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There are some eyes; they look at a person, but they see skin, they see color. They see beliefs, accents, clothes, hometowns.
\nSeparates, counts, weighs.
\nAnd it separates man from man.
\nSome eyes see only life when they look at a human being. For these eyes, man is neither biology, nor color, nor body. Man is an essence.
\nIt's fine.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
Racism arises precisely from the difference between these two views. ***<\/p>\n One of the most well-known forms of this in the world is Islamophobia. It is fueled by far-right politics, especially in Western countries, the language of the media and hate speech produced by radical groups. ***<\/p>\n What has happened before the eyes of this country in recent years has left examples of cultural racism that will live long in the memory. When we see how easily anyone can cross this line, are we right to be afraid?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":281655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-281654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281656,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281654\/revisions\/281656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClassical racism classifies human beings according to their biological characteristics and presents this in an explicit or implicit hierarchy. It is more visible, more crude.
\nThe new racism - cultural racism - is quieter. It appears more polite, but inflicts deeper wounds. It considers those who are different as a danger, excludes them; it crushes people with their language, faith, culture, way of life, memory.
\n\u201cI am not a racist\u201d<\/em> It starts with,
\n\u201cbut...\u201d<\/em> he continues.
\nIt generates discontent, fear, distance and hatred against anyone who is not from its own culture and habits.
\nOne looks at a person's face, but one does not see their humanity. At that moment the human being is reduced to a mere biology or an object of fear.
\nFrantz Fanon is one of the most eloquent exponents of this state of affairs.
\n\u201cHe who looked at me saw my color,\u201d<\/em> der Fanon.
\nThere is no human being, no breath, no life in that look. There is only a label placed in the mind.
\nAnd the human being is slowly erased in that look.
\nWhat Fanon is describing is not just being black. It is the pain of being seen without being seen, of being judged without being known.
\nThe pain of being reduced to an identity instead of a human being, of being imprisoned in a category instead of a life...
\nIn another place, in another time, Hannah Arendt shows us where this pain can lead.
\nOrdinary people, neighbors, civil servants, \u201cdoing his job\u201d<\/em> how people can turn into criminals.
\nHe says that evil does not always come with a demonic face. Sometimes it seems perfectly normal, perfectly ordinary. Here it is. \u201cthe banality of evil\u201d<\/em> that's exactly what it is.
\nThe cultural racism we experience today stands where Fanon's gaze and the mediocrity described by Arendt meet.<\/p>\n
\nPeople are judged by their beliefs, their clothes, their names.
\nThis is a new form of racism.
\nPeople are suddenly \u201cincompatible\u201d, \u201cdangerous\u201d, \u201cbackward\u201d<\/strong> is announced.
\nThe skin may not be talked about, but the gaze is still the same. It feeds from the same place: racism. And this issue is not only \u201cother countries\u201d<\/strong> is not a matter of.
\nIt is also familiar in this land.
\nSometimes it happens closest to us.
\nSomeone with whom you have tea or coffee will look at you differently the next day.
\nIt's like there's an excess. As if you suddenly \u201cdifferent\u201d<\/strong> like you've been.
\nAnd this view often comes from the most educated. From scientists, from professors, from \u201crational\u201d, \u201cprogressive\u201d, \u201cmodern\u201d<\/strong> who define it as...
\nThe fact that a medical professor, whose mission is to keep people alive, can talk about finding a virus that can kill other people... The fact that someone else can talk about killing other people... \u201chyster\u201d, \u201csubspecies\u201d<\/strong> to describe it as
\nMoreover, this language is often hidden behind fancy words.
\nHimself \u201cresearcher\u201d, \u201cjournalist\u201d, \u201cintellectual\u201d<\/strong> can belittle a woman for covering her head.
\nAnd sometimes \u201cintellectual\u201d<\/strong> It is transformed into an assertion; it manifests itself in patronizing judgments that a religious person cannot do positive science, cannot produce a new idea.
\nNone of this is a simple accident of language.
\nThese are refined, polite but highly destructive forms of cultural racism.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the most striking of these is the classical and cultural racism produced through the subject of Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu; moreover, it is still alive and still effective.
\nHow?
\nHis politics was not discussed; his identity was discussed. Not what he said, but the culture he belonged to was weighed. Not his projects, \u201cwhat it is\u201d<\/strong> implied. \u201cThe candidate who can't win\u201d<\/strong> under the cover of the unspoken \u201cbecause\u201d<\/strong>were put into circulation:
\nBecause he is Alevi,
\nbecause Kurdish,
\nbecause Turkmen,
\nbecause he's old,
\nbecause he is from Tuncelli (Dersim),
\nbecause he is from the East.
\nKemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has been transformed into a figure who embodies almost all the colors of classical racism and cultural racism at the same time.
\nAnd perhaps the saddest thing is that a significant part of this came from an environment that defines itself as social democratic, egalitarian and libertarian.
\nSome of the people with whom they traveled together kept silent, some kept their distance, some gave advice, and some openly joined this language.
\nThis is precisely why racism sometimes thrives not by shouting but by remaining silent.
\nEven more painful was the similar targeting of those who spoke out against these wrongdoings.
\nMoreover, most of the time these discourses and actions did not come from the opposing front, but from within the CHP.
\nHow?
\nThere is a strike in the municipalities, the striking workers are accused of being Kurdish.
\nCriticism happens, Alevis \u201cmost dangerous\u201d<\/strong> is announced.
\nHe will be a religious candidate, \u201cwhy should we vote for you\u201d<\/strong> It's called.
\nThen come the questions:
\n\u201cCan the CHP be criticized?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIs there opposition to the opposition?\u201d<\/em>
\nYes, it's okay.
\nBecause fear has begun.
\nFear of becoming like their competitors.
\nThis fear is the possibility that whatever has been criticized, objected to, stood against in the name of humanity for years will be absorbed into language, gaze, action, silence...
\nThis fear is the possibility that a beloved and trusted structure may exhibit shameful examples for humanity.
\nPeople according to their race, beliefs, culture, clothing, food, drink, country of origin \u201cincompatible\u201d, \u201cnot from us\u201d, \u201ctoo much\u201d, \u201cnot enough\u201d, \u201cbackward\u201d, \u201ccannot win\u201d, \u201cshould not win\u201d<\/strong> the possibility of being able to declare...
\nThe real uneasiness is that the people you walk the road with, the people you call your life, the people you call brothers and sisters, will one day approach that ordinary evil.
\nThat threshold that Arendt describes...
\nI mean, human beings \u201cI don't do it\u201d<\/strong> is how close the line is.
\nHuman history is full of examples of how ordinary people can turn into monsters when this line is crossed.
\nEvery look, every word that hurts, upsets and excludes people is racism, no matter what it is called.
\nAnd the most dangerous is the one who thinks he is innocent.
\nOkay,
\nWhen we see how easily anyone can cross this line, are we right to be afraid?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"