Le Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 08:57:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> writes: > > No, it's not off-topic, or not entirely. The post I replied to was saying > > "it's fine to be racist against white people". > > No, it was not. It was saying that racism by definition has to involve a > power gradient, and that definitionally something is only racist if aimed > at a disfavored group by a group with more social power. > > You may disagree vigorously with this definition -- many people do! -- but > this is a real definition of racism that is widely used in both academic > and casual contexts by many other people.
Thank you, I was beginning to wonder if what I wrote really was that hard to understand (could have been, as English is not my native language). It’s nice to get a confirmation that this is all a definition/cultural misunderstanding, and most probably not a disagreement about the underlying topic (= racism is bad, oppression is bad, nothing like that is welcome in Debian). > All that pursuing this definitional disagreement is going to do is make a > bunch of people angry at each other without clarifying anything about what > Debian will do. This is why I stopped engaging with this thread, making this single exception to validate your interpretation of my original messages. So now I am going back to not engaging further, but thanks to your post people have an extra opportunity to understand what I was trying to convey.
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