• blahsay@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That’s a racial generalisation…otherwise known as racism.

    The thing they’re complaining about in the comic…

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      is “racial generalization” your only touch point for what racism is

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      6 months ago

      But it is true that these kinds of unintentionally racist differences in commentary are often done by white people. Not all white people but a large enough subsection of that population to become a general problem.

      That’s what the comic is pointing out.

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        6 months ago

        Too many people are wildly overanalyzing this comic or getting needlessly insulted by it. I think your interpretation is the correct one.

        Casual, unintentional racism is more of a problem than people generally realize, because they’re not even conscious of it. Racism doesn’t always show itself in overt acts of hatred or discrimination. Sometimes, a well-meaning person can say or do hurtful, insulting things because of racist assumptions they don’t know they’re making.

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      6 months ago

      Let’s pretend it doesn’t exist. Surely that’s less racist than acknowledging the truth!

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      6 months ago

      We must all be missing the “All white people are like this” sign you must’ve found in the comic 🤪

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        6 months ago

        I get what you’re saying, but that’s a bad argument. If a racist artist drew a black person with a bone through their nose, tats on their face, with a crack pipe in one hand and a bucket of KFC in the other, they can’t hide behind “where does my art say ‘All black people are like this’?”