Race doesn't bother me or negatively affect me. Talking about it challenges my worldview and hurts my feelings! So just stop bringing it up, I think you just want to fight me for no reason.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to say the same thing but with a lot more words.

The oatmeal did a comic that's sort of on this topic that I think about a lot now: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

I think this is why our future is looking grim. We'll never have a star trek utopia until this behavior, which is pretty fundamentally baked into our biology, is addressed somehow.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Closest thing I find can help is to underline in my own words (so WITHOUT just quoting "first they came for...") that whatever the unfair treatment is, some form of it will eventually creep up the hierarchy more and more, the longer it is tolerated. Individualism has made it so many people think of themselves and their immediate family only.

[–] asg101@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Criticism of racism in the USA goes to the very fundamental nature and founding principles of that country. Their constitution enshrined racism and oligarchy from the very beginning, their country was founded on genocide and grown through slavery abd imperialism. Talking badly about racism impugnes their very soul.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Controversial opinion time: no matter your stance on DEI, it was doomed from the start, because it's too easy to be perceived as unfair discrimination.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Controversial opinion time: no matter your stance on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, it was doomed from the start, because it’s too easy to be perceived as unfair discrimination.

I get people not knowing what DEI stands for (because all they see is DEI this and DEI that), but when you spell out the words it sure makes that opinion sound a bit dumb, doesn't it? I recommend anyone everywhere to correct people complaining about DEI do exactly this.

Edited to be a bit less inflammatory than I needed to be...

[–] yax@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unpopular opinion (at least in the USA I guess): if you talk about human "races", you're racist.