• Glide@lemmy.ca
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    Racism is the result of systems which disadvantage people of a given ethnic group. These people by definition cannot be victims of racism, because they come from the advantaged social group.

    They are victims of prejudice. Prejudice born of the fact that they are the benefactors of a long history of racism in South Africa. While I am sure not all of them are deserving of this prejudice, I suspect the ones calling it racism are.

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      You have confused the definition of “racism“ with “systemic racism“. A person, or a group, can be victims of racism without that racism having any realistic effect on them. Such is the case in South Africa. In cases, such as this, it is often a consequence of the actions of said group.

      Which, of course, feeds into prejudice. And prejudice isn’t always unjustified. Again, as with the white people in South Africa, they certainly earned that prejudice through generations of colonization and apartheid.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah text book definition of prejudice vs. Racism.

      But basically, I think these guys are upset because they can’t steal from other people fast enough.