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Because it's not powerism, it's racism.
Whiteness itself is proximity to power.
That's why it can change, like for Italians and Irish
The discrimination is on the basis of race. That doesn't make it right, that doesn't mean that's the actual reason they're doing it in their minds. You're adding unnecessary context to the base word instead of adding the appropriate expansions to the base word to make it fit the desired context.
No it's just that words can sometimes mean different things depending on context. It's not "unnecessary" when you're actually trying to understand the long term effects of 400+ years of slavery, oppression, and atrocities.
The only kind of people who find it "unnecessary" are the kind of people with no actual genuine interest in grappling with our horrific racist past which is the only way we could ever possibly begin to repair that shit. They'd rather just ignore it and pretend it never happened. Or immediately get weirdly defensive because "they didn't personally do slavery".
I have no idea why you're trying so hard to talk about anything except the literal actual thing we're talking about. This conversation is over.
Let's look at some of the most well known historic instances of racism:
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.
I appreciate your input. However, this entire conversation was in the context of specifically the US. The dimension of power exists in all of those cases as well.
Moving the goal posts seems to be a hobby of yours
You expect me to take this seriously as a rebuttal?
I'd like a list of interpersonal racism that has the same historical impact, then. I'll help you get started:
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.
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
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.
Me: racism is about power. Lists a bunch of racism
Me: ok, then list some famous historical instances of interpersonal racism.