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wow. Next time before you decide to laugh at something why don’t you look up what you don’t understand. White privilege, internalized racism, systematic racism.
White privilege is a Christian extremist being called an exception. He was crazy etc. But a Muslim extremist is the perfect example of why Islam, Muslims and people with dark skin are bad, terrorists even.
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Look, racism is racism, whether it is a “white” person being racist to a “coloured” person or a "brown/dark/coloured whatever you want to call it person being racist to a “white” person, both are wrong, you can not say one is more wrong that the other… Racism is racism
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Yes some people are blindly racist, others are overly sensitive… Not everything is racist and not everything is important… Everyone is not an enemy!
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^ not sure anyone disagrees with last two posts.
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I watched the video. Permission requested from OP to disagree.
There is nothing to indicate racism is increasing in Society. The show was about .educating the privileged folks about the following:
The non whites experience subtle discrimination on a daily basis
That the power structure favors the privileged
That a father doesn’t go to his daughter’s school for he knows once they find out his light skilled daughter has a colored father the kids may treat her differently - this is exclusively white school
That a colored buy running after a school bus is stopped by police
That colored are. 8 times likely to be subject to subtle put downs
That some whites refuse to see this. And are in denial. Because they haven’t lived it.
NONE OF this means racism has increased. It simply means we now have tools such as this to help guide us to be more saaansitive to others.
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I didn’t say that the video indicated that racism has increased. There is clear segregation and minorities (POC) being targeted and incarcerated in western countries.
Please look up white privilege, drug users vs drug incarcerations in race, how many white people are in power vs people of colour, salary gap between white people vs people of colour, how many people of colour (anyone who is not white) are main leads vs how many white people who are main leads in tv shows, movies and such.
Do you know that Hollywood decided to put in “more” Asian actors not because to be more diverse, but because the Asian audience will go see/ actually pay for the ticket if a famous Asian actor is in it.
Am I really being overly sensitive when I know that Jack doesn’t have to work as hard as Hassan does in getting a job? Am I really being overly sensitive when Stacy is being asked “Where are you from?” when she was born and raised in California all her life, but because she doesn’t look white she’s a foreigner? Am I really being overly sensitive when all the third world countries are people of colour. When most of the top of the universities are in western countries… except it’s easier for an Asian person to go into a western university, but it’s harder for a westerner to get into an Asian university.
Am I really being overly sensitive when it takes me 2 weeks tops to get my Visa to Pakistan being processed, but for my partner it takes a year minimum for his?
Do you really think that just because POC are born in a western country that suddenly they are immune to racism? You don’t find it offensive that people say “I don’t see colour”? As if one should be ashamed of the colour of their skin.
Just because it’s not cool to own slaves anymore, just because you can’t openly segregate POC and white classes anymore doesn’t mean the segregation isn’t there.
Yes, there are white people who are poor, but they are not poor because of their history. They are not poor because we drugged, raped, and introduced diseases to them. They are not poor because we stripped them of their language, culture, traditions, and history. Don’t you think it’s weird that almost all POC want to become fair or white… even going as far as bleaching their skin. The advertisements and TV shows are geared to make people be ashamed of their dark skin in South Asia when the majority are dark skinned.
The world is not made equally… and we have a loooong looong way to go till we are truly equal.
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^ Mind… blown!
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Why are you making such a mess? Who is going to clean all of this pink gunk on the wall and floor?
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My maid, who is black and given her skin color, this is the best job she can do.
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Naw, more likely to be Hispanic because black people can’t be trusted around your expensive tea set.
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They lack intellect to distinguish between expensive or cheap tea sets. Not a problem.
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Anyway, you just have to be more observant. racism is not just racism. We give the most disrespected/under appreciated jobs to our immigrants who just happen to be POC…
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and make astoundingly intellectually stimulating observations like the white conspiracy of putting all the people of colour in third world countries?
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People of colour is anyone who is not white… third world countries are people of colour… What third world country do you know that are majority white people?
Also, don’t you think it’s weird that Jesus, Beethoven and other important/famous figures in the world are white-washed? and why do you think it’s such a conspiracy???
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Now you have my attention. I will post about it, still its not racism though.
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As much as I dislike English-eurpion kind_males turning world(sports) and stuff to their own liking/culture, I still think it was not their plan, any other culture just could not gain power to influence such decisions.
I know china and india is getting their voice heard, But indians are more in rush to prove them self whiter then whites. No serious thing is being put forth by any other cultures so far.
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Okay, my last serious thoughts on this.
History of our world is cyclical. It is just a coincidence that we are living in a time when ‘white people’ are in power. It is human nature to look down upon ‘inferior’ civilizations. Just like the Romans did when they were powerful, or Greeks, or Persians or Chinese or Arabs. People from these economically powerful ‘races’ were considered “superior” by others as well.
It just looks more racist now because,
We immigrate to other countries much more than we used to. It would normally be people from economically underdeveloped countries immigrating to relatively developed countries and accepting whatever is on offer there. A PhD driving in taxi has accepted it willingly. He was not forced to go there and drive taxi. He made a choice. More people coming into a majority white country would obviously mean some friction.
Racism, as a social issue, has been raised much more now than it used to. We have much more access to information and news than we used to. Just like gender issues, sexual orientation, etc. People being more sensitive to these issues doesn’t mean they are on the rise.
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What? Who do you think invented numbers? viruses? Worlds fastest computer? Cup-ramen?
What exactly wasn’t their plan…? They made a mistake in accidentally erasing someones color? did they say oops and bombed people? did they sneeze and suddenly there were massacres?
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You are mixing two things. Of course there is racism. And it favors one color due to existing power structure. Se know that.
We simply disagree with you that racism is on the INCREASE. That just is not true.
