• dumdum666@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    15 years ago I thought the Germans were the smartest people in the world

    What you are describing is racism - positive racism but racism none the less.

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        1 year ago

        Hating to break it to you, but Attributing ANY group as a whole with positive/negative traits is racism. But keep mincing words - probably the only thing you are capable of?

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          1 year ago

          Incorrect. Racism is the prejudice or discrimination of a person or people due to their racial or ethnic group. Not just any group. So no - attributing something to Germans isn’t racist.

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            1 year ago

            I hate the word race as well, but Germans are an ethnic group (the definition is somewhat vague anyway).
            Racism derives from the outdated race concept but sadly does not depend on its validity to exist.

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            1 year ago

            No. I just leave this here, from German Wikipedia. Translate it yourself.

            „Unabhängig von seiner Herkunft oder Nationalität kann jeder Mensch von Rassismus betroffen sein. Das Internationale Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung unterscheidet nicht zwischen rassistischer und ethnischer Diskriminierung.“

            https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rassismus

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              That’s bullshit, there is no german ethnicity. We are all mixed up in Europe since ages, that comes from constant migration and redrawing oft boarders with every war. Beeing German is when you are born in between the corresponding borders. And, like stated before, there is still only one human race.