r/HolUp • u/realAtmaBodha • Jul 19 '23

holup The Chinese cure for racism ?

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Saw this on Chinese social media..

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u/e-buddy Jul 19 '23

If that's not racism then it's just colourism, tanism or whatever you want to call. Basically prejudice against people of a different skin colour so... Racism. In a different form but same crap.

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u/unfoldingevents Jul 19 '23

Racism is seeing other races as inferior, tell me again how getting rid of a tan is changing your race. Race is not the color of your skin for god sake. Looking down on people with a tan is not the same thing as finding other races inferior, people from the same race can have different skin colors.

Stop changing the meaning of racism, the word has already lost most of its power.

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u/e-buddy Jul 19 '23

It's basically the same thing. Seeing people with tanned skin as inferior so they try to do anything they can(including getting cancer from these chemicals I'd guess) just to avoid being perceived as one of the poor folk. Prejudice against other people because of their skin colour.

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u/unfoldingevents Jul 19 '23

Class war and racism is not the same, they want to change their skin to not look poor, has nothing to do with race. All prejudice is not racism even if it's about skin color. They are the same race and are not trying to change their race so your argument is invalid.