• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.

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        12 hours ago

        equating skin colour with culture

        Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.

        I’m in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I’m a foreigner here because I’m white.

        It’s not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.

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        15 hours ago

        Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.