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Dog Whistle Posted on the Road (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I knew some pretty racist kids growing up

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kids are taught racism. They don't know any better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In my school system, we were also taught that racism was wrong and why. There were a few kids in high school who did not care about those lessons.

[–] QuantumSparkles 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair children are going to internalize what’s taught in their household by their parents and family members far more easily than what’s in school, especially when those teachings are reinforced by their peers, friends, authority figures, local culture…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't buy the narrative that kids can't be assholes too. When does it become fair to blame someone for their views? On their 18th birthday when they become a real human?

[–] naught 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They share an increasing portion of the blame until they are about 25ish and have their whole brain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay, what if you have a high schooler who is racist and remains racist throughout their life? Were they to blame in highschool or only when they become 25? I ask because some of the people I went to highschool who seemed shitty are still shitty.

[–] naught 3 points 8 months ago

I dunno it's realistically a case by case thing with a trillion shades of gray. Some people really just never had a chance whether they are 18 or 55 but they always bear some varying degree of blame for their shittiness

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my school system, we were also taught that racism was wrong and why.

So why are you living in a fundamentally white supremacist society, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can you just say what you're driving at? I'm obviously saying that people rejected this teaching so your statement is pretty confusing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Trying to have a discussion with masquenox is like bashing your head against a stubborn, obtuse brick wall, without the joy. They are just a giant time-suck contrarian that will argue everything in bad faith. Best to ignore if you value your sanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for that. Honestly I kind of got that from the two replies I read lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can you just say what you’re driving at?

What I'm driving at is that I don't think your school really taught you anything about white supremacism - they merely taught you enough about it so that they (and you) can pretend that they did.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that none of your teachers actually took any time to explain to you what "white" even is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Assume away. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

So they didn't?

Did you know?