End of disussion.

        • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          ok now were the perpetrators protected by the state? did the media spin up defense after defense of them? or did they use it to stoke racial fervor about the need to protect white children?

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                But your point was “show me an example of this, because I don’t believe there is one.” Then you were shown an example of what you were not expecting to find. Shouldn’t you reconsider your point?

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                  a rhetorical question is one where you know what answer you’re going to get but you ask anyway in order to use it as an example for the point you’re actually trying to make.

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                    I know what a rhetorical question is. I’m wondering what point you were trying to make if not “you can’t find any examples of someone getting murdered over anti-white prejudice.”

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              It really isn’t, as the broader point she was making over prejudice and bigotry was that white supremacist attacks, violence, and oppression are far more dangerous and ubiquitous in American/Euro society than are incidents like the Fresno shootings. The difference and point that silent_water was making, as I interpret it, is that the state and culture both embrace, protect, and enable white supremacist violence through its law enforcement system, judiciary, legislature, through the media, through the broader culture, and through its ability to determine who is worthy of dignity and who is worthy of annihilation.

              “We should be more conciliatory to left-liberals “baby socialists” about white fragility and identity” is not something I’d care to cater to either.

              Othello’s comment was against people who identify as white as a cultural identity, not the pigmentation of their skin.

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            That’s all irrelevant, because someone killed those people over bullshit race crap. That is racism, and it was lethal. We need to counter racism in all its forms if we want to unite the proletariat, because even person-to-person racism in private with no structural protection is harmful and sectarian.

            ok now were the perpetrators protected by the state?

            Just the same as the Buffalo shooting, same as the Christchurch mosque shootings. Life in prison, no parole. Again, not that it’s relevant; it’s still racism even if you’re not protected.

            I asked how you define racism, because I can’t understand why you keep suggesting that structural support is required for racial supremacy bullshit to become racism. It’s not a prerequisite. Racism is racism, it’s just more powerful when a state or society institutionalizes it.