• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    There are so many terms today that are so over used that they have become meaningless. There are still actual racists. Unfortunately there will always be racists. But you minimize that real problem by shouting “racist” at anyone who disagrees with you

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      16 days ago

      Bingo. The stupid shit I see called racist around here. Yikes. Plenty of real racism to go around y’all!

      • Mickey7@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I can’t think of anyone with a more direct answer than Martin Luther King - “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Anyone who judges someone by the color of their skin is a racist

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          16 days ago

          That’s a great answer. So who are the people who you feel are being called racist today that should not be?

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          I bet that’s the only thing you know from that speech, and I bet you’ve never read anything else he wrote.

          Here’s some of the other things he said during that speech:

          Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation,” King said in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. “But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

          It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.

          There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

          I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.

          Sounds like all of that applies to black people in 2025. Almost like the term “racism” is not overused because there’s still a shit ton of it.

          Learn about Dr. King next time you put his words in your mouth and twist their meaning.

    • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      I’ve not heard it overused. Now, if your definition of racism is “has a deep hatred of some race” then I can see why you’d think that. Most people don’t hate other races, we just do the occasional racism without even thinking about it.