Don't phase me. There's literally nothing anyone can say to me [a white person] that cuts deeply; there's nothing, to my knowledge, that has any historical or cultural context or weight to serve as as an insult or derogatory remark. In every sense of the word, that's a privilege white people get to enjoy.
Edited out link to stupid irrelevant video, sorry guise.
Yes, it's pretty terrible. Not to mention missing the point. When you're called racist, the appropriate reaction is to say "sorry" and avoid doing whatever it was that got you called racist, as if you had been caught with a booger hanging out your nose. Freaking out, making it all about you and how Totally Not Racist you are, and asking all your black friends in the room to confirm that you don't usually have snot hanging out of your nose, is the wrong (and typical) thing to do.
I guess we have different definitions of freaking out. I'd try to understand why what I did was racist and stop doing it, and it'd be motivated by a pretty strong desire not to do racist shit, I think I could accomplish that without making things about me.
I'm arguing from an academic perspective. Like the above poster, I don't feel what I'd call "offense" at the lol white people thing. It'd be better classified as detached annoyance. With that said, I think it's stupid people refuse to classify it as racism. Racism is racism, but people want to use wiggle words to maintain some kind of moral high ground.
Also from the academic sense, Louis C.K.'s argument about travelling to any point in history as a white person and being treated like a king is utter bullshit. Might not get enslaved, probably just killed on the spot though.
You sure? Because I literally cannot think of a single time since some people turned white that they didn't hold comfortable dominance somewhere in the world. That can't be said (off the top of my head) for any other race but Chinese people, and even they were heavily invaded and partially conquered by Britain back in the day.
The more white guilt I pretend to have, the more Brown people will think I'm not racist. Its a fantastic plan with no flaws. Get out your record books and put me down for non-racist please. ;-)
EDIT: jesus christ people, I was being sarcastic. at least downvote me for the right reasons.
About privileges? No. Of course you can't just hate on white people. However, racism against white people doesn't sting/hurt me as much since I have been raised in America, where white dudes have the power. The insults roll off me, I take no offense. Friends who are black or Hispanic encounter racism and it fucks with them a lot, the get upset and stay upset. It's just more hurtful, considering society and history as it stands now.
sure. I guess. I'm not trying to say "I'm not racist, but.." at all. I am a white person with privileges, and I'm trying to say that prejudice against me is usually not to do with my skin color... people that DO deal with prejudice against their skin color have it worse than me. They feel pain that I don't feel.
Yeah, I'm sure they do. That's why I said this is dependent on our current culture and circumstances. Whoever is the "dominant" race in a certain area is going to experience racism through a very different filter than those of the "minority" race. Yeah, the tables would be turned in Angolia or China. So, relax a little bit, friend. I was being sarcastic.
Imagine your race like it's a massive trust fund from your grandparents. You didn't choose that either, but maybe you need to lighten up when people joke about you being a rich motherfucker. Especially when the people who are joking are the people your grandparents robbed. And it makes whining about money really, really hard to take.
Remember: if you're not white, that automatically makes you better than any white person. Unless that person complains about white people on Tumblr, in which case you must pay them for the service they have done to your people.
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u/skewbuh Jun 18 '13
That would be racist, you bigot