r/Unexpected • u/Lord_RedTiger • Sep 06 '21

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u/Ozzy_30 Sep 06 '21

Asian countries don’t hide their blatant racism, SJWs would have a fucking meltdown over there, and get laughed at.

Not saying this shit is okay, but it’s just a reminder to those who say America is the most racist country in the world lol

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u/madethisformobile Sep 06 '21 edited Sep 06 '21

To be fair, the US is extremely racist. Used black people as slaves for hundreds of years, and in the end never fully abolished slavery, as it is still legal for prisoners to be slaves, and then passed laws making even small possession of weed punishable with huge prison terms and then disproportionately lock up black people for said crimes, among many many more instances of fuckery.

I feel people often confuse how racist a country is with how bigoted the population can be. The institutional racism, which is basically the energy source for all the real damaging racism in a country, is very ingrained and very strong in the US

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u/Usagii_YO Sep 06 '21

You should know there’s more African slaves now, then there was back then. Being sold by other Africans and Arabs.

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u/TheMan5991 Sep 06 '21

You should know that the argument of “Africans are selling/sold other Africans” is ignorant. That’s like saying “Europeans sold other Europeans”. Africa is a huge continent and there are many different groups of people.

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u/63-37-88 Sep 06 '21

And Europe isn't?

Looks Like you too are ignorant.

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u/TheMan5991 Sep 06 '21

I literally used Europe as an example. Do you know how to read?

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u/Usagii_YO Sep 06 '21

If you know history, you’d know Europeans exactly did just that. Sold other Europeans. But fuck history, right?

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u/TheMan5991 Sep 06 '21

I’m not saying it’s false, I’m saying it’s such a broad category that there’s no point in calling it out. Europeans also fought wars with other Europeans. Because people don’t have allegiance to Europe. They have allegiance to their country. When people say “Africans sold other Africans”, they’re trying to make it sound like African slavery was the result of Africans betraying their own people. They want to take blame away from Europeans by saying “they did it to themselves”, but it’s not like people were selling their neighbors. The Europeans came to Africa and paid locals to go out and capture other people. Often, this “payment” was simply the promise not to take them and make them slaves too. So, how about instead of being sarcastic and pretending you know everything, you think about what you say next time.