What morality lies in bigotry? None. What morals exist in anti-bigotry? Every single one of them. When we experience bigotry, we know it’s wrong. To me, morality and bigotry are two opposites, and bigotry is wrong in both sense of the word, that is, as something illogical and immoral. We never say a racist man is moral, but is anti-racism moral in word or deed? Communists don’t just oppose racism in ideology; we act against it. Ours is a political movement, a fight against oppression. Thus, the answer is self-evident: No, we can’t be racist against whites. By virtue of our anti-racism being a political movement based on the liberation of the oppressed races, whites, as a race, are excluded from this anti-racism. When liberals claim “cracker” is a racist slur, they prove themselves to be crackers because only a cracker would take offense.
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People either unintentionally or disingenuously conflate individuals being bigots with systemic, institutional subjugation and oppression. Is it possible to be bigoted against a person for the colour of their skin or “race”? Absolutely, and that goes for “white” people as well, even if the identity is entirely a social construct. Someone being “white” doesn’t make their skin colour fair game, and that line of reasoning is how shit like colourism infects communities.
Going a bit further, is it possible for White people to face systemic oppression at the hands of a White-supremacist system? Actually yes, seeing as many of the same mechanisms of state violence created to oppress and disenfranchise minority communities are readily turned against working class or impoverished Whites. However, is it possible for those same Whites to face systemic RACISM, at the hands of the same White supremacist system and society that might be oppressing them? That answer is a resounding no.
The people who get twisted over people using the word cracker are a little funny, but this is pretty circular reasoning. In your view, there is no way a person could take issue with something unless they are that thing. If someone is being disgusting, how is calling them a reactionary, lib, or fascist not better then using an ambiguous insult?
This makes everything else in your comment irrelevant. What is bigotry against white people? Jokes about that we can’t dance? Oh, the horror! A white person experiencing violence/discrimination because of their skin color is extremely rare, then again, I’m not even sure if that ever happens.
Yeah, jokes about a persons skin colour are pretty dickish.
Systemic oppression existing doesn’t make that less of an asshole move.
People who get bent out of shape by others who find racial jokes weird are the exact same type of weird as the people who really want to say the n word or froth at the mouth over the word cracker.