Mitt gets booed at the NAACP convention.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by BigV

wrong again.

a person of color who makes prejudicial judgments about white people, that's being racist "against" whites.

You are still missing the point.

I'm not missing anything. You and I clearly just disagree about what the word "racism" means.

Prejudice against white people from poc is prejudice. It's not a good thing but it isn't racism.

Hundreds of years of institutionalized prejudice and hatred against poc from white people, and anything that plays into that, is racism. Never the other way around, until poc have oppressed white folk for hundreds of years.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Ibby

Prejudice against white people from poc is prejudice. It's not a good thing but it isn't racism.

So you're saying you misread my original post, because I never said shit about poc on white racism/predjudice.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Griff

So you're saying you misread my original post, because I never said shit about poc on white racism/predjudice.

Originally Posted by Ibby

the racism is in the othering of black people inherent in the rhetoric and the policies of the party as a whole, and mitt's own personal consistent comments.

as in, what romney said was racist because he's talking about "giving 'them'" - by who he specifically means the audience at the NAACP, by which he means black people - "free stuff", in a way that is A.) entirely disingenuous and B.) extremely othering and exclusionary.

Originally Posted by Ibby

Also, "racism" isn't "stuff that acknowledges race" - its stuff that helps contribute to the systems of oppression of minority groups, duh. "Reverse racism" is not racism.

as in, it wouldn't be racist for Biden to address a crowd of poc and (obviously sarcastically) say that they'd love to give them all free stuff, because saying "we DON'T favor taking away what little many of you already have" isn't racist.

[Sheldonrs]

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