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by charcircuit 57 days ago
>"White people" do not have culture.

This is a rude statement to claim as you are denying the existence of a group of people. Just because a group can consist of other subgroups that does not mean a larger group does not exist.

>it's a social construct that exists primarily for exclusion.

Everything can be a social construct if you want to try and frame it as one and while the actual definition may be complex it is not any more complex than other groups of people like Chinese which also consist of subgroups which people may or may not consider the same Chinese as one another. To say that the term of white is used primarily for exclusion that is wrong and I think more reflects the kind of content you consume.

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Focus on something useful like cheaper healthcare not culture wars

Culture = practice of a cult

I thought cults were considered bad?

Pearl clutching over words is little more than advocating a religious like dogma for the living

Well I am not Christian and similarly to not caring to chant their screeds I have no interest in yours

In fact the status quo in the US keeps me off the hook for paying for your healthcare; I am off thr hook for your life itself.

You might focus in changing that, because as-is all of us can let you end up living in your car

Culture war crap is intended to obfuscate and deflect away from those kinds of real problems our biology faces

Be smarter than the politicians and mouth breathers who wave flags