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Incredible. You honestly spun it so that the person who is the victim of racism is in fact to blame.


The person in the article said “white people are so fragile”. That’s a racist statement, so no spinning needed.


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This is the Marxist conception of racism, because Marxists believe that any interaction between two people is primarily one of power. People who don't believe that every single interaction they have with someone is predicated on the power struggle between the groups they belong to, have no problem excluding systemic oppression from their definition of racism, because they believe that interactions exist between two individuals. If one individual makes a blanket statement about a person because of a racial group that they belong to, then that's racist, if you believe in the divinity of the individual.


> This is the Marxist conception of racism

No, it's a concept of racism that originates with people who abandoned Marxism for bourgeois identity politics. The right likes to call it “Marxist” because it originated with former Marxists and exists within a dialectical framework which replaces the Marxist class-conflict framework with a racial-conflict one, but it is very much not—and in some ways fundamentally opposed to—Marxism.


Maybe "Neo-Marxist" is a better label then.


Calling it "Marxist" doesn't make it untrue.


I didn't just call it Marxist, I explained the difference.


Pointing out racisim on both sides is not excusing it from either one.




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