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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This is massively unhelpful. Textbook definitions are not supposed to be be all end all explanations for how the world works. And when it comes to racism, what it means to a white person and what it means to a person of color is massively different, but you will not find that in Miriam Webster or whatever. The point of Marxist analysis is to recognize what are the conditions surrounding racism today and how we got here. Sure you could argue that if you ignore all context and focus solely on the literal meaning of the word “Racism” then it is technically possible to be racist towards white people. But that is not how racism has worked for the past 300-400 years, and claiming that recognizing the inherent privilege of white people in the modern day is racist in itself is self defeating. We cannot have any meaningful change without acknowledging that the modern racism has been perpetrated by white people. That’s not to say that its impossible to be racist towards white people, it is possible, but there is no INSTITUTIONAL racism that disadvantages white people, and internalizes vast populations with negative stereotypes that end up causing discrimination. To claim so is to be ignorant to the material reality of the Anglo dominated world we live in.
That’s an excellent clarification, and I agree.