• Turun@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    My edit didn’t go through. It should read

    It is undemocratic and racist if the position is (edit: not!) filled by an elected person and it is based on the race of people.

    (I blame the federated nature of lemmy for that, but in the future I need to double check if any corrections do reach the intended server.)


    I am aware that some people think racism can only be done by white people or by the majority. My definition of racism is that it is action based on the race of people.

    I’m from Germany and quite frankly, I think the concept of race is indeed stupid. We got rid of that concept and its everyday use 75 years ago. But it is commonly used in the anglosphere (no doubt due to the big influence of the USA and it’s domestic problems with african-american citzens), so that’s the word I use in internet discourse as well.