Notices by Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io)

@thepoliticalcat When I first joined the fediverse I learnt that the instance I initially joined prohibits discussion of racism because apparently, talking about racism that minorities face is racist.

Equating minorities complaining about bad treatment from majority race with the majority race systematically oppressing minorities is something I’ve seen majorities pull over and over again, even among those who profess to be liberals.

@thepoliticalcat (I wrote something about it here, even though the setting is in the US, it’s very much motivated by stuff I hear everyday in my own country:)

https://rakyatbiasa.blog/we-are-all-racists

@thepoliticalcat Yep systematic racism is the real problem. Of course it comes with racists getting too much power, so the problem still stems from “ordinary” racism, but racism is so widespread that the real solution is fixing the laws so that personal animosity against other races cannot be turned into political will. I always told people that Hitler’s racism is actually pretty banal and the real reason he was able to do what he did was because he was given the power to do so.

Meanwhile in Singapore:

The replies are coping hard:

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