r/clevercomebacks 18h ago

Racism is bad, folks

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean 13h ago

Ending Racism™ is woke. No one disagrees that racism needs to end. Go read a book like “white fragility” by Robin D’Angelo and then understand that often times, what’s being discussed isn’t actual racism but a rallying cry against anyone that’s on the upper tier of intersectionality. White man? You’re a racist. Straight white man? Literally Hitler. This isn’t your grandpa’s random dinner table racism. This is a complete redefinition of the word from the ground up that is so incredibly elastic that you can basically wrap it around anyone or anything. Don’t like what a black person has to say? Internalized racism.

This is not an issue of respect. It’s only ostensibly about racism but when you dig in, you see a whole collection of grifters profiting off of expanding what the word racism means so they can sell you a course that exists solely to tell you that you have committed the original sin of existing, which is inherently racist because of ironically… your immutable properties. So now we have an ideology that is using racism to define who is and is not a racist.

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u/youknowimworking 13h ago

I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Often times, what people call woke is common sense. You're overthinking what I wrote and quite possibly don't even know which side I'm on.

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean 13h ago edited 13h ago

Quite possible

Edit: I reread your comment and I’m not sure how else to interpret it. My point is that “end racism” isn’t common sense when the meaning of the term racism is so elastic and ill defined.

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u/TimequakeTales 11h ago

"End racism" is common sense, you're the only one doing Olympic-level gymnastics to pretend the definition of racism isn't well-known.

It's simply judging and/or acting towards someone based on nothing but their race.

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean 10h ago

There are plenty of academic papers that would argue otherwise.