It’s no secret I’m on the misanthropy spectrum, but as such a person you could say that about, I wanted to ask this ever since hearing this conveyed in response to recent events which sees three spheres of influence now arguably possessing the potential to deliver on such promises. Like… what’s the deal?
I mean, cultures generally don’t declare war, but leaderships of countries do.
I don’t expect people to abandon their culture because their home country’s current government is doing messed up stuff.
But I will hate on people who support governments that declare unjust wars. But that’s hating people for their politics, which I think has always been fine.
cultures generally don’t declare war, but leaderships of countries do.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. In the context of discrimination though you tend to speak of them in terms of cultures.
Yes and that’s bad. Don’t discriminate based on culture.
Don’t hate on people with a russian accent, hate on the people posting pro russia murdering people news stories.
Cultures don’t declare war. Governments do. Conflating cultures and governments is what Nazis do.
Verbal technicality in this case since the topic is discrimination. When someone from a nation is treated a certain way, often they’ll speak in terms of culture instead of nation and it catches on in these conversations.
It’s a technicality that makes a difference, though.
If someone is advocating for genocide or whatever and accuses you of discrimination for saying “how 'bout not, tho”, they’re just making up bullshit to push their reprehensible agenda.
Meanwhile, it’s totally possible to be from a country that does bad shit while abhoring said bad shit (and also appreciating the cuisine and music or whatever of their community.) There would be no benefit whatsoever to punishing such an individual.
Hey guys, is it okay if I don’t hate Jewish people, I just hate people who do Jewish things or otherwise associate themselves with Jewish culture or identity? I mean, if they just stop being Jewish then I won’t hate them anymore!
No. No that’s not okay either.
There’s a difference between being against a group for trivial and/or subjective things and being against active participants in a player on a world stage that we can now say is the reason another player on the world stage no longer exists.
And I already mentioned (several times, unless one trusts their biases so much they won’t take my word for my own opinions) I wasn’t implying myself in the OP except to say it irks my misanthropic side and I might express that some other way.