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........is there some reason why it's not obvious that the one explicitly ignoring the problem is in fact much worse?

The answer is Mr. Cornpop was a bad dude, slight Indian accent, poor kids are just as good as white kids, first mainstream black man who’s clean and articulate, eulogized a former klan member, you ain’t black, racial jungle moron, Joe Biden.

Ignorance donned by witnesses and active perpetrators is bliss, whereas the overly concerned are the true monsters on Planet 1984,,

Because the one who sees class and cultural prejudice and calls it racism is misleading others.

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Because the one who sees class and cultural prejudice and calls it racism is misleading others."

Because racism is simply a reaction to phenotype as opposed to to "class and cultural prejudice"?
Class? Explain.

Certainly. Most artifacts that are deemed racist, or a discrimination based on the degree of skin color, are demonstrably prejudices actually based on class and cultural differences. Those are where the fire is burning. I would go so far as to say that, shades of color are the least divisive of the three.

What on class and cultural differences?

And no, that's nonsense. I'm speaking from direct personal experience here, as in having lived through it based simply on skin tone and place of parental origin name highlighting how utterly stupid people can love to be, particularly when it comes to hate.

I am genuinely saddened to hear of your life experience. I can empathize, as I too have suffered discrimination. I pray you can overcome it. 55ufpo.jpg (click to show)

Following your logic, everything is on fire. (But I suppose that is exactly the narrative you are going for.)

...everywhere.

If you want to continue dialectic... then, back to the original meme: How would you answer the question if said reverse discrimination instead of racism? I'm interested to hear if that substitution would reverse your choice. (And the original question was see, not ignore.)

Reverse discrimination is one of my favourite mistakes that you guys keep making: simultaneously acknowledging that there IS an institutional power differential and at the exact same time expecting everyone to assign equal value despite said differential for the purposes of your argument. It is funny as hell and for some reason, none of you have noticed this.

But I agree. If and where it exists, institutions should cease their racial discrimination (there is only one race after all). But it is much harder to to dismantle or de-systemize discrimination of class, culture, age, gender, etc. (I assume we can agree on that). From your answer, I will take it that the second question is the one you chose for reverse discrimination. You keep telling me what others think or should think. I just wanted to hear what you thought.

See, you said the words "I agree" but the rest of your comment made no indication whatsoever that you understood what you were agreeing with.