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What are you trying to say? Racism against white is OK because whites are not a protected class?
by supergirl 10y ago
What are you trying to say? Racism against white is OK because whites are not a protected class?
- kapauldo 10y agoThis was not real racism. It was fake racism to make a point. It is in itself racist because it delegitimizes actual racism with bogus false equivalency. It's like when racists say "all lives matter."
- supergirl 10y agoFrom Twitter's point of view one post was racist (or abusive, whatever) and one was not. I think here people are more interested if Twitter did the right thing not if the guy doing the experiment did the right thing. But of course you can judge them both.
- SwellJoe 10y agoI'm saying racism against white people holds approximately* no power in the US. Being white will approximately never prevent you from getting a job, getting a promotion, holding public office, feeling safe around police, being treated fairly by teachers, etc. Because it holds no power, it is (rightly) seen as a harmless joke when someone makes a racist comment about white folks. White folks don't feel a twinge of fear when they see something like that on twitter or wherever it is. People of color do, because they know it is genuinely reflected in the sentiments and actions of their white neighbors, their white bosses, etc. * - I use the word approximately, because I'm sure there are some very limited cases where being white could be a disadvantage, but they are vastly outnumbered by the situations where being white is an advantage.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI'm white, and the police fucking terrify me.