I think I’ll just call it decrimination, because it can happen to anyone regardless of who they are… these extra words just makes matters unnecessarily confusing

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        81·
        6 months ago

        Then yeah, discrimination is discrimination.

        It’s about how one person treats another.

        But when people talk about racism, they’re talking about how society treats a person based on their race.

        Still no reverse, but different races are treated differently by the same society. So racism against an Asian, someone Black, and someone European would all be different in the same society. It’s all bad, but rarely all equally as bad.

        There is “institutional racism” and that is how the group in power treats people outside of their race. That’s the only time “reverse” needs added. But that’s when other races believe it’s racial when most of the time it’s about wealth.

        “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

        https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

        LBJ wasn’t saying that as a plan, he was commenting on why Republicans were latching on to racism.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
          42·
          6 months ago

          Lol, quoting LBJ about racism…what a racist bastard.

          At a time when 80% of Republicans in congress voted for the civil rights acts, and only 40% of Democrats did.

          And LBJ only signed them because he was backed into a corner.

          “Reverse racism” is never correct. Racism isn’t one-way.

          • spujb@lemmy.cafe
            31·
            6 months ago

            Pretty problematic comment there bud let’s work through it.

            Lol, quoting LBJ about racism…what a racist bastard.

            Ok, so he was not great before his presidency, true, but what part of that antiracist quote do you disagree with? It’s scary that you would disagree.

            At a time when 80% of Republicans in congress voted for the civil rights acts, and only 40% of Democrats did.

            True.

            And LBJ only signed them because he was backed into a corner.

            False. This one is just downright misinformation. 😳😬😳 Per Wikipedia, “In his first address to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, “No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy’s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.”[26]” Bro wanted this act passed, call it bad faith, whatever, but “backed into a corner” is not it.

            “Reverse racism” is never correct.

            Agree I guess, but this term is really poorly defined across contexts so don’t quote me on this

            Racism isn’t one-way.

            Only true if you utterly and intentionally ignore institutional racism. Institutional racism is one-way. Other comments here have expressed this key distinction better than I could. So I’ll leave it there.

            • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
              3·
              6 months ago

              Oh, shit! Receipts!

              (This comment is intended to be humorous, but I do appreciate the correction of bad information.)

        • spujb@lemmy.cafe
          11·
          6 months ago

          The internet needs more people like you to explain what institutional racism is. Plenty of well meaning privelaged folk who just don’t get it and stick their feet in their mouths because of it. Thank ya 👍