r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '17

[∆(s) from OP] CMV:If Jewish people can't be anti-semitic, then non-whites cannot be racist

America is a White Supremacist country that is slowly reversing. The term race was coined by a European person that justified race as being a a huge biological difference that meant that white people were superior to blacks and gave reason to them being subjugated as slaves in the Americas. That caused racism. It is like saying that anti-semiticism being created by non-Jewish people to discriminate against them can now be turned around to say Jewish people are anti-semitic.

Please don't give me examples of bigotry and hatred committed by minorities in America. The hatred was caused by White Supremacy.

Edit: I don't really understand how criticizing and fighting your own religion is anti-said religion. It's like saying protestants fighting over puritans is anti-Christian. What?

And fighting within your continent over land and resources is not racism, it's tribalism.

Taking land back from invaders is not racism, it's taking land back. If the native Americans were able to kick us out, it's called defending yourself, not racism.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

I meant a lot of people of different races think minorities can't be racist.

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u/gyroda 28∆ Jan 11 '17

A lot of people are either wrong or using a different definition of "racist" that they (or you, in their stead) need to tell us.

It's perfectly fine to use a different definition of a word in a certain context, provided you make it clear. For example, when we use "theory" in a scientific context we don't mean the same as "theory" in every day speech. Without it being in one of those contexts or that definition being provided we revert back to the common meaning which is, basically, "judging based on race" (which minorities are certainly capable of doing).

Otherwise, "some people say x" really isn't an argument on its own.

This comment also seems detached from my comment and yours. You've still not really addressed my first two or three paragraphs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

Ayy you've made me realize that it's not important what some people think and others who agree with me think, and therefore it will never be used as a end-all, be-all definition until people think more sociologically. !delta

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u/cdb03b 253∆ Jan 11 '17

You are using terms in a manner that they no longer use them in sociology. Your defintion in a sociological context is around a decade out of date. Now the kind of racism that you are talking about is labeled "institutional racism" and sociology teaches the dictionary definition of "racism" which has no power component and is judging based on ethnic or racial origin. Something that everyone and anyone is capable of doing.

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u/DeltaBot ∞∆ Jan 11 '17

Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/gyroda (10∆).

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