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Wild they said racism was fake and we are all playing the victim card (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marginalization is not universal or absolute. You can easily have people who are marginalized in some contexts, and privileged in others.

An easy example is religion.

A christian in Spain is probably considered part of the majority and privileged, meanwhile, that same person could be subject to intense persecution in a country like Saudi Arabia because of the same beliefs.

The same can be applied to this child being bullied by their racist peers.

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's not absolute, yes. But we're not talking about any situation—specifically white and black children using a specific racial slur. One of those belongs to a group that has been (and still is) systematically persecuted with that term connected. The other has not. We're not seriously going to say that one white kid potentially being bullied is somehow comparable to the history of societal persecution against black people I hope.

The point I was making is it's not reasonable to turn one situation of someone being bullied as evidence that black people are not allowed to use the n word if white people can't. That's it. I'm really amazed that is somehow controversial.