That's not something to be proud of
Oh but we should always be proud of triggering the sh*t out of far right and conservatists or confusionnists like you. It should be a national sport.
who dont suffer from systemic racism cant experience individual racism.
Those interpersonal racist attacks must not be treated with the same gravity of those produced by systemic racism.
Racism is a system of domination that was created to legitimize this existence of people of colors. Those cases of interpersonal racism are the
response to this systemic racism and oppressions. Racism as it is lived by million of people of color is systemic, Hence why people like Bob NEVER experienced the reality this racism in the first place but cases of individual/interpersonal racism.
arlong pretty much became what he hated
No. In no way.
You are comparing the attack of an individual with the attack of an entire system delibaratly perpetuated by millions of people.
What Arlong - however cruel he was - did, is IN NO WAY comparable to what human did to fishmen (but overall all the non human races in the One Piece world)
This is the difference between the act of a system and the act of an individual. One must be taken with much more gravity, simply because its much more difficult to erease than the other.
this isnt a good analogy at all.
This was the perfect analogy. Arlong racism is a case of individual racism. Arlong acts in response to the oppression fishmen faces in the world. This is EXACTLY what is happening when a black person is being racist against a white person in our world. Its reactance and individual, its not systemic.
dictionaries dont necessarily give us academic definitions.
Yes they do. "Academics" being the institution that creates those dictionnaries and their competition.
im just using words as they are defined
Yes my point exactly. Even when said definitions are not describing reality correctly.
because that is the common ground we as a species have to actually communicate with each other
The common ground is not based on dictionnaries but usages and common definitions. When said definitions evolve, its no use to keep defending old and inaccurate definitions.
if everyone just uses words contrary to their definitions like you are doing occasionally, then the entire concept of language is basically redundant
Languages evolve mate. And dictionnaries are the last places where you will notice those evolutions. Simply because they are not constructed in order to be a testimony of the evolution of language but to be a fixed referenced point about language.
but that has to be natural instead of forcing whatever you want words to mean on to other people.
Nobody is forcing anything on anyone here. If you want to defend old transphobic or non scientific definitions, you go for it.
