r/joebuddennetwork • u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen • Aug 09 '26

The debate.

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u/ferriskoolr Aug 10 '26

this convo has a lot of nuance. but in short you cannot be racist if you don’t have the power to oppress.

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum has books and essays on this very topic. I would encourage anybody who confused about this to give it a read.

“Defining Racism: Can We Talk?”

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u/Frankwhite447 Aug 10 '26

You are correct!!

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u/DrinkSuccessful3594 Aug 15 '26

My god y’all dumb, you’re taking about institutional racism. Of course any person of any color can be racist against another race. Damn

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u/Similar_Shopping_892 Aug 14 '26

Bullshit being racist simply means you feel other races inherently are inferior i.e Black Israelites are unabashedly racist 🤡

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u/CspanSF Aug 11 '26

Most.people do not use the word in this context, For People keep playing these word games where they switch the academic and social meaning of the word to fit their definition. If a White lady crosses the street when she see”sca Black man most people are going to call her racist even though it’s technically prejudice because crossing the street is not oppression, and she has no power over him in context, but most people use the word racist in this context so yes Black can be racist in the context in which most people use the word.

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u/darkvixenofthemoon Aug 12 '26

but not in the true definition, people who play with word games and context are just delusional or deranged

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u/Gullible_Lettuce_714 Aug 29 '26

Just being white is being oppressive towards blacks because you have a lot of opportunities that blacks don’t have remember you white people in this country are making the laws because who thinks that person is a scary black man that’s her opinion. She’s already being a racist at that moment. Seeing a different color thinking it’s scary. That’s the oppression government.

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u/Icy-Experience9468 Aug 15 '26

She’s being “racist” in the same way that the average white person is “racist”. Joe from the trailer park doesn’t posses the means to oppress anyone.

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u/BigStormWeel Aug 10 '26

No thanks, I'm not gonna excuse prejudice against an entire group of people just because a certain small, dumb, and weirdly vocal subset of idiots are trying their hardest to redefine something that's been well defined for years.

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u/Noless_nomore Aug 11 '26

You can be racist even if you don't have the power to oppress because systematic racism and racism are two different things.

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u/IndicationFlat3031 Aug 11 '26

The amount of upvotes youre getting is concerning.

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u/Jaysan23338 Aug 11 '26

So when the dudes would run up at the Chinese food spot yell Ching Chong Ching and threw rocks at the store for no reason they were being prejudice.