[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the U.S. this is a controversial topic online because it centers around the idea of privilege. One of the progressive viewpoints around race is CRT (critical race theory). That argues that throughout history white people have created and benefitted from a system that oppresses other races and gives themselves advantages. In my opinion that's not very debatable. That being said I personally believe in the current day that social classes and education levels are what should be looked at more but race is a large part of the discussion. CRT is very popular with the very vocal left leaning Twitter folks and internet users.

Someone who is a proponent of CRT would argue that you can't be racist against the "dominant" (not the word in really lookin for) race within a state/country. An easy example of this is the lack of any kind of word that equates to a racial slur for white people. There really isn't one, because due to power dynamics throughout Americas history there hasn't been a time where white people were the ones being persecuted against and marginalized (which is where slurs and race based insults come from generally).

Where this falls apart is that even the idea of "whiteness" has changed over the last 150 years. For a long time the Irsh, Italians, Eastern Europeans (who would now just be considered white) did have a lot of persecution against them and there was significant "racial" bias against them. In reality those immigrants had much more in common with other poor people (regardless of race). But again, an Italian immigrant still usually had it better than a black person in many parts of the country (in terms of how they were viewed by most of society).

TLDR: Can't be racist against white people because they are the ones that "run" the system and hold the power in society. I don't agree with this 100% but get the merits of the argument.

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Free Talk Friday (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Cutting down the frequency of these a bit, think I'll aim for a few times a week.

Happy Friday!!

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Free Talk 6.14 (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Had a decent amount of interaction yesterday so I'm keeping it going!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine thinking so much of yourself that you need to use AI to release a new song in this manner. It's wild.

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Freetalk 6.13 (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey all, figured I'd start doing a free talk thread if people are interested. I had one back on Reddit that I was in and it's fun to just post whatever thoughts your having throughout the day (especially when work is boring).

I'm sure it'll take some time to get going, and if there's no interest I won't spam. Just figured I'd see how it goes!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol maybe in a smaller, more moderated space we can see a difference?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is questionable though in most states in the US atleast. Not sure how someone who lives a 20 minute drive from the nearest town in the middle of nowhere is supposed to ride a bike around. The whole world isn't urbanized

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think so too. Haven't been able to look up outside communities

rigo

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