Why is racism so normalized on social media in 2025?

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S.Peelman said:

yanis-bnth said:

And funny thing, their system suck because wydm North Africans are all considered white and Arabs too ? I mean some have white skin but we are not European white. My aunt had to fill this up. Idk how that works 

Europeans, North Africans, Arabs, and Indians (from India) too are descendants from the same offshoot of the group of people that left Africa in prehistoric times. The exterior differences like skin-tone is purely due to geography; Indians stayed in the sun and stayed darker, Northern Europeans didn’t and they became lighter.

Yup, just the body balancing Vitamine D creation and not getting to much sun radiation. The distance between where our ancestors lived to the equator determined the color of our skins. It's not something ethnicity wise either (at least if not going back to the cradle of homo sapiens that is).

An Ethiopian, Nigerian and a Aboriginal have a similar skin tone, but does not mean they should all be thrown in the same bucket called 'black'. It's a disservice to how different they are in looks, culture and pretty much everything else.

Same is true for all these kind of buckets. Just because a westerner cannot see the difference between a Han-Chinese, Korean or Japanese does not mean they can't. They see it from miles away.

Even in Europe we have differences between Celtic, Slavic, Germanic or Sami ethnicities to name a few. Easily distinguishable, not just the bucket 'white'.

I really dislike this simplification and spreadsheet thinking of trying to push people in thinking in bucket terms like 'white', 'black' , 'Asian' etc.