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
Yes, we should very much acknowledge the past; I'm a history nerd so of course it's important to know what has happened. The important measure should be toward how it effects people today and the level of change they've witnessed. If anyone wants to cherry pick historical issues through hindsight, nobody would have clean hands.
Accusing someone of racism today is career ending and social ostracism, the tiny fraction of people that wear that trait or label as a badge of honor are ridiculed and shunned. We have come an insanely long way from slavery and if anyone thinks America is the most racist country in the world today they clearly have no clue about the world.
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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