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originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
Blacks still hold power in most African countries, if you didn't get the memo.
The problem with your narrative, as well as other social justice warriors, is that you can't look at alternative examples nor specific country-level examples other than the globe or West, as if you did your narrative would fall apart.
A race doesn't need GLOBAL power to project institutionalized racism on to another group, they simply need SOME kind of power, whether that is being the CEO of a company, manager, or controlling a country.
originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: RickinVa
I think people are more offended by the implications. For example, "blackpeoplemeet.com" has white people on it, as well. It's inclusive but specializes in assisting hook-ups for a minority group. A "white people" dating site is catering to the majority and sounds exclusive. We already have dating sites that do the same thing for white people that "blackpeoplemeet.com" does for black people.
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: chishuppu
I'm not downplaying your suffering I'm refusing to allow you to use it to treat others differently because of it. Or more correctly I'm refusing to not call you on it. I despise racism in all it's forms, and just because you experienced it gives you no right to practice it without being called on it. You say you want to end racism well to do that, you need to start with yourself. How you can not understand that believing in the "white" race, and attributing things to people based upon their skin color that they did not personally do, and are not personally responsible for is inherently racist.
You want to end racism, no matter how much it hurts, you need to put aside what some people with white skin did that are racist and not let their racist beliefs make you in turn racist. Your believing in the "white" race and in doing so believing in the "black" race as well is allowing these racists to win, it's taking on the very differences they wrongly see in you and embracing it rather than refusing to let what they believe take hold and railing against it.
These racist told you, you were different, they told you that there are whites and there are blacks, that they're a separate people. When you agree by doing the same in kind, racism wins. Well they are wrong. And if you agree with them, you are wrong.
There is no "white" race, there is no "black" race. Race is a belief, like a religion, it's a thing that only holds power because people believe in it and refuse to let go of that belief. There is no "black" culture, there is no "white" culture. There is however multiple racist cultures.
All those cultures that come from a region in which most people are one skin color does not make the made up concept which is race that's associated with that skin color an inherent aspect of that culture. Take Africa for example, African tribes are at war because they don't see or believe in some mystical black brotherhood, they're just different tribes of people that happen to be black skinned.
This being said just because a culture is racist doesn't mean every aspect of it is bad, as culture includes things like music, food, etc too. Same as just because someone is a racist, it doesn't mean everything else about them is bad. But the racism, that's bad, no matter what originated that belief.
I understand there's prejudice people receive for having black skin, I understand there's been wounds suffered, and a socioeconomic situation created by racism that has caused many with black skin to start at a socioeconomic disadvantage. But it's not because of some made up white race.
It's because of racists and racism. It's because of people that thought their skin color made them special, and because of people that thought your skin color made you subhuman. It's because of corrupt people obsessed with power that took advantage of African tribalism to enslave people of African descent, it's because these people used the made up concept of race to excuse their treatment of these slaves, and continued to harbor and push these beliefs after slavery was ended. These people, these corrupt power obsessed people, they're my enemy too. Because it's not really about race for them, not the ones that caused this, it's about power. The little ignorant racist for whom it is abut race is just a tool. Those that created this situation actually know better, and they want me to have a better life no more than they want you to.
They want to use us, abuse us, and treat us all as subhuman and inferior, because neither you or me are part of their privileged elite.
So you keep pretending I'm your enemy because I have white skin, that others with white skin are also responsible for what's happened, for what racists who happen to share the same skin color did and are responsible for did and do. Those that are oppressing all of us really appreciate your assistance in keeping all of us peons divided and maintaining their careful orchestrated status quot.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: Puppylove
I'm not downplaying your suffering
I just want to say I am. Cause im 100% you and every black person I ever meet was never alive when slavery was around.
Its all in your head.
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
a reply to: RickinVa
We "Europeans" are knocked for wanting to meet someone like US.
Yet EVERY SINGLE other race/ethnicity gets to do it without anyone whispering a word.
And WE are called 'racist'. I've had enough. I'm done with the whole thing.
There is a reason predominantly African American community’s suffer from high levels of illiteracy, poverty, crime and unemployment and its not whites fault.
originally posted by: Misterlondon
white people are the dominant race in the USA, they do not need niche markets. .
If you reversed it and there was a website somewhere in asia or africa which was aimed at white people meeting white people I don't think it would seem so unusual..
The sad part is it's frowned upon to have a website aimed at meeting white people in a white country.. its just more pc gone mad..
originally posted by: boymonkey74
Is there a ginger girl dating website?.
I should attempt to go for Internet dating but it still feels wrong to me.
originally posted by: chishuppu
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
Blacks still hold power in most African countries, if you didn't get the memo.
The problem with your narrative, as well as other social justice warriors, is that you can't look at alternative examples nor specific country-level examples other than the globe or West, as if you did your narrative would fall apart.
A race doesn't need GLOBAL power to project institutionalized racism on to another group, they simply need SOME kind of power, whether that is being the CEO of a company, manager, or controlling a country.
stopped reading when you applied me to "social justice warriors", been debating with a lot of Jewish/Israeli folk whose main argument style is to put you in an undesirable group then argue based upon that group. Like saying you are like a snake then argue based upon snake behavior, no thank you.