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0 pointsdoom21y ago0 comments

> it feels the discourse in the US is poisoned by the word RACE. Back home, no one uses it.

I'm not sure where you're located, but as an American fan of European football, it seems like race is still very much an issue on other continents and not just as a proxy for some other inequality. Just in the last week, there have been at least two instances in the top 5 leagues of fans racially abusing players[1]. Maybe the US is too focused on race (I don't think so), but saying "no one uses it" seems like an indication of the opposite problem.

[1] In Fulham vs Watford and Valencia vs Real Madrid

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mbs1591y ago

What you see in football does not represent a continent, though. Where I live in Europe there are people of many races, but I have only heard the word race (in my native language) used only a handful of times in my entire life. Inequality via poverty is a thing, though.

l0t0b0r0s1y ago

He doesnt disclose where hes from because it is likely and ethno-homogenous state and would therefore ruin his bullshit bad faith argument.

Or he could be INDIAN and doesnt want to be criticized about the caste system lol.

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