• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    Let’s look at some of the most well known historic instances of racism:

    • Slavery: an institution that cruelly subjugated black people. It was enforced by the provisional governments in North America before the US revolution, enshrined into the Constitution, and required a civil war to end. People in power: white men
    • The Trail of Tears: an illegal genocide of several Native American tribes, which had them march over 1000 miles to Oklahoma. People in power: white men
    • The Chinese Exclusion Act: this was the first time the US border was strictly enforced. It was designed to stop people from China and the Philippines from entering the US, on racist grounds. It was used to deport Chinese people that had just finished building the Transatlantic Railroad. People in power: white men
    • Redlining neighborhoods: the US and banks worked together to provide cheap loans for buying houses and starting businesses. Zip codes were classified as low risk, medium risk, and high risk. It was never stated outright, but there was high correlation between black people living in an area and being associated with more risk. Black people almost never qualified for a loan, because their zip code was in a “high risk” (redlined) neighborhood. People in power: white men
    • Building the national highway network: when deciding where to build highways, white neighborhoods were usually avoided and instead divided or destroyed minority neighborhoods. People in power: white men
    • Jim Crow: the famous “separate but equal” laws, which controlled several aspects of black people’s personal lives and legally entrenched them as second class citizens to white people. People in power: white men
    • Sarah Valentine@pawb.social
      41·
      2 months ago

      “let’s look at racism”

      brings up historic examples of systemic, institutionalized racism, omitting every single personal act of racism in history

      You expect me to take this seriously as a rebuttal?

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        23·
        2 months ago

        I’d like a list of interpersonal racism that has the same historical impact, then. I’ll help you get started:

        • The murder of Emmett Till
        • Sarah Valentine@pawb.social
          31·
          2 months ago

          You just love moving those goalposts so you can keep having a leg to stand on.

          I don’t love you doing it. Ta-ta.

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
            22·
            2 months ago

            Me: racism is about power. Lists a bunch of racism

            Those are all systemic! What about the interpersonal racism??!?!??

            Me: ok, then list some famous historical instances of interpersonal racism.

            lOoK hOW tHoSe gOaLPoStS mOvE

        • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          2 months ago

          I don’t think you can make sense of the Emmett Till lynching and its aftermath without the social context. It’s an expression of (systemic) racism.

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 months ago

            I agree with you, however I’d argue that it was the aftermath of his death that displays how racism is about power, rather than his murder. The reason I’m calling it interpersonal is because most accounts accused him (falsely) of catcalling/whistling at a white woman

    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      lets look at some more.

      Rohingya genocide

      a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. (not white people)

      Persecution of Uyghurs in China

      Widespread human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party against the Uyghur people (not white people)

      Yazidi genocide

      The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State throughout Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. (not white people)

      Darfur genocide

      The Darfur genocide is the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people which has occurred during the war in Darfur. (not white people)

      Effacer le tableau

      Effacer le tableau (“erasing the board”) was the operational name given to the systematic extermination of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (not white people)

      Massacres of Hutus

      During the First Congo War, troops of the Rwanda-backed Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL) conducted mass killings of Rwandan, Congolese, and Burundian Hutu men, women, and children in villages and refugee camps in eastern Zaire. (not white people)

      and on and on and on.

      A certain skin color is not a requirement for being shitty to your fellow humans.