Its not as simple as 'if you dont like it leave'

that isnt the American way, and it is selfish to say that.

Such an unproductive thread.

would you move from somewhere you were raised in all your life?

fuk the media

I wasn't saying that I want racism to empower someone. I was saying that a definition of 'racism' can be disempowering if it doesn't state that racism is oppressive, because that kind of definition doesn't enable anti-racism to be about removing systematic oppression. It would then mean that getting rid of racism would be akin to getting rid of name-calling--and that's not as helpful.

Oppression is systematic; it's about taking a population and making it feel inferior ... taking away rights and privileges, removing economic mobility, and so on. When you bash someone for being black, it connects to a history of oppression that partly began (at least within the US) as a brute force oppression in the form of slavery. That bashing refers back to a history of oppression that has morphed from slavery to generalized unfairness, including police profiling, police brutality, and neglect for the needs of predominantly black neighbourhoods, for example. Whereas when you bash someone for being white, you can't look at the present day political and economic structure of a nation and connect the bashing back to oppression, and you certainly can't refer to a history of oppression. There are differences at the levels of consciousness and embodiment.

It's the same way if someone is bashing gays. That's oppressive. If you make fun of someone for being hetero it's just being stupid.

"Whereas when you bash someone for being white ... you certainly can't refer to a history of oppression."

FACT CHECK: FALSE

the very word "slavery" comes from the enslavement & oppression of whites called Slavs (modern day Russians/Ukrainians/Belorusians) by Arabs & Asians



Knowing that when there is a police shooting, black citizens are more likely to be shot by black officers, the conspiracy theory of blacks being persecuted by police because of their skin color loses all merit. Meaning that youve just pushed a false narrative which radicalises people into thinking there is a racial aspect in policing of blacks (when there isnt one), which in turn further widens the racial divide under your false premise.

It's telling that you wrote blacks, and not non-whites in general. That's because only blacks seem to have this problem of "police profiling", real reasons simply stemming from the fact that their community is responsible for the majority of murders and violent crime, and police of all colors no-doubt knowing these statistics - thus feeling much more in fear of their lives around them.



How brute-force was it when fellow Africans were selling their own people to the whites?

Knowing that Africans invented slavery in Egypt & enslaved Jews and others, the fact above is not surprising at all.

Knowing that unlike whites, the arabs did not end the arabic slave trade to this day and are still selling & buying blacks for as little as 200$ in Lybia for example, does this mean you can't be racist against arabs too ?



have they tried a different pattern of voting in these black neighbourhoods?
or is it self-imposed one-party rule for decades upon decades, electing the same people (often voted in by skin color instead of by policy promises) until they're 80years old and die while still occupying political office, with nothing to show to their community for the time spent "serving"?



only oppression i can see is left-wingers of different colors popularizing the dangerous narrative of supposed non-white-inferiority, mirroring evolved KKK talking points to do so:
> non-whites simply unequiped to do something (in this case racism) because they are not white

this false & dangerous narrative has needlesly enlarged the racial divide, and has gotten people killed, by radicalising non-whites into "fighting" the imaginary "oppression" through murder of the "oppressor", and YOU are contributing to all of this by pushing it

This post was edited by HeLiCaL on Oct 1 2020 10:04pm

Skittles white pride edition? LOL

Saw at walmart today. If that's not racist idk wat is

Holy shit, racist as fukkk time to cancel skkkittles

Skkkittles are fire

I bought all the white pride bags. Figured be worth money in the future. Skittles will prolly buy them off of me

This post was edited by HydroPK on Oct 1 2020 10:21pm

In the history of the world, various forms of oppression have existed. I agree. But in recent and contemporary US history, blacks have been oppressed, and whites have not been oppressed (well, except for white women, white gays, white lesbians, etc.--white men haven't been oppressed). That's really all I can say to make the point that basically everything you said in your reply points to information that has no connection to the fact of the matter, viz., that black people in the US today are subjects of racism/oppression and (at least most) whites are not subject to oppression--and none except perhaps Jew are really subjected to racism.