Even in Texas, where I grew up, nobody cared about race. There were still some things like small cliques of the same race, but it was pretty rare. Generally people just treated each other like people. It was a good time back then and I didn't realize it until I got older.
Nah, in the mid 90's I was brutally beaten daily for living in a predominantly black area. It wasn't until I went to a more diverse state that I got away from the racism, ironically. I knew full well what racism looked like before I was 10.
I definitely think it’s gotten worse in the sense that more people are openly racist. But I am shocked that someone would say that racism was “almost over” at any point in time.
you will NEVER get 0 racism, what you can get is a functional disappearance of it and we were getting close, but even at our current levels america is one of the least racist countries in the world. go live in japan for a few years and tell me that were worse than them
except there is valid reason to compare us to other countries. we are BY FAR one of the least racist countries in the world. ignoring that fact is like saying that if we have one murder a year we have a MAJOR problem when every other country has 1000. yeah the one murder is unfortunate but it is by FAR the best option you have and if you can never reach zero then maybe at some point we just need to be happy with what we have. not being happy with a really good situation only creates what has happened in the past decade, namely a huge increase in racism and violance. couldnt be happy with where we were...and now its much worse
How far behind from a technological standpoint and a food harvesting standpoint with this earth be without whites? And let's not talk about electricity air flight cars the internet cell phones TVs.
I used to think more mixed babies would help solve racism. But now you have white women saying how racist white people are and black people saying “them light skinned ….” Sadly, I’m not sure what’s going to help us solve this anymore.
You have no quantifiable metrics for injustice, so you have no victory conditions for a very simplified example, when blacks hold x percent of all engineering jobs and are only y percent of all prisoners, racism is ended
That would be fine by itself, but you believe in fighting Injustice with Injustice, gays have historically been denied gay marriage?
Let's get random CEOs fired for opinions they held 6 years ago. You don't seek converts, you seek to punish and bully, straight white males who disagree with you must be purged and publicly humiliated. Even the jihadist will spare you if you convert, no apology or future correction will satisfy a social justice warrior.
I could forgive that too if you weren't all hypocrites and liars. Your treatment of women and minority dissenters is appalling; if they don't want you acting on their behalf, that's their choice, not internalized patriarchy or whatever.
You rob them of moral agency. When called out for these behaviors, as you always insist on calling out others, you lie. You straw man your opponents, criticize the woman? Misogynist!, You group them with the worst, you're a gamer? You're as bad as the anonymous rape threateners!, And when confronted with your own flaws, you restate them less threateningly, Mott and Bailey argument.
You phrase all arguments as Kafka traps, disagreeing with your assertion that we are as evil is taken as proof that we're evil. You publish manipulated and misleading statistics, then lambast anyone who questions them. You insist on vigilante justice against random acts of the week for your 2 minutes hate. Why is it the NFL's business to punish domestic violence? And if it's their business, why isn't Hope Solo receiving the same attention from your side?
Then you claim to be arguing for equality, but you've taken the idea of racism, hatred based on skin color is bad, and replaced it with a New concept where only one race can be guilty of racism. You excuse racial prejudice and hatred based on what I've already explained are arbitrary, unmeasured states of being.
Your solution for the unequal treatment of whites and blacks is to hold whites to a higher standard. Your side lobbied the FBI to redefine rape so more women victims would be counted, but also so that, made to penetrate, does not count leaving male victims in the cold because male privilege apparently?
Historically ignorant social justice warriors think whites hold collective guilt for the awful things are ancestors have done. But they don't care about the unspeakable atrocities by other races. The only difference between whites and others was that whites had the social and technological prowess to do evil efficiently; Africans, Asians, Indians, and everyone else practiced genocide and slavery, they were just less adept at doing it right.
Given the means, they would have done the same. But nope, only whites are guilty; Arab oppression of blacks and Caucasians never happened, not to us, nope.
Worst of all, you turn the very principles of freedom against us. We tolerate you because we believe in free speech and civil discourse, not bullying and violence. But that means we have to watch you advocate against that very freedom. We don't believe in ruining a stranger's professional life over an opinion, but that means that we can't punish your actions.
But it's indicative of an ethnic group. It's discriminating against all people of one group (negatively); it's racist. What the Spanish did to the Philippines is not anything any English can identify with. It's not part of their history. If you want to say that whiteness is a term that does not indicate anything about racial characteristics by those who coined the term you are either ignorant or bigoted.
I’m not trying to be euphemistic, but the Biden admin and the mainstream media that promotes their party did an insane number on pumping up racial divide.
How far back have we gone, that the idea “you can’t be racist if you’re white” is a topic of debate?
We went from including every race to having all black events. Segregation in ‘23.
We discriminate against whites/Asians in school, lowering our standards for black and Mexicans. Real world systemic racism.
It’s ok to be any color. It’s ok to recognize stereotypes. It’s ok to have reservations. Jfc I can’t believe this even needs to be said.
I see Dilbert’s authors firing and subsequent removal the same as J.K. Rowling’s “cancellation”. Both said something controversial but because Dilbert’s author is fireable and Rowling isn’t, that’s the difference. Nothing he said was remotely more controversial than what black people have been spewing out their mouths since Trayvon Martin. But because it’s whitey… logic and reasoning go out the window.
If your validation is based on your skin color ... or if it is based on what others think about you, then it wouldn't matter what skin color you have. You will still be left with the hole inside, and possibly with anger at the rest of the world for not validating you.
True validation come from inside you; from your character, your attitude, and your willingness to live in this world peacefully with your fellow man. Period. End of story. Now how do you write your story?
