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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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Hi @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world , would you be so kind and elaborate about, how comment that is aimed on group of people based purely on their skin color is not racist and therefore reporting of it should be punished as it was? I say, it is misusing admin, or mod privileges for sake of spreading hatred against that specific group of people. All people should treat each other equally and nobody should banning people that fight racism by only option they have (had) on that platform, ergo reporting that.
You saw a rich white man once so whites can't be victims of racism?
you saw a wealthy person of color once so racism is over?
Nope.
Are you suggesting that white people have never been slaves, never experienced racism? Always been the top of the hierarchy? History goes back a long way. Racism is not just perpetuated by white people. Get a grip and maybe a history lesson.
Racism: attributing certain attributes (positive or negative) to a group of people based on perceived ethnicity. Also, to think that something like "race" even exists.
Comment in question:
That being said, for this particular comment, both parts of the statement are based in truth. On average, "white" people are still very much privileged in many parts of the world, and most world-wide atrocities committed post renaissance era were committed by the same group.
I am about as white as it gets, and I can definitely recognize this simple truth and certainly do not feel the need to get butt-hurt over someone saying it out loud.
Dude this is mental gymnastics. That's still an attribute.
If you judge someone by their race it doesn't matter the factors you've used to come to that conclusion, you're being racist.
Calling someone privileged is not judging that someone, it's judging how society treats them. Also, as I said elsewhere: rightwing assholes are intentionally diluting the severity of racism by using it inappropriately all the time. People who believe that "race" is a thing, and who judge others by the perceived ethnicity are mentally ill and / or have a severely damaged empathy sector in their brain, which kind of amounts to the same. Those people need to be treated by a shrink, and since you can't treat a mentally ill person on the internet, on forums they should be ignored and any racist comments should ideally be moderated / put into context to show them for how pathetic they are.
Adding layer of obfuscation doesn't make it not a judgment.
Maybe stop saying racist things?
Imagine your the guy who rides into the ritchest part of town, all the everyone has nice clothes, on a girls bike because its all you can afford, with cameras that know who you are by your face, with an autists social stumbling blocks, to buy dresses. And ill fucken do it again.
Privlage is to wish apon others, pain in witch you have the luxury to ignore
people and communities got in full rage mode for much less. racism is racism and is always bad and therefore it got reported. you are just trying to excuse that with all that bs around. it was racistic comment aimed on people based on their skin color, period. i guess some particular admin got butthurt even more by that report, and misused his/her power, dont you think? doesnt that fact annoy you more, than that someone reported such a comment and you feel urge to attack me in comments around?