Yea I really don't understand how people on this platform don't realize that racism is bad.
And I'm not in my teenage years anymore.
It's crazy how you're calling me right wing for saying I'm against racism.
This has to be one of the most ignorant comments I've ever seen online
You are not different by your skin color its human made. This idea is very outdated and not supported by any scientific research. There is one human race which is called Homo sapiens sapiens. Thinking someone is different because of their skin is human made and the definition of racism.
See its very paradox to say, we need to act racist because racism exists instead of trying to end it by the root. You can't fight fire with fire, it's as simple as that. And that's not just my opinion. Wake up people
I'm saying people not acknowledging unequally treating people based on their looks is bad and even trying to justify it are the cause of racism since their argumentation is based on the fundamentals of its literal definition and thereby supporting it in an ongoing cycle.
Great to hear that there is someone sharing my views here!
Yea maybe there is indeed some misunderstanding going on. I'm not at all against acknowledging that there are minorities being treated unfairly cause that's literally the thing I was doing and complaining about and was saying we need to stop treating people differently based on their ethnicity or looks since that's the cause of these people being treated unfairly.
You can literally look up the definition on Google: ["1 : a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"
"also : behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief : racial discrimination or prejudice"](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)
You should start judging people by their face value and not by what other people say
Yes that's what they say and not me. I'm saying we need to stop racism and not trying to justify it!
That's literally not at all what I meant. My post itself was acknowledging it (this post as well) and I was saying we need to end it to put people in boxes and treat them in this toxic/inequal way based on their skin or ethnicity! I'm saying people are racist for being racist, not for acknowledging that racism exist (cause with that logic I would be racist myself for acknowledging that racism exist). It's a simple logic no matter how much you try to twist my words.
Then better don't look into the comments of my last post
Why are there so many people supporting racism on Lemmy?
With my recent post I was trying to ask if there are other people like me who also feel that people seem to focus more and more on skin color and ethnicity in an unhealthy and obsessive way and I thought I'd find some people agreeing with me who also feel uncomfortable and stressed out by this.
But instead the overwhelming response was people trying to justify racism instead of agreeing that it's a bad thing and needs to end. As if they were trying to use every possible argument to bash on me and justify racism.
Why could it be the case that so many people here on Lemmy support racism? In my opinion there is no reason to discriminate someone based on their looks PERIOD!
No that's the exact wrong thing to do! Instead of ignoring it or trying to justify racism we need to STOP it and start tackling it by the root problem. There is no problem with different cultures and people cause that is what makes us so special in my opinion. But to devalue or discriminate someone solely based on their skin and make such a big thing about it is just wrong in my opinion. If you guys don't see this very simple logic then I'm lost for ideas
No matter how many excuses you will find to justify racism it's just not morally acceptable. As long as we won't stop making such a big thing out of what peoples skin color or ethnicity is we will never get rid of it.
The fact that people get discriminated and unfairly treated because they have dark or bright skin is a shame and it NEEDS to stop now instead of trying to justify why it is the case and keep on doing it.
I love multiculturalism because we people naturally have different cultures. But to obsessively base everything on skin color like you people on Lemmy is just weird and racist af!
Giving up on changing certainly also isn't the solution. We always need to stay optimistic and try our best to better ourself
This reminds me of this interview of Elon Musk and Don Lemmon where I think Elon is hitting the nail on the head. And the irony being Elon is more African American than Don Lemon since Elon actually is African and Don just is American.
Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such a deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?
Hey there, I was wondering if I'm the only one who feels like this or not.
So I grew up thinking that we people all look different and never had a concept of something such as "white" and "black" people.
But especially in the last years I noticed more and more that a lot of people make such a big thing out of whether someone is "black" or "white" and what their ethnicity is.
It feels like it's to the point where they make this define their core identity as if it's very relevant how people look and how bright/dark their skin is as if this changes their personality.
It's like so many of these people constantly bring this up to the point where it's brainwashing and they literally even use racial slur as slang that was used in the past to devalue and enslave people based on their skin tone.
Since I experienced this it made me very uncomfortable since I never had this concept before and now I constantly have to obsessively think about it and feel like it's manipulating me and these peo
How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?
Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").
The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".
So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" whic