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USA is no more racist than other nations. Quite frankly I found Mexico and how there is a strict down the line white/red racial divide as the most racist national I've seen. Almost in the same vain as old South Africa and actually current South Africa.



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US is kinda weird in that it has a really ugly past which extends today into institutionalized racism, yet it's also probably simultaneously the most mixed country on the planet.

I kinda noticed this at Disney World Florida, while waiting in line for hours you'd have white families politely chatting with black families. There's also a lot of mixed race families in the US now.

I think Europe is more racist in certain ways, while more polite in some ways. I think most people in the US, even if they have some backwards racist beliefs still recognize they live in a pluralistic society, whereas in Europe, I think some people have a real problem with that and hatred there is different.

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I think it's because the American left still focuses on race so much. You mentioned Buzzfeed and I think that was a good example. There are racists on both sides but the left seem to really openly focus on 'blacks' and 'whites' in the name of niceness towards people with darker skin for some reason. They use terminology like 'people of colour' to intentionally make people with fairer skin the 'other'. All they are really doing is dividing the country.

The colour of your skin doesn't matter, it's the ideas in your head that matter and the colour of your skin doesn't dictate the way you think.



Locknuts said:

I think it's because the American left still focuses on race so much. You mentioned Buzzfeed and I think that was a good example. There are racists on both sides but the left seem to really openly focus on 'blacks' and 'whites' in the name of niceness towards people with darker skin for some reason. They use terminology like 'people of colour' to intentionally make people with fairer skin the 'other'. All they are really doing is dividing the country.

The colour of your skin doesn't matter, it's the ideas in your head that matter and the colour of your skin doesn't dictate the way you think.

We focus on race because racism still exists, and ignoring that isn't just going to solve the problem.



SpokenTruth said:
Ka-pi96 said:

That`s not actually true. It`s unlikely, but that doesn`t make it impossible.

Then you don't understand what systemic racism in the US is.

So recently Google has been under fire for intentionally passing over white male, and asian entrants. It also has received complaints for the company culture for white males currently working there. Would this not be an example of systemic racism in an organizational scale?



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The greatest American President so far has been an African-American, Barack Obama and he is loved by people around the world. Now America must endure the madness and chaos that is President Donald Trump for a few more years. Hopefully Trump gets booted and an African-American gets elected President in 2020.



Because its a melting pot culture and racism is nothing but stylized territorial behavior.



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SpokenTruth said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Your source about marijuana claims that more black people being arrested for marijuana posession and no black owned firms being selected to grow medical marijuana are systemic racism.

And you're saying it's literally impossible for a black cop to be more likely to arrest a white person or for somebody to choose to only deal with black owned businesses?

As The-Pie-Guy said, that's not systemic.  That's just standard ol' racism, bigotry and discrimination.  Systemic racism are the policies, practices, institutions, political and economic structures that are by design beneficial to one race over another.

Bigotry can be experienced by everyone.  Systemic racism can only be experienced by those the system is designed to disparage and disadvantage.

Aeolus451 said:

He can't experience it because of his race, right?

Because he can't experience it, what does that mean to his opinion and yours? Does it disprove his opinion? Does it mean it has less weight? 

Correct, he cannot experience systemic racism because of his race.  he can experience individual racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred, etc...but not systemic racism.

And yes, it has less weight because he himself dismissed the existence of something that he is unaffected by.  Someone without a peanut allergy claiming that peanut allergies don't exist has less weight than someone that actually has one.

Again, you're using his race to win an argument.

 He can look at data and come to the conclusion that it exists or not. He doesn't need to experience it, to figure it out either way. Anecdotal evidence is not conclusive. In science, it means nothing. In courts, it carries little weight when the person's character is questionable. Is that person believable? Do they have a stake in this?  Do they have a reason to lie?



Dark_Lord_2008 said:

The greatest American President so far has been an African-American, Barack Obama and he is loved by people around the world. Now America must endure the madness and chaos that is President Donald Trump for a few more years. Hopefully Trump gets booted and an African-American gets elected President in 2020.

This was ridiculous on a few different levels.  I hope it was a joke.



Man just to give a very quick point to guys...
If SJW and NGO doesn't point at "new issues" and just accept that things on political and law is already taken care, they won't have a reason to exist anymore and they would stop making money out of it... so they will keep pushing minorities down, saying indirectly that they are inferior and need protection so they can keep existing.



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