Why is racism so normalized on social media in 2025?

[JuliusHackebeil]

TallSilhouette said:

JuliusHackebeil said:

And if MLK was for equity, he was on the completely wrong track. Equity is poison to meritocracy and productive society. He should have much rather thought that black people would not need a hand out, that, given how generational wealth actually works (and how few people are actually wealthy to begin with), black people would make it at an equal playing field, because they are no worse than white people.

Just going by USA because it is such a popular example for race relations: in 1860, about 1,45 % of people owned slaves. About 8 % lived in a slave owning household.

If you want to punish the decendants of those 8 %, that is already a strange viewpoint. But to want to punish the decendants of the remaining 92 % of white people, that I cannot understand at all.

Inherited wealth is mostly spent after one or two generations, not amassed to form a big pile of gold that some people just lucked out of because of their race. Wealth, spending habbits, the economy are all more complicated than Mario Kart.

And very few white people were wealthy to begin with. Just 70, 80 years ago most lived in conditions far worse than any person in the USA today, irrespective of skin colour.

A youtuber screaming about past injustices (and slavery, segregation were injustices, obviously) is not a good argument for looking at the present and say: let us not help poor people, let us help black poor people, because they deserve it more. Because there are still disparities between groups. And everybody knows what disparities between groups must mean: racism.