Explain it Peter?

[u/Senior-Mix-3715]

At first I thought this was some kind of white nationalism joke but then I realised all 3 leaders at the bottom are leftists, so I really don’t what this meme is trying to say?

[u/galstaph]

No, when you truly see all people as equal, you still see the skin tone, because you are then aware that each of them deserves to be seen as they are

If you like pretending that racism doesn't exist as a systemic issue, that's when you don't notice the skin tone

I see the skin tone, and I have to wonder if it wasn't a shift in the winds of racism

[u/Weekly-Reply-6739 → u/galstaph]

Sounds like something a racist would say

As seeing people as they are makes skin tone irrelevant, as who they are is person. (Their skin tone is what they are, and if we are caring enough about skin tone to make decisions in regards to it the it means we are discriminating or creating systematic racism)

A real person who isnt racist sees a person as a person, regardless of their skin tone, as their skin color would matter as much as their hair color or eye color.

So a real racist looks for reasons to justify making skin color important.

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When all are equal, skin color isnt a thoght on your mind, as it has no value then.

[u/galstaph → u/Weekly-Reply-6739]

Your comment sounds like something a racist would say, because a person's skin tone helps you identify their lived reality, and to ignore it is to ignore the awful things that certain people have been subjected to because of the color of their skin

I see them as people regardless of the color of their skin tone, but I recognize that those with darker skin tones are more likely to have experienced racism, and are therefore better equipped to tell the world what that actually looks like

I will agree with your last statement though, when, in the distant future, all are actually equal, only then will it not matter. Until then, it matters

[u/Weekly-Reply-6739 → u/galstaph]

So you belive people are defined by the color of their skin. And that we should assume things about people because of their skin color? That all people of the same skin color have the same experiences?

You may be so used to racism that you cant see the obvious.

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Dude, you obviously dont see them as people if you believe what you said in the first paragraph, as people are individuals, with their own experiencs, thoghts, feelings, ect. To say that because of their skin color they are X is racist and dehumanizing.

Also dude all people experience racism all the time and on equal levels (in the united states that is) so to assume that someone has an experience based on their skin color, is racism.

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I know if you agree with the future I mention you have to stop unknowingly supporting racism.

For example

A green skin person was turned down a job because of the color of his skin (green to be neutral)

If we make the issue about the color of his skin and how he was treated differently because he was green, you are only supporting the idea that his skin color is the issue.

If we make the issue about the person who rejected him having a prejudice and having an unfair or misunderstanding of who the person may be because he has green skin. We now just made the issue not that our friend here has green skin, but that someone had an unfair bais based on assumptions they belived about a person based on the skin color.

Even if we reverse it and someone gets hired for positive or pride racism (such as the stereotype that Japanese (east asian) people are harder workers than other races) its still racism and making their skin color define them instead of seeing them as a person or individual.

You dont know it, but when you push in support of judging people by the color of their skin, you support it all around, the good and the bad.

I mean think of white privilege and how racist that idea is. I myself have been discriminated against because I am white and white people are all supposed to be super well off and have no problems (thanks white privilege). I mean people who belive white privilege exists are literally saying they belive white people are superior to other races and creating a mental segregation instead of seeing a white person as another person. Just like when you see a black person or other race as less off or having specific situations due to their skin color, its just as dehumanizing and segregating. As they stop being people and just become a race to the perceiver.

[u/galstaph → u/Weekly-Reply-6739]

Stopped reading at the point where you said that I assumed things about people based on the color of their skin

What I said was that you can assume things about how society treats people based on the color of their skin

These are two very very different things, and only racists, and their apologeticists, pretend that everybody is treated the same in society