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Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy? (lemm.ee)
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I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

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[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you're saying that what the Jews were victim of during WW2 wasn't racism? Because they certainly were white!

How about the Irish? The deportation of Acadians? French Canadians seeing their language becoming illegal to teach in Manitoba? The Yugoslav wars?

By your logic it's also impossible to be racist towards Chinese and Japanese because man, let me tell you, they can be racist as fuck towards everyone else and they were the ones in power on their side of the world for centuries!

Racism has a definition and it's a bad thing no matter who the victim is.

[โ€“] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

European Jews were not considered white before and during WW2. Whiteness has always changed with whatever we needed it to be for political reasons. The Irish were not considered white. In South Africa during Apartheid, a Japanese national was forbidden by a bus driver from entering a whites-only bus because the driver thought he was Chinese. The man sued and won against the driver as the Japanese were considered white and allowed to board segregated buses.