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What is a "non-racialized person"? I'm genuinely curious, because in america people say things like "colorblindness is racism," and that even though I tried not to see race when I was younger, somehow that made me racist?
OP was not raising "rational info," he posted a political cartoon criticizing people for being upset about ICE murdering people who happened to be white. There's nothing rational about that.
It is the literal translation of the equivalent of "POC" in Catalan and Spanish. Here racism is not only based on the color of the person, but also on ethnicity (e.g., Roma people) and obviously social class. We use racialized people (US: POC) and non-racialized people (US: white) in leftist spaces, but also in academic spaces. Also, as an example, it serves better to explain how a non-racialized Catalan could be a racialized person in the Anglosphere or in the 1993 Rwandan genocide.
The number of deaths was a rational info. I would say that the comic criticizes the reality, and call the people to react.
Wait, I'm confused by your wording. Is a non-racialized person a POC or a white person?
I thought race and ethnicity were different concepts. If I'm remembering correctly from sociology class in a US community college, ethnicity is based on ancestry/culture/linguistics, while race is a social construct based on appearance.
i.e. "white" is a race, but "German," "Irish," or "French" is an ethnicity. Likewise "middle-eastern" is a race, while "Arab," "Persian," or "Kurdish" are ethnicities. Or "black" is a race while "Tutsi," "Hutu," or "Xhosa" are ethnicities.
Drawing an arbitrary distinction between "racialized" and "non-racialized" to me seems a bit more harmful because it implies that there's a "default" or a "plain/raceless" people group, and that anyone outside of it is "different" or "not normal". To me it seems that such a distinction should either be applied to everyone or to no one.
Granted, I don't know all the subtleties and implications of its use within Catalan culture; but that's at least what its translation seems to indicate to my anglophone mind.
If the focus of the post were simply on the death toll so far, that would be totally fine. But the comic made the central focus be on blaming white people who are upset, and the names and numbers below seemed like more of an afterthought as an attempt to justify the comic.
The comic itself doesn't criticize the reality, because the reality is that lots of white people were already upset before this. How do you expect the people to react if whenever they do somebody calls them racist for not reacting soon enough, even if they've already been participating in actions?