Think, talk, repeat until you reach a conclusion.

“Americans” are not an ethnicity. Talking about the culture of a country is nothing similar to attaching innate characteristics to a person based on origin/skin color/etc.

This does not require ethnicity at all.

If someone is discriminated because of an ethnicity they don’t actually have (let’s say a Mexican being targeted as an “arab”) should they not get compensation ?

According to your logic, you need ethnicity to give compensation which means that you require victims to have a specific ethnicity to be recognised, but it is absurd. What makes victims victims is what they went through, not the reason they suffered abuse.

And this doesn’t even apply to colonization as in this case most of the times the former colony is now a country, and as such you can give compensation to the country and its citizens, no ethnicity required.

Either way, ethnicity is not needed.

I think that being a colonizer is not something a government should be. So yes, definitely, such a treaty is bad.

A government should be treating people as equally as possible. Ethnicity only brings unnecessary division.

Well, american culture making such a big deal about ethnicity even when “positive” did influence a lot.

I never understood why the N word is racist because of history, but then being black makes it fine to say. It’s still linked to a racist background, but it seems like americans consider that minorities can never be or do anything racist.

And I mean, in 99% of cases the concept of ethnicity is (or at least is used in a way that is) purely racist. Apart from a few studies on genetic specificities, it has no purpose at all, and definitely no purpose in daily lives and governments.

What’s weird is that no one with a sane mind would say that a woman saying “women are bitches and shouldn’t be able to work” isn’t misogynistic, but when it comes to racism people are making up exceptions left and right.

If you focus on ethnicity, chances are you are racist, no matter the justification you put behind it.

Just imagine someone like you talking with you. How does it work?

I can’t even imagine that it would last more than two messages. It’s not a conversation if only one person is talking.

Seeking help is definitely the way to go as others have pointed out.

If you don’t care about others feeling hurt, well then just think about it rationally: you probably don’t like getting hurt, so you can understand that they don’t either and trying not to hurt others generally makes the world easier for everyone.

Now I would also say that aside of that, you should apologize to people you hurt. Not specifically expecting them to forgive you, but because it also logically makes more sense as it might make them feel less bad about your behaviour.

I would overall try to think about things more rationally than emotionally because it does look like your emotions are your main source of problem right now, and for example thinking that hurting people is going to make them improve is absurd.

And thinking rationally would let you realize what behaviors are not okay, and let you apologize/warn people about it even if you fail to control yourself. While people would still completely be entitled to distancing themselves from you if your behaviour hurts them, it might at least give them some insight that allows them to get less hurt. And once again, less hurt is generally positive.

This quote is full of shit though.

Yep, because the only way to teach kids is through physical abuse apparently.

Fascism implies hate speech, and that’s what the “right” is all about in most countries right now.

You can consider the nazi point of view (do you really need to though?) without defending nazis’ right to spew their bullshit.

And let’s face it, even if lemmy was 100% leftists, the rest of the world is fascist as fuck so it’ll never be an echo chamber.

Enlightened centrist?

The cult of… Anti-nazis?

Genius.

France supports pedos and rapists openly so not the brightest example.

It’s a drawing, not a statistical representation of the population. How do you even know it’s not the same guy?

Most americans maybe, I’ve never seen this idea anywhere else.

And funnily enough people don’t have the same logic with, for example, sexism.

You implied that being Chinese is a counterpoint to people calling you racist. That’s what I was commenting on.

Whether what you said to those people was racist or not is out of the point. I was criticizing the fact that you consider that being Chinese would prevent you from being racist, which is absurd.

You can say racist stuff about a group whether you belong in the group or not.

What is this absurdity of thinking that you get a free pass to say crap?

“Black people should have remained slaves. But it’s ok, I can say it because I’m black”

Nonsense.

Wow, show that you are a far right extremist without saying that you are a far right extremist

But you can subvert expectations without propagating rape culture. And I can’t find something that does, to be funny. Just like I can’t like racist jokes and similar.