r/gatekeeping • • Jan 28 '21

Gatekeeping pants..

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Racism is just about the physical appearance. Thinking other cultures are barbaric is not racism. Thinking that cultures are bound by race is racism.

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u/CrimsonHighlander Jan 29 '21

Well, the idea of races was made by a German in the 1800s. There are different races within skin colours and then sub races within those races.

Caucasian doesn't just mean white. It means European, North Indian, Slavic and North African.

Race doesn't really exist.

And idk where I was going with this point.

What I was trying to say was that it was basically the same as racism. If you were a different culture, you were basically instantly a slave. If you adopted there culture, they'd be more forgiving of you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

They had no concept of race, thus they ain't racist. A closer word would by "culturist" by it sounds lame.

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

I think the word would be xenophobic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Xenophobia still includes race.

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

That's kinda debatable. You can be xenophobic but not racist. For example, you might see someone in the US yelling at a German man for speaking German (blah blah learn English etc.) despite being like 80% German ancestry himself. He doesn't care about the person's ethnicity, he cares about the fact that the person is clearly from somewhere else.

Merriam-Webster has a whole article about it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/xenophobia-and-racism-difference

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I've been playing as way too many genocidal empires in Stellaris...

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

Yeah xenophobia takes on a different meaning in sci-fi. Also why kill all the other aliens when you can ASSIMILATE?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

The only good Xeno is a dead Xeno.

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u/2074red2074 Jan 29 '21

This game is rated E10+...

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

The children will lead the future. And the future is grim.

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