• Kleinbonum@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    There’s also such a thing as systemic racism that is very easy to ignore of you’re not affected.

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      Changing the acceptable terminology every decade is never going desegregate a neighborhood, or shrink demographic wealth disparities, or improve health outcomes, etc. I think it’s mostly a distraction so people can feel like they’re doing something.

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        1 year ago

        Silver bullet fallacy: because something won’t, on its own, turn the world into a paradise, it has no value and shouldn’t be done.

        No.

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        1 year ago

        Why are we no longer referring to people as “idiots” and “retards” and “cripples?”

        Is that also just a distraction so that people can feel like they’re doing something? Are you, personally, just sticking with the old terminology?

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          I use whatever terminology is current, because, like I said, it basically makes no difference. Why upset people for no reason?