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1. Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)] (lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2017 11:33:52 EST Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)]
   RE: https://pleroma.soykaf.com/notice/3600051
   
   False. Social power is mostly situational. Thus, blacks can be racists like anyone else, as my mixed-race son and nephews would be quick to tell you about a certain family member who oppressed them for years.
   
   What you're referring to is "institutionalized racism" ... where the most powerful group in society collectively exercises racism against less powerful groups. But to say that an individual or group of individuals doing the same things for the same reasons is or isn't racist based on whether the person/people committing the acts is part of the majority group or a minority group is not just wrong, it is EVIL, as it justifies racist acts by members of minority groups.
   
   I needed to state that, but I do not want to be drawn into any of these multi-day arguments and name-calling. (Yes, I had to take "Race and Racism" at my university. Yes, they told us the same thing about power. But I've had decades of observing racists up close and personal inside my family. Black racism, Hispanic racism, [insert minority ethnic group here] racism exist and are just as evil as White racism or [insert majority ethnic group here] racism.)
   1. Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)] (lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2017 11:35:46 EST Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)]

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      Funny thing. I had to take "Perspectives on Gender" ... they taught me that everything wrong with the world was my fault as a straight male. Then I had to take "Race and Racism" and I learned that it wasn't really my fault because I'm a Black male.
      
      Even on the same campus, they can't get their stories straight.