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Originally Posted by Eirik  She mentioned an entire Ethnicity as being violent rapists. Even I haven't gone that far.
How about if someone replaces the word Yanomamo in her post with Somalians? Does it become racist then? Does it become racist if the word Yanomamo is replaced with Pakistanis? List goes on. |
Actually it was the Yanomamo she mentioned...
Probably the most studied people on earth because of their isolation until last century.
Anthropological studies of these tribes have shown their culture to be very violent.
Roughly a third of male deaths are caused by inter village warfare.
Domestic violence is institutionalised to the degree that after a woman is beaten by her husband, she will shave her head, and show off the injuries (He cares so much about me he did this)
If a series of studies over some 60 years said that Somalians or Pakistanis commonly beat their wives and raped them, then no it wouldnt be racist to say the somalian or pakistani people had integrated matrimonial rape and abuse into their culture.
We do, however know about shit like pakistani honour killings, and that subject is brought up often.
Bringing that up, for instance is no more racist than the Yanomamo rape and abuse.