Yesterday I reacted to something @
onrust 🍉 boosted , which led to an interesting discussion about #
racism.
ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ (@starwall@wizzzard.online) wrote:
white people will never be able to understand black and indigenous power as anything other than domineering or seeking to become top of a power pyramid because that's all they can imagine power doing. Diseased by white supremacy so immensely that they can't even imagine that phrases like "Palestine will be free" could mean anything other than genocidal hegemony.
https://wizzzard.online/@starwall/112496679715978385
That seemed a bit... odd. Was he really suggesting that someone's skin color is a factor in how they interpret that phrase? That seemed racist to me, so asked if I misunderstood:
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ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ Isn't that a tad bit racist?
I sympathise with what you're trying to say, but doing that with a gross generalisation about whites seems a bit counter-intuitive.
I got a few reactions, but either the OP or the admin seems to have removed my comment, and with it the discussion that followed. Shame, really. I learned a few things that some people will tell me I should have known already, but I'm sure I'm not the only white who doesn't know enough. Apparently, "white people" doesn't necessarily mean people with a white skin...
So I thought I'd share it from my own server, from my point of view. No threads, unfortunately, so it's pretty much impossible to see which post is a reaction to which.
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