(Serious) What's an example of racism against white people?
Posted Feb 8, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC
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Physical violence against white people due to their skin colour, refusing to hire white people, verbal threats, discrimination. Basically same as any other form of racism.
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Saying it's okay to raise taxes on whites and give that money to all non-whites. Saying that whites shouldn't have countries but every other ethnic group can. Adding points to admissions test scores of non-whites.
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Ah yes, reparations. I'm sorry, I don't ever recall my mother's side of the family, who came to the US post civil war, ever owning slaves. Did my father's side? Do I only pay half as much then? But I never owned slaves, so why am I being punished to "pay back" someone who was also never a slave.
It's just another way of making black people dependent on the government for money. Can't vote for anyone else if you're reliant on the guys you voted for to give you money.
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"Reparations for slavery" isn't a logical concept. It isn't possible to give someone reparations for the thing that caused their parents to meet.
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This is what we call regurgitating talking points. Not one thing you have said here is remotely accurate.
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Our problems are often dismissed, both by other white people and POC.
A lot of us are whiny bitches tho, so the reputation isn't completely false.
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Which problems are those?
e: Nobody ever wants to answer this simple question. I'm starting to think you can't, ya hosers.
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These are economic problems. And you keep voting for the people that want to keep it that way. Fucking hell, you are all so god damned stupid.
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Wasn't there a university which was purposefully holding back Caucasian and Asian folks for African folks in their application even with similar grades?
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Several do it because they only want ethnicities other than white or Asians, even if the whites and Asians are overall better students and in a sensible world would look better for the school than some students solely for diversity that are dumber than a rock
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I remember something like that.
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When people say "racism against white people does not exist".
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Not specifically whites in this specific case, but affirmative action is generally racist towards all parties, both in the workplace and education.
Apparently black people matter more than white people, but still aren't good enough to do anything of their own initiative. Doesn't come off as racist at all...
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Exactly. If I was hired as a quota and not for skill, I would not feel good about it.
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Not to mention that they inherently create a culture then where at least 1 side resents the other, and once that quota is full, it becomes undesirable to hire any more minorities from their quotas. Why?
Simply put, if I have 2 otherwise equivalent people I could hire, 1 black, 1 white, the white guy is the easiest to fire if I need to, so he gets the job. If he's a trash employee and I need him gone, some white dude (and I do specifically male in this case) is the easiest to fire by far.
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Everytime a withe police officer puts his hands on a black guy its racism,if i have a problem with a black guy im racist,if i live in a black community i get stares from black people...
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A friend of mine is white and lived in a predominantly native, poor neighbourhood. Walking down the street a native guy tells him he's in the wrong neighbourhood. He asked him if being poor and white was impossible.
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Your first sentence is a fantasy.
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I will give a serious answer, that likely most will not agree with, but I can prove it.
In the US, during the pinnacle of German settlements (circa 1815-1915), most largely eschewed the South because they were so offended by slavery and racial segregation. There were only two major areas that Germans did settle in the South, and that was Columbia South Carolina and Austin Texas.
I'll be damned, what do you know: the only two major US cities in the South that didn't have major Civil War battles were (wait for it): Columbia South Carolina, and Austin Texas. That's not a coincidence at all /s
Even today, 200+ years after the fact, many places that have large German American settlements do not have near the race problems, and there are still many places in the Deep South that still have very low numbers of those with German ancestry, and again, their problems with racism remains.
So there was and continues to be animus to those of German decent in the US Deep South, largely because many people are afraid that they will bring the concept of peace and harmony, and dare possibly put racists in their place.
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Remember kids, you cannot be systematically racist towards white people, but as for the personal prejudices of others based on race, that is still racism. Our system of government is in no way racist to white people, however there may be some people in our country that are.
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Try being poor and white.
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I am (poor, white and native). A lot of the racism in our country is just stereotypes that exist within classism.
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BET
Ebony Awards, NAACP awards
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To be fair, BET does say that it's their goal just to spread black pop culture.
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Black music has been dominant since the 20's
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It is the 20s True
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If it's racist to do it to a minority, it's racist to do it against White people. The problem is it has been (I believe less these days, no matter what the media tells you) more prevalent and detrimental to the minority communities as a whole. Things like systematic Racism (refusing to give loans, over policing minority communities) have led to in inequality.
tldr: Racism matters more against minorities the White people due to inequality. It's not that it isn't racism, it's that nobody cares.
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Finnish immigrants in the US in early 1900s, faced a lot of anti Finnish sentiment, and Finns were banned from entering into some buildings. Mostly in Minnesota.
Troughout our history with Sweden, there was also a lot racism during Swedish rule over Finland.
In both cases, there were derogatory terms towards Finns too.
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Being told your accomplishments/opinions don't mean much because you're white and that means your life was easy.
Assumed that you are racist if you're white
Assuming white peoples' lives are so easy that it's okay to be racist to them and it won't affect them at all.
Constantly exposed to double standards, it's okay to 'X' if you're not white
The whites are rednecks/trailer trash/incest lover jokes. To a lesser extent the whites are active shooters/rapists/serial killers.
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The amount of misogynistic racism against White women these days. Pretty much the entire internet has made hating on teenage white females a favorite passtime. Middle aged white women are also aggressively demonized nowadays.
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Chicken legs !!
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Ummmm... okay?
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White people seem to be considered racist no matter what. Try to enjoy their own native cultures? That's racist because your excluding other cultures. Try to partake in other cultures? That's cultural appropriation and therefore racist.
Don't be silly, white people don't have culture. Apparently.
*sad yodle*