• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    My favorite Kurt Vonnegut book is ‘Mother Night.’ At one point a white supremist teams up with ‘The Black Fuhrer of Harlem.’ An FBI man asks the white guy why he’s working with an African-American?

    “We both agree that the wrong people are in charge.”

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    A lot of racists love race. It is why they’re racist. Race is what means certain people belong in certain places and others are not.

    It also obscures class consciousness: the underlying reason racism is such a popular political tool for any given ruling class.

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    I love my race, it is the best race on the planet. It has invented so many things. I am proud of my race.

    And when I say “my race” I obviously mean the only race that matters: the human race.

    Everything else are just variations.

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    What is happening with this image? The quality is low because OP lazily reposted it from some other secondary source, but what’s that yellow rectangle?

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      It’s censorship. People keep censoring about because they fear getting banned on whatever crappy social media site they originally posted it too.

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    Racists think there is some sort of hierarchy among groups/nations, of which of course their own is at the top. Doesn’t matter where the racist are from, Asia, South America, North America, Europe, Africa, …

    They always believe they belong to the cream of the crop, and use different specific statistics to prove so. But that is just dumb login. In reality there are only 2 groups: normal people at the top, and racists at the bottom. Even the most useless non-racist adds more to humanity than the best racist.

    Racists add so little to society, they have to pretend skin colour is important.

    Racism is a cancer on humanity that should be cut out with a huge knife.

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    The problem is that even without malice in one’s words and action, the recognition of race itself is considered racist.

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      That’s because the concept of biological races has been thouroughly debunked. I will never understand why Anglophones still insist on using the word “race”.

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      Is it though? Or is that just what racists who don’t think they’re racist like to tell themselves because they believe in pseudoscience with embedded racism?

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    This is just wrong. Demand deportation for naturalized citizens has split the European nationalists in the EU Parliament.

  • This was a plot point in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country the factions in each empire who wanted to preserve the Federation-Klingon antagonism collaborated to subvert diplomacy efforts).