On Thursday, July 17, 2025 2:45:44 AM Mountain Standard Time Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > I get where the confusion is coming from. I am indeed saying that > sexism, racism, etc. are never OK. But that jokes targeted at the > dominant group are not racism or sexism. > > There is no such thing, in our current society, as anti-white racism or > anti-male sexism. Because these -ism are about enforcing an oppression, > and there is, by definition, no oppression happening against the > dominant group.
I completely disagree with those statements. Racism is defined as treating someone in a particular way because of their race instead of other factors. Sexism is defined as treating someone in a particular way because of their sex instead of other factors. Whether someone’s race or sex is a majority or a minority has no bearing on if it is racism or sexism. There is an entirely orthogonal and important discussion about the common history of majorities abusing minorities and the less common history of minorities abusing majorities (the second usually happens in situations where a minority has consolidated political power). But please do not confuse these with the fact that all racism and all sexism is bad, even if it is directed towards those who are in the majority or hold the majority of power. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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