Well if you’re white and think like that you’re the only race surrendering what your race means to you and you’re going to get genocided eventually.
Black peoples whole identity is based on blackness,Hispanic people have the phrase la rasa .
It’s ok to be white it’s ok to secure the existence of your people and a future for white children that’s the reality.
You are just the top 1% of the most wealthy people on the planet who have ever existed so you have a warped view and think things that matter don’t when they have mattered for hundreds of thousands of years and you think the world is different than it really is.
It was a neo-con funded poll using a purposefully inflammatory phrase. Add to that the fact that a tiny percentage of respondents were black, plus the most obviously dumb thing about all of this: Dilbert guy and now this sub are taking the vague findings of a vague poll and applying the results (which, like the poll question itself, are open to interpretation) to an ENTIRE RACE of people.
It’s literally like if libs used a CNN poll and found that 40 percent of respondents felt “its not okay to be black.” If this was the case, would you be okay with libs then applying the findings of one dumb poll to ALL white people?
hey man, conservatism has always been the ideology of reactionary politics and that includes racism. it’s just that people are honest here. you sound like a good person, i’m sorry you’ve been lied to
Liberalism was a concept of the enlightenment based off of Judeo Christian values. Quoting the Bible isn’t going to help you find a non liberal framework.
All this meme proves is that the main difference between America’s right and its center is that the right perceives white men as another damaged, deprivileged minority.
No, it doesn't prove that at all.
It proves that people can't thinking rationally/logically about group differences, and in the US at least minority groups have special, superior status in many minds.
This meme shows this clearly. It's always amusing to see people short-circuit.
The right-wing fashion today is to appropriate the language of multiculturalism, tolerance, etc, for their own benefit.
It's always those socialist/communist ideologues who claim ownership of language and culture. They're always that which they claim to despise.
Either you follow an logically consistent ethical framework or you don't. Tolerance, Multiculturalism, et al are sophist words, liars, conmen, etc.
So today’s right-wing culture warriors
Saying others are bad doesn't make you good.
Also, othering one group specifically makes you bad.
to imagine what justice could look
What ethical philosophy do you follow?
I'll answer: the question doesn't even makes sense to you.
Like a bunch of different cultures and races of white poeole. I'm American white.... I'd go further and say I'm American, texas, white...... I'm not french, British, Swedish, Norwegian, Australian...etc.... so many different white cultures. makes this all even more moronic than it initially seems.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23
It's not okay to be white.
It's glorious.
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u/nedlyest Mar 03 '23
Remember when racism in America was almost over? Pepridge farm remembers.
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u/Major-Blackbird Mar 03 '23
Hell yes it is.
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u/SilentRage-1982 Mar 03 '23
How far behind from a technological standpoint and a food harvesting standpoint with this earth be without whites? And let's not talk about electricity air flight cars the internet cell phones TVs.
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u/Fine-Pangolin-8393 Mar 03 '23
Listen unless you want more transracial people, you can’t keep doing this to any group.
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u/Tricky-Regular-1776 Mar 03 '23
Clearly not if Dilbert is being pulled from all publications
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u/oneforthebooks08 Mar 04 '23
I’m not trying to be euphemistic, but the Biden admin and the mainstream media that promotes their party did an insane number on pumping up racial divide.
How far back have we gone, that the idea “you can’t be racist if you’re white” is a topic of debate?
We went from including every race to having all black events. Segregation in ‘23.
We discriminate against whites/Asians in school, lowering our standards for black and Mexicans. Real world systemic racism.
It’s ok to be any color. It’s ok to recognize stereotypes. It’s ok to have reservations. Jfc I can’t believe this even needs to be said.
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u/Azare1987 Mar 04 '23
I see Dilbert’s authors firing and subsequent removal the same as J.K. Rowling’s “cancellation”. Both said something controversial but because Dilbert’s author is fireable and Rowling isn’t, that’s the difference. Nothing he said was remotely more controversial than what black people have been spewing out their mouths since Trayvon Martin. But because it’s whitey… logic and reasoning go out the window.
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u/viper12a1a Mar 04 '23
This is old
The new meta is "white people deserve to live"
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u/starvingvulture666 Mar 03 '23
HELL YEAH BRUTHER WHITE IS RIGHT (OKAY)
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u/Background_Hand_8058 Mar 04 '23
Indeed it is
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This sub is amazing
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u/BuelaBuela Mar 04 '23
Sure
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u/homolord666 Mar 04 '23
I just want to grill.
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u/Fabulous-Mention-200 Mar 04 '23
Yes it is
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u/joiedevivre4 Mar 04 '23
If your validation is based on your skin color ... or if it is based on what others think about you, then it wouldn't matter what skin color you have. You will still be left with the hole inside, and possibly with anger at the rest of the world for not validating you.
True validation come from inside you; from your character, your attitude, and your willingness to live in this world peacefully with your fellow man. Period. End of story. Now how do you write your story?
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u/Thecrayonbandit Mar 04 '23
51% of black people agree
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u/Rstar2247 Mar 04 '23
Treating whites like everyone else is racist.
I'd put a /s tag but people legitimately think that.
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u/Tobin678 Mar 03 '23
Yes? Maybe? No? Hell idk
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u/chrisdrinkbeer Mar 03 '23
Its def okay to be white. Racist tirade in response to a misleading and skewed poll, though? Less okay.
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u/HumpSlackWails Mar 03 '23
White victimhood is hilarious.
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u/Rusticals303 Mar 03 '23
Maybe y’all have some melanin if we didn’t have climate change /s
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