This is nothing new, though. We just see it through an American lens. America has been doing this all over the globe for decades, except instead of black/white it's Sunni/Shiite or Hutu/Tutsi or whatever
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The Russia panic is really just us going "oh shit they did to us what we do to literally everyone else."
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But that would mean an honest discussion about taking responsibility for some 300 years of economically fucking over black people at every possible turn. And if there's one thing white people in this country are allergic to, it's taking responsibility for anything.
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As a white male who has dedicated every day of his adult life fighting injustice and caring for the less fortunate, comments like this are a gut punch. I don't do it for kudos. I do it because it is right. I do it out of love. And you would happily see me crucified. Such hate.
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If you truly weren't in it for kudos, you wouldn't take a general comment so personally. It's pretty fucking undeniable that categorically, white people in this country try to avoid having to deal with the sins of their ancestors as if it were the plague itself.
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And it is SO. GALLING. To see white people play the victim when called out on this.
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On every scale, on every level, whether it's personal or systemic racism being called out, this is what happens. The person doing the callout is 'mean'. It 'hurts'. You get 'allies' who are more concerned with the use of strong language than they are with the state of things.
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English is an inefficient enough language as it is without spending significant amounts of time making sure people don't get their 'feelings' hurt when they aren't even being talked about directly!
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Just like how there would not have been a "lavender scare" in the 50's if being gay hadn't been illegal at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare …
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Perhaps, we should write somewhere “that all men are created equal”. That might help.
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Pity that was written by a slave owner.
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But that smacks of effort!
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But that would be soooo haaaarrrrrd!
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or if it just didn't have them in the first place
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Racial tensions are the result of forced integration. The people responsible for racial tensions are the ones pushing forced integration.
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It's not America's fault, it's the people's fault. Maybe with one person you can talk rationally, but with a group of people there's chaos in every argument.
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