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Cake day: February 9th, 2026

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  • This seems a very simplistic way of seeing racism. Like, to me, complex human interactions and systems cannot be simplified in this manner:

    Some are expressed as formulas (priviledge+power or prejutice+power) with the key concept being power.

    There’s a lot more nuance than this. If you’re thinking about structural racism, the legal, the opportunity given, segregational, educational and societal (even if not official) factors of racism, that’s what I think it is, the amalgamation of various factors into the added institution of racism, as they are at the structural foundation of our modern society, not just a guy being racist, not just priviledge, but the educational access for black people or laws implicitly made to keep latinos out of legality (some examples).

    It’s not that simple. Check this and this as they’re a good start.

    And, to the question, in the definition I just gave, the question:

    To what extent is the standard structural definition of racism structurally racist?

    Doesn’t even make sense, as describing the ways racism prevail in society is not racist, because the definition of racism is a lot different than this.








  • It’s not about buying, it’s about staying in your head, even if you don’t remember it explicitly.

    This kinda boring, menial, repetitive propaganda doesn’t try to make you buy something straight away, it’s to make you numb to it, to know it, to receive it without thinking, so then it tries to affect you. It tries to turn nothing into anything resembling truth, it turns advertisement and news, into an endless cycle of boring things that get hammered by the “a lie told 1000 times turns into truth” line.

    It doesn’t affect you when you’re watching it, it affects you when you see or do anything relating to it.

    When you need to buy new tires, you know what to buy, you don’t buy based on technical sheets, you buy it knowing it, even not explicitly.

    (A take from Adorno and Horkheimers “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, the part where they talk about the media, culture, art, etc)