Yeah, but the main difference between Koreans and white settlers is that Koreans didn’t shape the broken legal and government systems which perpetuate oppression. A Korean person killed a black child, which is utterly indefensible. However, it probably wasn’t a Korean judge and a Korean jury who let her off with a slap on the wrist. Wasn’t Korean people making the rules that ghettoized African Americans. Wasn’t Korean people refusing to hire black folks and Korean folks alike or refusing to give them loans, etc etc.
The white settler has the power as a group to make rules. That means that they also have the collective power to wield said rules to turn minority groups against each other.
The white settler has the power as a group to make rules.
Sure, but that’s the whole issue with collective punishment – you’re punishing individuals who may have done little to nothing wrong for the crimes “their group” broadly causes. It’s an enormous contradiction to say on one hand that the U.S. is a white bourgeois democracy where ordinary people have basically no influence on government, but on the other hand say every powerless white person is accountable for the actions of that bourgeois democracy.
There’s a similar contradiction with correctly pointing out that race is a social construct explicitly crafted to divide disenfranchised groups who might otherwise challenge bourgeois rule, but then turning around and saying “actually ordinary white people do have more in common with the white bourgeois than they do with their fellow workers.”
Yeah, but the main difference between Koreans and white settlers is that Koreans didn’t shape the broken legal and government systems which perpetuate oppression. A Korean person killed a black child, which is utterly indefensible. However, it probably wasn’t a Korean judge and a Korean jury who let her off with a slap on the wrist. Wasn’t Korean people making the rules that ghettoized African Americans. Wasn’t Korean people refusing to hire black folks and Korean folks alike or refusing to give them loans, etc etc.
The white settler has the power as a group to make rules. That means that they also have the collective power to wield said rules to turn minority groups against each other.
Sure, but that’s the whole issue with collective punishment – you’re punishing individuals who may have done little to nothing wrong for the crimes “their group” broadly causes. It’s an enormous contradiction to say on one hand that the U.S. is a white bourgeois democracy where ordinary people have basically no influence on government, but on the other hand say every powerless white person is accountable for the actions of that bourgeois democracy.
There’s a similar contradiction with correctly pointing out that race is a social construct explicitly crafted to divide disenfranchised groups who might otherwise challenge bourgeois rule, but then turning around and saying “actually ordinary white people do have more in common with the white bourgeois than they do with their fellow workers.”