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  • I’m pretty sure that 100% of the people here and in the earlier thread agree that people are intrinsically equal, regardless of their skin color. It sounds like you think that because of this, anyone who supports any situation where people are treated differently based on ethnicity, skin color, etc is racist.

    Let me try a metaphor.

    Let’s say there was a group of people with all different skin tones. They are all going to be given money, but because the people running the organization giving out the money are racist, they give much more to people with light skin, and much less to people with dark skin. The people running the organization are replaced with people who are not racist, but it takes generations. The people with less money had to spend it all on food and shelter, and their descendants have none of it. The people who got more money spent some on food and shelter and had lots left over, which they put in a bank and got a lot of interest from it. It was given to their children, and their children’s children, and now their descendants have even more money.

    It was definitely racist to originally give more money to the lighter skinned people.

    Would it be racist to now give more money to the darker skinned people?




  • Older millennial here. I know a few random words and phrases in Latin. A couple examples:

    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    “Who will watch the watchmen?”
    Thanks to the comic Watchmen. Meaning it is difficult to regulate the actions of people in power.

    “Alea iacta est.”
    “The die is cast.”
    Attributed to Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon river, guaranteeing there would be a civil war. Meaning the outcome is uncertain, but you’ve passed the point of no return (“crossing the Rubicon” is also used to mean that).

    I don’t know any ancient Greek though.