Borrowing from Bruce Charlton:
"When a concept has become so wide, vague, incoherent and expediently-applied as 'racism', it might include some attitudes and behaviours that could be sinful. What tends to be the overwhelming case, is that the antiracism action is ingrained with pride and envy itself. That antiracism is an evil is confirmed in practice by the fact that no extremity of antiracism is proscribed - antiracism is routinely applied without limit, regardless of context, void of balance.
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Antiracism is an act of affiliation; and what it affiliates-with is the global totalitarian establishment; which is atheist, materialist, anti-Christian, and anti-God: being an advocate and implementer of value-inversion by which (in terms of the transcendent values of truth, beauty and virtue) good is regarded as evil, evil is advocated as good."
"While antiracism is indicative of a person or institution having made the choice to ally with The System/ The Matrix/ the Virtual Reality; the choice to join one's efforts with the agents of Satan in this world.
That is, in the spiritual war of this world; to have taken the side working against God, divine creation and the Good.
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Uncontextualized anti-racism has proved itself an insatiable agent of societal and personal destruction. Therefore naturally the secular Left want to prioritise it in all situations, regardless of severity.
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It is a solid fact - by the in-practice definition of racism deployed by those in power and with influence as of 2021 - that every thing which is Good is racist.
So don't bother defending it by saying it is not racist - by your own personal and/or coherent definition of racist: your idea of 'racism' does not matter.
Those who have the capacity to impose Their usage of 'racism' upon society - e.g. those in politics, government, the mass media, law, NGOs and education... by Their definition of racism any-thing which is on the side of God and divine creation; any-body who follows Jesus Christ; any entity that is beautiful, virtuous, or truth-full - is indeed racist.
In this world of global totalitarian evil; Any Thing At All which a Christian values as Good, will - and probably sooner rather than later - be identified as racist; and will be suppressed by The Establishment.
We had better get used to the fact; and each of us decide what is ultimately most important: Good-ness or antiracism."
It's so vague of a term, incoherent and non-existent, as it is forcefully used by the satanic establishment to tear down traditional, moral, spiritual, and religious association.
So then "racism" or "racist" as it is used today is simply anything the marxist secular culture hates, which is usually all things beautiful and Godly.
And one of the most prevalent theories amongst modern LDS Antiracists, is this idea that the darkening of complexion was non-literal. Whether the distinguishing mark was a physical alteration of the complexion of the Lamanites, or if it was self applied cosmetics is besides the point.
The only reason one would contort the verses to mean that it wasn't a literal physical darkening of the skin, is if they were seeking to appease the critics, is if they were afraid of the Antiracists and the power of the elite.
Technically, "race" denotes some lineage of a family; continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock; a group of people identified as distinct from others, united or classified on the basis of traits shared by the group. This could be according to supposed physical or genetic traits, common history, nationality, or geographic distribution.
Racism then, would be the discrimination or the distinguishing of races.
In the case of the Nephites and Lamanites, the intended outcome of the Lord's judgment was to distinguish and preserve each as its own separate lineage for the time being.
He cursed them with darkened (reddened, whatever) skin to separate and distinguish them from the Nephites - something the Lamanites wanted anyway - that thereby He might preserve his people, that they might not mix and believe in incorrect traditions which would prove their destruction.
They became loathsome in their manner and unattractive in their complexion.
'Curse', in reference to the darkened skin, is identical to the usage in Alma 30 when Korihor was struck dumb by God.
What's unjust about distinguishing two peoples?
This doesn't perpetually disallow intermingling with the Lamanites though. If they wished to assimilate, they simply had to repent and convert. In fact the Nephites made an effort to persuade their brethren back to the faith (we can see this initially in Enos 1:13-14).
The savage and loathsome manner of the Lamanites was on account of not having the blessing and light of the Lord; not possessing the recorded covenants, commandments, and prophesies of God (Mosiah 1:5). They became dark and loathsome (savage; characteristically wicked; ostensibly wild and detestable).
Secondly, the mark became a sign of their heritage, blessing, and destiny (Mormon 7).
Skin color or lineage doesn't inhibit you from reaching the heavens; the Book of Mormon teaches this liberally.
The Lamanites already desired to be their own people. The Lord simply separated and divided them, especially to preserve the Nephites. Had they not been separated, they would have been destroyed. There is nothing unjust about this since the Lamanites were warned of the consequences for disobedience. They were already the same race. Lamanites wanted to do their own thing, so God gives them what they want: a distinction from the Nephites.
Coming back to the technicality of the term 'race', to note, the Nephites and Lamanites both descend through Lehi and Ishmael. But the intention of the Lamanites was to wipe out Nephi and his seed completely. It was God's duty then, to distinguish (or separate and make different) the two so as to preserve his people, the records, traditions, and religion.
I don't think they can accurately be described as the same race if they aren't united or sharing the same features (genetic traits, common history, culture).
[In 4th Nephi they merged into one harmonious group (people; kindred; race; nation; culture; whatever you want to call them, it's all the same meaning).]
The definition today:
racism
The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
Generally most people term "racism" as the belief of inherent superiority of one race over the others. But what does "superiority" even mean? Like economically? Spiritually? Morally?
Because I could accurately say that the Nephites were supperior to the Lamanites. They had the records, they had technology, they had God's blessing, strong leaders, etc.
What is wholly apparent from the text is that the Nephites, for a major part of the timeline, were a superior tribe in almost every way: economically, culturally, traditionally, religiously, agriculturally, technologically, industrially, phenotypically, etc.
How is superiority inherently evil? And how can this be intrinsic if not the Nephite race was completely wiped out an account of their own pride and spiritual wickedness.
Which race outlived the other? It was the Lamanites.
And as critics flock to the text to cry 'racism' we see them whining over verses such as in 3 nephi 2.
>Lamanites assimilate and merge with Nephites
>children become lighter in complexion
So, according to Antiracists, Reintegration is racist? Oh no! They intermingled? How could they!
If the drawing out (I guess segregation) and distinguishing of a sect of people out from another is evil, why are Antiracists not up in arms about Lehi and his family leaving their homeland, people, culture, etc. to venture to a new world where they would become a selected, choice, and noticeably different people?
