potatomuncher@lemmy.ca to Toronto@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 days agoOlivia Chow wins Toronto's mayoral racewww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: canadapolitics@lemmy.ca
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkOlivia Chow wins Toronto's mayoral racewww.cbc.capotatomuncher@lemmy.ca to Toronto@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: canadapolitics@lemmy.ca
minus-squareGate F-Con2@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days ago When she was elected in 2023, Chow became the first racialized person to serve as mayor Does racialized just mean non-white?
minus-squarejade52@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agoJesus fucking Christ I did not know that’s what radicalized meant
minus-squareGate F-Con2@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days ago@jade52@lemmy.ca racialized not radicalized
minus-squarepotatomuncher@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoYeah. It’s white speak for “those coloured folks” when they want to sound sophisticated and not-racist… Another one they use is “people of colour”. But never refer to their own as “people without colour”.
minus-squareGate F-Con2@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoOr in this case whites are those without race?
minus-squarepotatomuncher@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoYea, pretty much. “We are the default human beings and those over there are ‘racialized’ others”. It’s basically veiled, polite, left-wing white supremacy in the anglosphere. But without the slurs and outward hostility.
Does racialized just mean non-white?
Jesus fucking Christ I did not know that’s what radicalized meant
@jade52@lemmy.ca racialized not
radicalizedWow I’m an idiot
Yeah. It’s white speak for “those coloured folks” when they want to sound sophisticated and not-racist…
Another one they use is “people of colour”. But never refer to their own as “people without colour”.
Or in this case whites are those without race?
Yea, pretty much.
“We are the default human beings and those over there are ‘racialized’ others”.
It’s basically veiled, polite, left-wing white supremacy in the anglosphere. But without the slurs and outward hostility.