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Gormur wrote:Race is a construct of the government. I admit I don't like being called white so I put other on forms.
Gormur wrote: I don't want people calling me names and spreading hatred
Gormur wrote:I don't know what you mean by citizenship. Are you talking about owning property? Anyone can do that as far as my knowledge
Gormur wrote:As for being white, it's racist too because it assumes a unified culture
It's still symbolic to me. For example, I know in some countries just being born there doesn't make you an automatic citizenlinguoboy wrote:Gormur wrote:I don't know what you mean by citizenship. Are you talking about owning property? Anyone can do that as far as my knowledge
No, I mean citizenship. This is 100% a legal construct created by the modern nation-state. Yet the concrete impact of being granted or denied citizenship of one type of another has a tremendous impact on an individual's life--and not just in their interactions with the State but with everyone.Gormur wrote:As for being white, it's racist too because it assumes a unified culture
Yeah, no it doesn't. All it assumes is that a certain segment of the population has a particular range of daily life experiences because of their perceived membership in a certain socially-defined category. It no more "assumes a unified culture" than words like "female", "middle-class", or "teenager" do.
I still don't get where "hate-mongering" comes into this. This is just a fact about persons, like their eye colour or their marital status.
Gormur wrote:It's still symbolic to me. For example, I know in some countries just being born there doesn't make you an automatic citizen
I realize that isn't even what you're talking about but I find it relevant when thinking about what citizenship means. It has no meaning to me, but that's okay.
Gormur wrote:As to your explanation it sounds like racism although I'm no expert. I guess I'll just assume it's to do with some kind of statistics or studies for academia
It has no meaning to me because I don't understand what it means. To be a citizen of a country just looks like a political map in my eyeslinguoboy wrote:Gormur wrote:It's still symbolic to me. For example, I know in some countries just being born there doesn't make you an automatic citizen
I realize that isn't even what you're talking about but I find it relevant when thinking about what citizenship means. It has no meaning to me, but that's okay.
It definitely has meaning to you, whether you realise it or not. Just ask a deportee.Gormur wrote:As to your explanation it sounds like racism although I'm no expert. I guess I'll just assume it's to do with some kind of statistics or studies for academia
I suppose if you define "racism" as "recognising the existence of a category called 'race'". That is one definition, but it's one hardly anyone ever uses. For most people, "racism" means something more, generally some form of widespread discrimination based on the category of race. Just being asked to state your race doesn't discriminate against you in any way. I don't think you need to be a statistician or academic to understand that.
Gormur wrote:It has no meaning to me because I don't understand what it means. To be a citizen of a country just looks like a political map in my eyes
Gormur wrote:I don't identify as white. Please don't hate me or call me names
Gormur wrote:Racism is mind control. Plain and simple. There's no reason for it. It's not based on anything scientific
Gormur wrote:That's why I don't identify as American. All these people know what racism is but I don't. I've met skinheads and I still don't get it. It's all brainwashing
Gormur wrote:What's the value in criminal behavior?
Gormur wrote:Sure we can say slavery is racist but then African countries and Ireland would have racism then, and we can't have that muddying up our pristine histories, can we?
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