an unfortunate necessity brought on by a bunch of racist

we were going in a good direction 10 or so years ago

we went way backwards in the last like 4

i remember when token characters were racist

now its racist not to have token characters

identitarianism is a method of power politics. in the past it was used by the callous and powerful to opress the weak, now its used by the weak and nihilistic to take power from the powerful and stupid

you always had a concept of "black culture" or "italian culture" or "mexican culture". Don't know, probably seems fine with you, but as a foreigner, it disturbs me greatly and most mono-ethnical countries see it as mean to say the least

people have a hard time getting over race

im not sure its nessicary to do so, but if you dont it becomes imposible to be multiethnic

at a young age people know race, then even when you grow to try and ignore race theres the cliff face delimma. a black man and a white man hanging from a cliff, who do you save?

interesting that you see not forcing immigrates to entirely erase their history to be considered American as "racist"

i think there is too much focus on the differences and not enough on what should be the unifying pieces and what doesn't matter

does nosoul think that?

i dont remember him saything that

i mean, if you don't have a concept for it, it means you can't have it. if you have something, generally you give it a name

no, all I'm saying if somebody wants to be an American, that's what one is. All I said is that I find it racist to distinguish between Americans ethnicly.

what does the word racist mean?

well i agree then, we focus too much on the differences

ironically one of my favorite comedians has a joke he had to go the middle east to finally be called american and not Latino

can i not be seen?

im typing but it seems like no ones reacting to what im saying

you need to tag/address the person you're asking Arch

no one else here is tag/addressing people

I am

the last time you tagged someone was an hour ago

what do you mean? i responded to your previous comment, not the word racist one because i was responding to nosoul

to someone not even here

I addressed you 4 lines ago

Arch is going insane

anyway, what does the word racist mean?

are you asking me or Granade?

im asking anyone

yes, i think

racist
ˈreɪsɪst/
noun
noun: racist; plural noun: racists

1.
a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

i beleive racial superiority covers the latter of that defintion but i agree with that definition. though webster has a different interpriation https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

so how is it racist to think that people joining your country need to conform to your values?

The context I used racist as was the prejudice bit

if racism is to show or feel discrimination or prejudice against people of other races (or lets expand that to ethnicitys to cover just a general difference for outsiders (though that could be consitered xenophobia too)) how is expecting other people living within your country regardless of where they come from to meet the standards of values that you want the people you live with to express?

Arch, you distinguish between americans on the basis of skin color. This is all I meant. I find it grose. Most folks I'm friends with that come from a mono-ethnical state find it grose. We have people of color here and there and we don't give a rat's ass about it. I don't know how to make my point any clearer

unfortunately we dont own that anymore

i don't think most people really give a rats ass about it in America