I guarantee you there is one defining thing that unites white people regardless of where they're from.
I dunno; black Americans can tell you what their modern culture and lived experiences are, as well as appeal back to historical cultural milestones that directly define how we are today.
Why do you believe it is so obvious? Do you not take systemic and historical factors into consideration?
It isn't white skin indeed (I've already said not all white-skinned people were are or considered white). It's the subconscious belief in white supremacy. You can take a white New Englander and a white Briton and there's a decent chance that neither of them think much of people like me.
This is beautifully said. There are different forms of racism, and systemic racism isn't the end all be all to racism. Racism certainly exists towards white people, and my boyfriend (who is white) experienced it first-hand while trying to open up a business in a predominately black neighborhood.
In the scenario you described, you were actively being discriminated against solely based on the color of your skin. That was racism.
I really don't understand what you're trying to argue. That white people's culture is white supremacy? That white people don't have culture therefore can't experience racism? I'm confused. Either way, it's extremely unsettling.
The former.
You see semantic arguments from both sides all the time. People of Mexican and other ethnic south American descent are sometimes considered a 'race' and sometimes not depending on the narrative being spun.
It's racism, when you judge a total stranger based on their skin color it's racist. That's how the average person views it. Doesn't matter if it's not academically correct.
Ah, yes, them 8000+ anecdotes from Srebrenica, nothing systemic about them at all.
Nope, you clearly aren't getting it. If a poc chooses not to trust or like a white person because how they have been treated by white people is not racism.
You think every white person is, atleast subconsciously, a white supremacist? How do you think people can ever live in peace then?
Irish weren't considered white in the US in the same way that many don't consider Latin peoples white. They experienced systematic oppression until it was deemed necessary to lump them into white status ( on the census etc)
Maybe we can live in peace when white people acknowledge their position of power and do something about it, instead of continuing to push down minorities and sticking with the status quo.
Not if it's a subconscious characteristic like that poster said, then it would never change
Do you have examples of this or
So you can say whatever you want towards white people due to past experiences? By that logic that person will forever hate white people.
At the end of the day, those minorities voting for Trump don't fucking matter. They're not the ones giving him the majority of his power. If they didn't exist, he'd still win on white votes alone.
Have white people had their farms, lands, lifes taken away by black people? Do they not know their family tree due to slavery? Do they suffer racism every day they live? That is my point.
love how you dropped an anecdote as some sort of counter to black people bein oppressed for decades
Being jumped by a group of black people is bad, sorry you went through that. But comparing that to how black people have been and still are treated is a stretch.
I don't.
I'd like to hear how literally being unable to become a citizen for being white in a country is not racist by the power definition.
I hesitate to distill such a large scale concept to what Webster's says racism definitively is.
So what opportunities or upward momentum has she prevented white people from having by having prejudiced thoughts? It's gross, I agree, but I guess we just disagree on the overall definition.
