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I'm white. As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. All I see are white people bashing people of color, and other white p

I'm white. As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. All I see are white people bashing people of color, and other white people standing on the sidelines doing nothing concrete to stop it. [edited for clarity]

ElectricalPast 8y ago
Whites don't have to be in a majority to cause misery :) Exhibit A: South Africa. More specifically - even if whites continue to constitute a smaller and smaller portion of the US population, it is likely that whites will continue to have an outsized influence on the nations politics and economy through entrenched power structures.
moufestaphio 8y ago
>As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? I personally don't think it's a very helpful sentiment to say things like "If this group of people didn't exist, we wouldn't have a problem".
- candiodari 8y ago
  Yes, as can be clearly seen on the street in Mumbai ... or the Damascus (or frankly, the same thing can be seen in Paris). And those are just the ones I've visited.
- jefurii 8y ago
  > Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? Nope, I've seen racism perpetrated by people of every color to know that wouldn't solve anything. I guess it's an emotional response to the situation in our country today. I'm frustrated and sad that people who look like me have done and are doing so much bad stuff to people of color. When you boil it down, much of the bad that's being done is in the name of "preserving the white race" or some such. I don't think it's a bad thing to preserve the memory of my ancestors, but if the only way to do that is to hurt other people I don't think it's worth it.
to_bpr 8y ago
You're so virtuous. swoon.
- jefurii 8y ago
  yeah whatever. what are you doing to help things?
  - to_bpr 8y ago
    Bleating anonymously online about your own race in an attempt to garner internet points from racist strangers is “helping things”?
    - dang 8y ago
      This kind of comment isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. And unfortunately you've posted many other comments that break this site's guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). HN is not a site for ideological battle, regardless of which ideology you favor. We've warned you about this repeatedly. If you can't or won't use the site as intended, we're going to have to ban you, so would you please fix this?
genofon 8y ago
Even assuming your view represent the real situation (things that I don't believe) do you think that other races (I still use the term despite race not being scientifically a real thing for humans) will do differently?

ElectricalPast 8y ago

Whites don't have to be in a majority to cause misery :) Exhibit A: South Africa. More specifically - even if whites continue to constitute a smaller and smaller portion of the US population, it is likely that whites will continue to have an outsized influence on the nations politics and economy through entrenched power structures.

moufestaphio 8y ago

>As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? I personally don't think it's a very helpful sentiment to say things like "If this group of people didn't exist, we wouldn't have a problem".

candiodari 8y ago
Yes, as can be clearly seen on the street in Mumbai ... or the Damascus (or frankly, the same thing can be seen in Paris). And those are just the ones I've visited.
jefurii 8y ago
> Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? Nope, I've seen racism perpetrated by people of every color to know that wouldn't solve anything. I guess it's an emotional response to the situation in our country today. I'm frustrated and sad that people who look like me have done and are doing so much bad stuff to people of color. When you boil it down, much of the bad that's being done is in the name of "preserving the white race" or some such. I don't think it's a bad thing to preserve the memory of my ancestors, but if the only way to do that is to hurt other people I don't think it's worth it.

to_bpr 8y ago

You're so virtuous. swoon.

jefurii 8y ago
yeah whatever. what are you doing to help things?
- to_bpr 8y ago
  Bleating anonymously online about your own race in an attempt to garner internet points from racist strangers is “helping things”?
  - dang 8y ago
    This kind of comment isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. And unfortunately you've posted many other comments that break this site's guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). HN is not a site for ideological battle, regardless of which ideology you favor. We've warned you about this repeatedly. If you can't or won't use the site as intended, we're going to have to ban you, so would you please fix this?

genofon 8y ago

Even assuming your view represent the real situation (things that I don't believe) do you think that other races (I still use the term despite race not being scientifically a real thing for humans) will do differently?