Can minorities be racist against other minorities?

Xelor said:

Well, you just keep thinking that....

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has nothing to do with what i think LMAO thats what you dont get. it has nothgin to do with what you think either, its meanginless
Its what FACTS and DEFINITIONS make it

if you disagree by all means please post any facts that support you and make your what you "ascribe" too true . . post ONE fact that proves minorities cant be racist, we'll be waiting, thanks!

Xelor said:

Post 17 contains links to several articles that explain the nature of power as it pertains to racism. As I've noted in post 17, the post you quoted to pose the above question, I haven't something new to add to the discussion of whether minorities (particularly in the U.S.) can be racists. To obtain the fullest understanding of how I construe power as it pertains to racism, I suggest you read the articles I linked in post 17. Facilitating readers' obtaining that understanding, among others, is why I hyperlinked those articles.

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Or, instead of blindly parroting other people and expecting me to waste my time trawling through other peoples thoughts for something pertinent, you could summarise your thoughts on the matter and actually engage in a interesting debate.

spud_meister said:

Or, instead of blindly parroting other people and expecting me to waste my time trawling through other peoples thoughts for something pertinent, you could summarise your thoughts on the matter and actually engage in a interesting debate.

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I could, but, as I said, all that I would say has been said in those documents, so I'm not going to. What part of "the topic is both hackneyed and, as presented in the title/OP, too broad for exposition here, most especially given the abridged nature of DP discourse" did you not understand?

Xelor said:

I could, but, as I said, all that I would say has been said in those documents, so I'm not going to. What part of "the topic is both hackneyed and, as presented in the title/OP, too broad for exposition here, most especially given the abridged nature of DP discourse" did you not understand?

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Translation: you cant provide one fact that shows minorities cant be racist . . not one, Got it. lol

Please let us know when you can back up your false claims with one fact, thanks!

Of course..Just look at any prison for a good example of that.Blacks and Hispanics seem to hate each other at least as much as they hate whites...probably more

Xelor said:

No...

• The Undergirding Factor is POWER Toward an Understanding of Prejudice and Racism
• Race, Power and Policy: Dismantling Structural Racism
• Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
• Culture, Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination

I recommend reading the last linked article first. It's good for establishing a discursive framework, regardless of what be one's view re: the title question.

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The contemporary fad of defining racism as necessarily dependent on power employs a disingenuous slight of hand. When one takes a word describing an attitude and motivation, with a common definition and universal application, then they choose to make it bounded so as to be ideologically self-serving, then who do the jargon masters of academia think they are fooling, other than one another?

For example, if I read a historical narrative the someone died with consumption, then I know it means tuberculous. It does not mean bronchiectasis, whooping cough or asthma. Should a post-modern 'critical thinker' decides it means "a bad cough" doesn't change the meaning - no matter how inventive the academic spinner is. And at the very least he/she should have the decency to distinguish the difference with a new term.

Mind you, as an old dinosaur from the era of positive social sciences and paradigm based model building, I don't have a particular empathy to the charlatans who depend on changing the meaning of words in order to make their point. That sort of thing that would not be tolerated by legal or intellectual works of history but seems to be quite acceptable in post-modern loaded narratives.

So yes, minorities can be racists and express racist beliefs.

Xelor said:

Well, I suppose that's an option, but I don't much care what "comes out" here.

The OP-er asked a question. I unequivocally and directly answered it. That's all I care to do re: the specific question the OP-er asked.

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Fair enough

X Factor said:

We have a number of Korean owned businesses in a city that’s population is primarily of Mexican descent. If, for example, the business owners were especially distrusting of Mexicans or Mexicans believed the Koreans to be especially dishonest or something, would that be racist/racism?

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Of course it would be racist.

Of course they can.

Yes.

And they are.

Sasser said:

Of course they can.

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Bingo!

Question...

" Can minorities be racist against other minorities? "

Yeah.

X Factor said:

We have a number of Korean owned businesses in a city that’s population is primarily of Mexican descent. If, for example, the business owners were especially distrusting of Mexicans or Mexicans believed the Koreans to be especially dishonest or something, would that be racist/racism?

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I'm going to agree and amplify. Not only can minorities be racist against other minorities, they are more racist than the majority (at least in this country).

Xelor said:

No...

• The Undergirding Factor is POWER Toward an Understanding of Prejudice and Racism
• Race, Power and Policy: Dismantling Structural Racism
• Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
• Culture, Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination

I recommend reading the last linked article first. It's good for establishing a discursive framework, regardless of what be one's view re: the title question.

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So with our country's political system, we have affirmative action, minority business loans, majority minority districts, and fair housing laws. These policies are all minority privileges (and hindrances to the white majority). What kind of white majority with power would allow these things? Therefore, based on your definition, whites cannot be racist. Thanks for playing.

phattonez said:

I'm going to agree and amplify. Not only can minorities be racist against other minorities, they are more racist than the majority (at least in this country).

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Isn't that a picture from the riots in LA or some such? Where store owners prepared to protect their businesses from rioters that were headed their way? It looks really familiar.....

Kal'Stang said:

Isn't that a picture from the riots in LA or some such? Where store owners prepared to protect their businesses from rioters that were headed their way? It looks really familiar.....

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They're a meme. Rooftop Koreans.

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A good example of minority on minority racism was during the Watts riots when blacks burned Korean businesses.