I’ve never heard someone say the N word in person until today I think. One minority (aboriginal) telling me how something about blacks but using the N word instead of blacks/African-american.

There are a lot of other smaller instances I’ve seen in my personal life too.

I’ve never seen Indian versus Pakistan racism, but I would at least get why that might happen, since history.

In public policy, the majority (caucasians) are prob the most racist here, but in casual conversation I might hear more minority vs minority racism. I think this partially might be because caucasians have it drilled into them (my city) that they have to not be racist in convo?

I’ve never understood why some minority groups didn’t come out to support black lives matter (here), but it seems to look like bc they don’t care to help out blm bc its not explicitly minority-name-here lives matter

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  • Ghost of Faso
    8•2 years ago

    a lot of intersectional theory talks about this, in short its because they are mirroring the oppression that they have learned from society and reflecting it back often in worse ways.

    Its how you get your uncle toms, your partiarchal wives ect

    • @NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
      3•2 years ago

      Any suggestions on how to tell them not to say the n word? It’s so egregious i don’t know where to begin. Like no way do they think it’s actually an appropriate word to use.

      I was once speaking to a ESL chinese lady and she used a racist term instead of jewish, but it was clear imo she didnt know that the term was racist.

      • Ghost of Faso
        1•2 years ago

        hand them off some claudia jones to read if they can be bothered, otherwise there is only so much you can do to change someones mind in regards to this other than making them interact with black people irl in a civil manner to dispell any bullshit they might have built up.

        Its hard to say but I would say a place of empathy is probably the best approach; just gotta realize labeling theory in psychology suggests there is a 80/20 split in people when they get given a ‘label’, this applies to sociological concepts like racism too; the 20 will reject the system of racism people push onto them and apply it to other people in there community without theory to understand the mechanisms of racism are universal control levers by the upper class.