BobarinoTheBobcat
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Most of my friends believe that white cannot be victims of racism so this feels pretty unpopular.
Jan 1, 2018 5:16 PM
BobarinoTheBobcat
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Most of my friends believe that white cannot be victims of racism so this feels pretty unpopular.
huffdogg
TL;DR
MomToldMeToOpenImgurSoIDid
Everyone can be racist toward everyone regardless of their skin color. That's it. The sooner people realize this the better.
Septagrim
It’s not more worse is very worser.
TheTastiestTampon
Let them. I'll start caring when, as a white guy, it's actually represented in more tangible things than words and an omnipresent guilt.
IJustRippedMyShorts
You can't undo past injustices by committing current ones
babin711
Then you need to get different friends.
AgentObvious
In my personal opinion bigotry=/=racism. Racism is a societal systemic bigotry. You are less discriminated against by the system if white.
AgentObvious
Even if, on an individual level, you can face bigotry.
StalkerMagnet
This isn't unpopular on imgur. At all.
asmasm
Deeply dumb, but not unpopular
StalkerMagnet
I agree. White people wanna be oppressed SO BADLY, it's ridiculous
sadpersonissad
It all depends on the definition you’re operating from. Some definitions, like the one you use, say racial discrimination = racism. Some 1/
sadpersonissad
definitions say racism = racial discrimination from a position of power. When people say “you can’t be racist to white people,” they’re 2/
sadpersonissad
using the latter definition. Your experience is totally valid, just some people operate with different definitions. 3/3
Excitabletuba
I've found that racism exists for all races, but I've also found that I don't care, and I guess that's my white privelege to not care.
Excitabletuba
And it seems that, for the most part, other white people don't care either. Call me a honkey, idgaf lol.. it doesn't affect me.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
Actually, yeah, it likely is a part of your White privilege to not have to care.
AristotelianLogos
The worst form of racism is whichever form is legally or socially acceptable at the time.
StalkerMagnet
So police murder of brown and black people then, got it.
AristotelianLogos
If you can prove it was for no other reason than skin color, yes.
OfallthestupididioticWTF
well when you associate skin color with being a criminal or armed then yes I would say that yes it is a problem
eclect0
Not for "no other reason," but it's a factor. Cops seem to "fear for their lives" much sooner when a belligerent perp happens to be black.
GinjerbreadMan
Racism has nothing to do with the colour of your skin, it's an attack on someone else because of the colour of theirs. Any race.
PardusXY
So it's only racism when he does it? You sound like an idiot.
GinjerbreadMan
What? It's racism when anyone does it. You sound like an idiot, and rude.
BobarinoTheBobcat
GinjerbreadMan
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
I think people misunderstood you and so are downvoting. But it seems like you are agreeing with OP's post.
GinjerbreadMan
I'm saying racism can be done by anyone to anyone, no race is immune.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
Right. Which is what OP was saying.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
Not an unpopular opinion. I think you misunderstand the argument, however. Few argue that Whites can't be victims of individual racism. 1/
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
What more people argue is that in specific contexts, like the US, Whites aren't direct victims of systemic/structural racism. 2/2
BackwoodBear
I very much so agree. But the problem is we then get subjugated socially in response to the fact that we dont get it systemically.
BackwoodBear
Im not playing victim, im saying we all get it. It's just to varying degrees and intensity in different scenarios. No one is immune fully.
PardusXY
"Power+prejudice", he didn't misunderstand the argument.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
But, again, there is power+prejudice on an individual level as well as on an institutional/structural level. As such, few argue that 1/
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
being "racist to a White person" isn't a thing (on an individual level). 2/2
PardusXY
Out of the handful of people I have met who use that argument, you are the only person who acknowledges that racism vs white people exists1/