Chikombo
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People can do things without there being an appropiate way of describing them.
When the Armenians were killed or when people mass murdered jewish settlements during the dark ages there was no word for "genocide".
It wasn't until after people killed the Armenians that we invented the word genocide, that word can be powerful, I know cus I'm an Itachi fan.
But imagine then not being able to use it despite people doing it.
This brings me to the word racism, or anything similar, sexism, homophobia, whatever.
These words are outdated from the modern world.
Simply because you can't use them.
Whenver people want to use them, and they describe people as something ugly with those words, are they really fitting? Are they really true? Think about it, when people describe pure evil they often think about the final solution, and they associate it with racism, but was it really racism?
Judaism is not a race. Which brnigs me to prejudice against religion today, like Islam, after 9/11 alot of people began to be suspicious of muslims, and the defense is that it's not a race so it's fine.
Then people say it's something other complicated word, like islamophobia, but people are not necessairly afraid of Islam and even if they were fear is not a crime.
Which leaves you with some choices, either you pretend people are racist even if they are not, you can come up with some complicated word that doesn't matter or you can either start to tihnk people do nothing wrong, or that they are doing something wrong but there is no word for it.
People keep saying Trump is Hitler, Sanders is Hitler, Trump represents white supremacy and all of that, But can you even prove that? If you really try is it possible to smear people with those words when you are being factual?
My conclusion is that there is cause for all the emotion, people can probably identify something politically incorrect about politicans today but the words racism doesn't fit.
If you break down Hitler again, and what they really stood for, was it really "racism"?
If someone wanted to be Hitler today would they really be racists? What I mean is it all depends on the targeted group. But the action is not actually different.
If I am biased towards a group of people, then you will call me different names depending on what that group is, if it's people of a minority you could call me racist, if it's a nationality you can call me whatever that word is and so on.
But It's always gonna be the same thing for me, if the group is people with asbergers syndrom I'm not even sure you would think I did something wrong.
It is a really thin line between what is acceptable and what is too far.
Imagine documenting people like people document people with asbergers, if you switch that out with a race people would freak out.
I'm not saying racism is an excuse or that people who excuse themselves are really racists, I'm saying teh words have no meaning today.
You can't call someone a white supremacist and get away with it anymore, nobody fits the stereotype, so people need to invent new words that have new meanings, and they don't have to be all bad or all excuses but they can be something in between , something that is still alarming but understandable.
When the Armenians were killed or when people mass murdered jewish settlements during the dark ages there was no word for "genocide".
It wasn't until after people killed the Armenians that we invented the word genocide, that word can be powerful, I know cus I'm an Itachi fan.
But imagine then not being able to use it despite people doing it.
This brings me to the word racism, or anything similar, sexism, homophobia, whatever.
These words are outdated from the modern world.
Simply because you can't use them.
Whenver people want to use them, and they describe people as something ugly with those words, are they really fitting? Are they really true? Think about it, when people describe pure evil they often think about the final solution, and they associate it with racism, but was it really racism?
Judaism is not a race. Which brnigs me to prejudice against religion today, like Islam, after 9/11 alot of people began to be suspicious of muslims, and the defense is that it's not a race so it's fine.
Then people say it's something other complicated word, like islamophobia, but people are not necessairly afraid of Islam and even if they were fear is not a crime.
Which leaves you with some choices, either you pretend people are racist even if they are not, you can come up with some complicated word that doesn't matter or you can either start to tihnk people do nothing wrong, or that they are doing something wrong but there is no word for it.
People keep saying Trump is Hitler, Sanders is Hitler, Trump represents white supremacy and all of that, But can you even prove that? If you really try is it possible to smear people with those words when you are being factual?
My conclusion is that there is cause for all the emotion, people can probably identify something politically incorrect about politicans today but the words racism doesn't fit.
If you break down Hitler again, and what they really stood for, was it really "racism"?
If someone wanted to be Hitler today would they really be racists? What I mean is it all depends on the targeted group. But the action is not actually different.
If I am biased towards a group of people, then you will call me different names depending on what that group is, if it's people of a minority you could call me racist, if it's a nationality you can call me whatever that word is and so on.
But It's always gonna be the same thing for me, if the group is people with asbergers syndrom I'm not even sure you would think I did something wrong.
It is a really thin line between what is acceptable and what is too far.
Imagine documenting people like people document people with asbergers, if you switch that out with a race people would freak out.
I'm not saying racism is an excuse or that people who excuse themselves are really racists, I'm saying teh words have no meaning today.
You can't call someone a white supremacist and get away with it anymore, nobody fits the stereotype, so people need to invent new words that have new meanings, and they don't have to be all bad or all excuses but they can be something in between , something that is still alarming but understandable.
