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    1 year ago

    As though white people can’t experience racism.

    Plenty of progressives believe precisely that, sadly.

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      1 year ago

      White people can’t experience systemic racism in the US. A whole load of people can’t articulate the difference between systemic racism and plain ol race based bigotry racism.

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        Anecdotally, but I (a white dude) have been told that my race would eliminate me for job consideration in the past.

        I’m not equating the systemic racism against whites to that suffered by other minorities, but to claim it simply doesn’t exist is wrong. I’ve experienced it.

        Edit: I should clarify that I am Canadian, but the culture is similar enough for my point to stand.

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        I try to make sure to verbalize the difference in these conversations and label them separately as systemic, such as government and other systems dictated by the majority race. White people can’t experience that kind of racism most of the time, because they are usually the majority party in those systems.

        And then interpersonal racism. The racism anyone of any race, creed, or color can experience and put out on others. You could be the last of your kind and still be a horribly racist motherfucker when it came to your interpersonal relationships. And you could hate and be racist against any race whether they are the majority or not.

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      I think the problem stems from there being two beliefs (that I know of so far) where people believe in systemic racism and some believe in social racism. My fiance believes in systemic racism where you can’t be racist to someone who is white because their race is in power of the government, we bud heads all the time because that doesn’t make any sense to me

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      What? No we don’t, Jesus conservatives are such dumbasses that believe anything they want to hear

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        Not a conservative, and I’ve heard people in person argue that racism requires you to hold power, ergo you can’t be racist against white people, since they’ve got all the power.

        Is it everyone on the left that believes it, obviously not. But there is a very loud segment that does.

        • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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          There’s a very loud segment of conservatives that belive Trump is the second coming of Jesus, but it would be inaccurate to state that conservatives think that Trump is the second coming of Jesus.