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0 pointsSpivak4y ago0 comments

Yes. Mexicans have not installed institutions that create and perpetuate widespread discrimination, prejudice, and harm to Americans but the opposite is true.

Punching up or down isn't about the relative superiority or inferiority of groups, it's about the human made power dynamics that exist between them.

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mc324y ago

This is weird, you're saying the only racism is institutional racism (tho you must recall the motto Mexico is for Mexicans' as well as a history of slavery in Mexico) that attitude used to keep out legal foreigners (LatAm and NAm) from some types of jobs.

Never the less, it's ridiculous to think that a Mexican cannot be racist against an American or a Honduran or whatever.

Mexico imported slaves from Africa and that wasn't abolished till the 1830s though there was an exception that allowed importation of slaves from Texas.

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0 pointsSpivak4y ago0 comments

Yes. Mexicans have not installed institutions that create and perpetuate widespread discrimination, prejudice, and harm to Americans but the opposite is true.

Punching up or down isn't about the relative superiority or inferiority of groups, it's about the human made power dynamics that exist between them.

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mc324y ago

Never the less, it's ridiculous to think that a Mexican cannot be racist against an American or a Honduran or whatever.

Mexico imported slaves from Africa and that wasn't abolished till the 1830s though there was an exception that allowed importation of slaves from Texas.

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