colonized world

lol

I can’t imagine the mindset of someone so divorced from reality. It must be like living in a cult.

How did you come to your faith?

Guess you won’t grow up then. Sad.

Descriptions of groups of people are not 100% binding to all members of that group. They are broad generalities.

Same thing.

“Race isn’t real” provides cover for less blatant forms of racism, especially institutional bias. Also, it’s an obviously stupid philosophy.

K

It’s ok, one day you’ll grow up and realize how cringe it is to pretend to not understand something just so you can do a “well ACKSHUALLY”

Justice boner activated.

Phrasing

I think African American is one of those terms that (a) is super American-centric and (b) isn’t something everyone would call themselves.

That’s correct, but if I just said “Black” then all the Europeans would come flooding in talking about their African coworkers. I’m specifically asking about the majority of black people in the US who are descended from slaves.

I thought the last of you “race isn’t real lalala if I don’t acknowledge it it’s not real” people got shamed into silence decades ago.

Splitting hairs

Most white people from the same neighborhoods will have mostly similar cultures

Absolutely not true!

You’re the first one in the thread lol

Well that’s a ridiculous take. So it becomes impossible to discuss culture?

Black people from Chicago, St Louis, and Oakland have cultural similarities. If you refuse to acknowledge that, you’ve taken “I don’t see race” so far you’ve looped back around to racism. This is exactly what I was getting at with the question.

Well that’s a ridiculous take. So it becomes impossible to discuss culture?

Black people from Chicago, St Louis, and Oakland have cultural similarities. If you refuse to acknowledge that, you’ve taken “I don’t see race” so far you’ve looped back around to racism. This is exactly what I was getting at with the question.

It doesn’t get harder, it just gets more general. Statements made about groups are not intended to be universally applicable to every single member of that group, just generally applicable.

Depends on how you slice em. A white person from Minnesota is very different from a white person in NYC, but it’s often useful to group both of them as white to contrast with, say, Asian. In the same sense, Asian can mean Chinese, and Chinese can mean Taiwanese, etc

Grouping people based on similarities is not inherently bad.

I’ve always had the suspicion that Detroit has really cleaned up since the early 2000s and is underrated in the national narrative. Is that true?

I like living in cold places, so I might look into buying a house there one day.

Generally speaking, Black people prefer to be called Black. I’ve had a few discussions over the years and Black works best because it’s not some made up white guilt term (African-American), and is capitalized in the same way that a nationality would be (Italian, Filipino).

Anyone who casually refers to Black people as “African-American” would probably answer “no” to this question. But I worded it that way to exclude a horde of Europeans talking about their coworkers who emigrated from Africa. Black descendents of enslaved Africans have a unique culture, and that’s who I was asking about.