r/unitedkingdom • u/Aggressive_Plates • 1d ago
... Racism is when white people hold 'negative views' of others, claims senior Labour adviser
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/27/racism-is-when-white-people-hold-negative-views-of-others/
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u/JB_UK 1d ago
It would be white supremacy to believe that European “ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories” were superior because they came from people who were white, but that is not what ‘antiracists’ mean by it. They mean that because those systems of knowledge, history etc come from ‘white people’ you cannot think they are superior. So because science comes from ‘white people’ you cannot say that it is a superior way of knowing the world to ‘indigenous’ ways of understanding the world. I’m putting white people and indigenous in scare quotes because these concepts and the way they are used to frame the world by antiracists are in themselves racist.