What is racism?

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  1. Cybred

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    Sorry but its equal.
     
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    Not if they have different criteria based on race it isn't.

    And even if they are equal, selecting one based on race is racial discrimination.
     
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    Afirmative action is restitution for the years of suffering caused by jim crow laws, not racism.
     
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    Restitution means making up for a wrong done to somebody. Preferential treatment to one person done because of unfair treatment of another is not restitution, it's racism. The first person is not the second person, and they ought no to be treated as such just because they share a skin tone.
     
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    Racism is camping per NBC.

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    Racism is the democrat's election strategy.
     
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    Yes, always has been. Lots of people out there are super racist and use people speaking Spanish or Portuguese or Chinese or Arabic or Farsi or anything else as justification to be a dick.

    Which is hilarious because those same people looking down on people who don’t speak English as a first language sound like a perpetually meth-headed version of Boomhauer from King of the Hill.
     
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    And what about cascade effects?
     
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    Well not exactly. Racism is the belief that one race is inherently superior to another hence the term white supremacist, Leonard Jeffries of the sun people and Ice people nonsense would be a black supremacist as would Louis Farrakhan. For that matter so would the authors of Critical race theory and the fallacious 1619 project; assuming they actually believe the pablum they are preaching which they well may not.
     
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    Thats just a bare bones dictionary definition of it all and it doesn’t fully encompass anything.
     
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    Are you making any effort to trace them, or are you merely presuming that if somebody is a particular race then they suffer what others their race suffer?
     
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    You two are being obtuse...There is no selection over another. Extra seats are added to compensate for any lineage issues the AA student may suffer.

    For instance when a collage pre selects students based on Lineage, AA will extend the registration period for students without those benefits, or fund additional access.

    No one is chosen over another. A legacy based student still gets his preferential treatment when an AA student is placed in the class along with them. Its not either or, that is your confusion.
    Second its a fact that white people benefited the most from AA.

    I know it wont stop you 2 from repeating your falsehoods, but other readers are now informed.
     
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    Racism is disagreeing with a liberal or asking someone where they live if fishing in a private pond or basically anytime you're remotely critical of any minority..... And also pointing out crime statistics because math and facts are racist
     
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    Lineage? What are you on about? Do you mean to qualify for racial discrimination preference you have to prove your ancestor was a slave or something and that black people whose ancestors immigrated after slavery ended are excluded? Even if so, a person is not her ancestor. If you want to base things on hardship, then the person you are giving preference to should probably be the one who endured the hardship, don't you think?

    Or by lineage do you mean legacy admissions, which are also a form of discrimination? If so, why are they relevant? Are you presuming everyone against race based admissions ins't against legacy based admissions? Both are unjust.

    Why do you think that is relevant? I don't care what some peope who were white benefited from (in this case gender based admissions?). Those are not the same white (or asian) people who are being discriniated against here. If you equate white people as if they are one, and as if somehow a benefit to one offsets discrimination against another, that too is clearly racism.

    You have shown no falsehoods in anything that I have written. And I think you know that.
     
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    Crime statistics? Oh like pretending .00003% of a population represents the whole huh, and ignoring the fact the majority if all crimes are simply committed by males to fit a narrative that only select races need to be culled. Yea that can be inferred as racist.
     
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    What percent of the population are you even talking about? People from Micronesia?

    Your post is a straw man that doesn't make any sense
     
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    If so, that would be racism. That doesn't appear to be what was written though.
     
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    You weren't referring to FBI crime stats?
     
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    Of course not.... That would be racist
     
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    Racism can also be making up stories about random black guys asking for you to buy them a drink at bars and hoping no one else sniffs out that bullshit.
     
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    Racism can also be sticking your head in the sand and pretending that there's no problem in society.
     
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    It is racism

    It is not restitutiuon as it pays nothing. No one benefits.

    The claims justifying AA are lies it is strictly cheap revenge and racism
     
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    AA doesnt prevent non AA qualifed from attending, it finances extra spots.
    Its was a supplement for not having legacy privlage thats it.
     
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