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people added "reversism" to things like descimination & racism just because it's harder for them to recognize it when it's the other way around (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh, shit! Receipts!

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