@apropos@fba reverse racism is fundamentally a term that makes NO fucking sense racism is racism and it doesn't matter if it's white on black or black on white or human on jew or european on european, there's no reverse racism
@lina@fba "reverse racism" is like a 50-year-old idea that's since the turn of the millennium has been getting replaced with "only whites can be racist and a 'reverse' of it makes no sense".
either the dude running mastodon.art is ancient, or he's blocking that instance for *claiming* to see reverse racism, and not for being reverse-racist themselves.
@apropos@fba i'm not a fan of cheap sarcasm like that personally, it's supposed to be absurd, but guess what, amerimutts live like that wholeheartedly and they don't mind it, so i don't even know when it's sarcasm or sincere anymore
@lina@fba ah geez, now you're using like 80-year-old terms! Nobody believes that anymore. They have a formula now: racism = power + privilege.
So when you see a white dude that's dressed in dirty rags and begging for food on the side of the street with a cardboard hovel next to him, he has PRIVILEGE OVERWHELMING that a black university professor does not have, so the university professor cannot be racist towards the beggar.
That's just math. People have been learning this for twenty years already and it's the dominant paradigm. It's as absolutely true and as universally accepted as this definition of a woman: "anyone that claims to be one".
@apropos@fba yea but every time i hear about americans being retarded and outright stripped of free will, it ends up being even worse than the last time, i just don't get time to adjust to that lol
@lina@fba I'm not being sarcastic. I don't believe any of this, but it really is the dominant paradigm in the US right now. If you said something against "reverse racism" as a celebrity, you'd be grovelling in the next video to keep your job. You'd apologize for having dated terms, and not having kept up with progressive ideas.
@lina@apropos@fba American culture makes sense when you realize the entire culture is built on starfucking and doing literally anything for fame/to get a paycheck.
People will give up their rights and free will if they think they'll keep their sick job and then in classic fashion, metaphorically face the wall.
@lina@apropos@fba the other mistake people make with dealing with internet leftists is thinking they're just like you and me (they're pitbulls networking on bluesky and signal chatrooms)