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[SvennoJ]

firebush03 said:

Oneeee-Chan!!!2.0 said:

In my opinion, the problem in society is that many white people, not just police, but even the general public, act like white police on the internet. They don't necessarily mean to be malicious, but they often unconsciously think of white or western privilege like it's a universal basic human right. So even whites who consider themselves liberal are often in fact just center-right wingers.

Could you give an example of what you mean by this?

Just read some of the comments on You Tube (wouldn't advise it) on news reports about Gaza.

Or compare how many believe Israel is committing genocide to the hoax of white genocide in South Africa.

Or all the suggestions Palestinians should just move to another Muslim country, as if A. they would want to leave their home country, B. have the means to relocate or C. that any country is looking to take in 2 million refugees. 


And white/western privilege can't be more obvious with the Israel-Palestine conflict. All this push against immigration, throw them out of the country (see the comments on ICE raids, so many cheering them on) while Zionists are the immigrants since the 1920s and the Palestinians should leave. Israel is build on illegal immigration and born out of terrorism. 


How much does the world care over 200 non white journalists have been killed in the Gaza genocide... You only hear about massacres on mainstream media when some westerners are involved like the WCK muders.

CNN covers every dead hostage retrieved by the IDF 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/middleeast/israel-recovers-two-hostages-bodies-latam-intl
yet never mentions the Palestinian hostages, either disappeared, location unknown, or part of the over 3,500 in administrative detention (no charges, no access to legal representation) or the over 17,500 arbitrarily rounded up since Oct 7 with over 10,000 in Israeli torture prisons, or those re-arrested and killed after they got freed in a prisoner exchange.


Activists like Greta Grunberg at least use that western privilege to draw attention to US/Israeli crimes. Even though the western media does its best to mock them, at least they're covering those events, and the activists are ensured a safe return because of their Western privilege. How much did the world care when 10 Turkish activists got killed on the freedom flotilla in 2010...

The documentary got awards but was largely ignored
https://freedomflotilla.org/film-the-truth-lost-at-sea/


It won't load on YouTube and hidden behind age restriction anyway. Only 10K views.

The trailer still works



But mostly it's the notion of "just move to a better country" that exposes 'unconscious' Western privilege.