see, there's a hierarchy. white people are at the top of it. black people are at the bottom of it. it's the natural order of things, and can't be altered.
therefore, black people cannot be racist - because they're inferior. when black people say racist things, they're just being uppity.
get it?
Issac Hopson
+jessica Wrong spokesman for white superiority.
jessica
+Issac Hopson well, perhaps i'm making the error of excluding the middle. but, in context, i don't think it's irrational. if one is inherently and irreversibly inferior, it certainly follows that they can never genuinely express feelings or perceptions of superiority, does it not? if one follows these perspectives closely, and i have, it does appear that this is legitimately the crux of the argument.
fwanksajerk
+jessica "black people cannot be racist - because they're inferior" Poor wording. Sounds like something I would write.
jessica
+fwanksajerk you may want to read between the lines a little. i tried to make it pretty obvious.
Lo Cas
+fwanksajerk oblivious much?
eye emoji
+jessica no. a hiearchy has nothing to do with racism. racism means thinking your race is better than others. if i, a mexican, were to say ''fuck those blacks'' i would be RACIST. if a white person said ''fuck the muslims!'' then they would be racist. and if a black person said ''fuck those spics!'' they would be racist. i don't know who made up the whole black people cant be racist because they're the systematically most oppressed blahblahblah because that's a whole other type of racism.
jessica
+eye emoji well, i actually think they're on to something in differentiating between what could be called "casual racism" (they toss this aside as discrimination) and really meaningful "systemic racism" (which they elevate to the status of Real Racism).
i mean, there's obviously a difference between somebody slowing down in a car and yelling something at somebody and somebody firing or refusing to interview somebody. the second option can seriously limit somebody's positive freedom. the first is really just harmlessly being an asshole.
it even makes sense to suggest that in certain societies - like the apartheid systems in the american south and in south africa - that racism against whites (in the second sense) is basically impossible, because the systemic realities are such that it really can't occur.
the error that arises is two-fold:
1) the american south is far from an egalitarian society, but it's not the hierarchically enforced system of white supremacy that it once was. it's consequently disingenuous to continue the same arguments. there are blacks with real power in the southern states, and they're every bit as capable of abusing it as whites are.
2) to jump from "whites cannot be meaningfully discriminated against in an apartheid society" to "racism against whites is universally impossible" is a tremendous leap of specious logic that, when heard, broadly suggests that the speaker is not truly familiar with the source material, but is carrying on slogans that they heard second hand.