• theolodis@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Wait, your point is that it’s racist to say that americans of european descent eat less rice? Brother you need to touch grass asap.

    Racism is systemic by nature, you can’t be racist towards white people in a majority white country. Also it’s really unclear to me how you can assume that eating less rice is supposedly something bad?

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      5 days ago

      Racism is systemic by nature, you can’t be racist towards white people in a majority white country.

      a bit of nuisance: you can’t be racist against whites in a white supremacist society.

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      5 days ago

      Okay so that’s not what I said at all, but ignore that because:

      you can’t be racist towards white people in a majority white country.

      There is just no point in continuing this discussion if you seriously think this, yikes.

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        5 days ago

        Just so we’re clear, what does racism mean to you? What are the consequences of racism against you, a white person, and what are the consequences of racism against, let’s say a black person, in the USA?

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          5 days ago

          Nah man, I was serious, I’m not doing this with you. Your argument is flawed to where it could be easily used to justify Apartheid and I’m just. I don’t have the patience to deal with educating someone that doesn’t understand that “saying everyone of a certain descent behaves some way” is inherently racist. Sorry, but no.

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            5 days ago

            Ok my guy, you really need to go out some more. And maybe read. Because it’s a fact that asian countries lead the world rice consumption, followed by mostly south american and african countries. Just look up rice consumption by country, or if you prefer look it up per capita. (https://worldostats.com/country-stats/rice-consumption-per-capita-by-country-2025-rankings/)

            Now having established this fact (not a feeling, not racism, just a fact about rice consumption), and then considering that the USA has a considerable population of people originating from those countries, the conclusion that the majority of rice domestically consumed in the US is being consumed mostly by people of asian (and maybe south american) descent is not raciat, but simply supported by facts.

            But reading what you write I assume that you are a white american of european descent, that does just like to feel offended.

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              5 days ago

              Oh hey, trying to bait someone into engaging with your bonkers arguments by repeatedly insulting them, that’s a great look.

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                5 days ago

                Brother you’re engaging for over an hour already, you’re just ignoring the argument and building straw men instead of admitting that you were clueless (or provide any factual evidence)

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                  5 days ago

                  Perhaps you could take this as an opportunity to reflect on your earlier statement and try to understand why people might view it as problematic, instead of lashing out and insisting you did nothing wrong?

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                    5 days ago

                    If you’re the one seeing racism in any statement, you might want to reflect yourself. Yes, my initial statement wasn’t elaborated in the way it should have, and maybe I didn’t expect the level of american centric education I’ve found here, because as somebody that’s been around in this world it is just blatantly obvious to me that different regions have different food preferences, and that this is not related to race, but culture.

                    Also, if you can spare that little time, I am really, honestly, interested in how you think that not believing in racism against white people does let me justify apartheid. Because Apartheid is usually a construct white people use to separate themselves from other “races”, as seen in the US, South Africa and Palestine.

                    I’d also like to add that my replies contained no insults (feel free to point them out to me), so if you felt insulted it’s most likely because you feel exposed.