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  • @[email protected]
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    12 days ago

    Please calm down. I like it when we have words to describe specific concepts, and it seemed like the previous poster was saying that a word to describe this specific phenomenon was unnecessary because we already have the word to describe a broader phenomenon.

    It’s like “all ships are boats but not all boats are ships.”

    When someone starts talking about race science, I don’t think it’s a problem to call it race pseudoscience. I think it’s more specific than just calling it racism. That’s it. That’s my whole point. I don’t know why it’s controversial here.

    • @[email protected]M
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      72 days ago

      Please calm down.

      for some reason this has gotten people very worked up

      Seriously I don’t know what I said that is so controversial or hard to understand.

      I don’t know why it’s controversial here.

      imagine coming into a conversation with people you don’t fucking know, taking a swing and a miss at one of them, and then telling the other parties in the conversation that they need to calm down — about racism.

      the rest of your horseshit post is just you restating your original point. we fucking got it. and since you missed ours, here it is one more time:

      race science isn’t real. we’re under no obligation to use terms invented by racists that describe nothing. if we’re feeling particularly categorical about our racists on a given day, or pointing out that one is using the guise of race science? sure, use the term if you want.

      tone policing people who want to call a racist a racist ain’t fucking it. what in the fuck do you think you added to this conversation? what does anyone gain from your sage advice that “X is Y but Y isn’t X” when the other poster didn’t say that Y is X but instead that Y doesn’t exist?

      so yeah no I’m not calm, go fuck yourself. we don’t need anyone tone policing conversations about racism in favor of the god damn racists