| hershel_layton said: It's gotten quite ridiculous. Nowdays I'll see people bashing whites without ease, usually with an excuse such as "white privilege" or "just a joke". Yet, when a white person does the same, they'll quickly be labeled as racist. |
I think all of us have rascist tendencies, conscious or subconsciously. It´s most likely biologically imprinted in our genome, to categorize and assess the world around us and always assess the threat level of other people. And we find open rascism within all groups of people, no matter the color.
But the thing is, history has been fortunate for caucasian people. We are not more intelligent than any other group, we don´t have any extra skill. But many of our ancestors have been succesful in invading other nations, or having slaves. So the "white privilege" is a historical heritage that has formed the society we live in today. And even though we, in a lot of ways, have leveled the playing field when it comes to legal rights, it takes a lot longer for people´s minds to change and for them to look at other people as equals. If the roles had been reversed and people from africa had established prescence in the US and gotten slaves from Europe, we would have been talking about "black privilege" today.
I think everyone should be able to bash everyone no matter what color of their skin, but we need to understand why opposition toward what white people say about black people is so strong sometimes.
