folkgrupp in Swedish which somehow translates back to English as a totally different phrase "ethnic group".

Either folkgrupp is the Swedish word for race, or its the Swedish word for "ethnic group", it cant be both.