• Solumbran@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      10 hours ago

      I think pretty much everybody can agree that being of a certain race gives you a lot more leeway and defense against accusations of racism against that race. It would take an extremely radical statement to go beyond that.

      … at least, that’s what my black friends tell me when they call each other ‘nigga’.

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        5 hours ago

        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.