vivster said:
Shouldn't you be catching an Infowars stream right now? Nobody is demonizing all white men. Just the idiot racist kind. Much like the right isn't demonizing all black men, just the idiot racist kind. There are enough victim groups, don't try to add another one.
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But I think much of the issue that people complain about though is the fact that at least on a much more mainstream, socially acceptable level, you always hear about these evil or oppressive racist whites, sometimes when it's not even warrented - where at least in my experience, I've seen more blatant, ACTUAL racism coming from other groups, and there is little to no backlash for it from MSM or social media. There is even a popular idea that "blacks cannot be racist" or worse, "that ONLY whites can be racist" which ironically ARE racist statements.
Behind all this stuff there's this undercurrent that seems to justify it under the grounds that "well whites are the most privledged and thus it's acceptable to sort of bring em down a peg." While as a WHOLE this might be true, every individual has a far different experience based on a ton of different factors and traits so it's highly unfair to paint that broad brush. Also in the US there is no longer apparent SYSTEMATIC racism that exists anymore - that is, there are no longer rights or laws that whites have special access or can benefit from which people of color are barred from. Everyone here is now granted the same rights, protections, freedoms, equal opportunities etc.. The only TRUE inequality in our country today comes from the income gap and difference in environment, which nobody seems to be emphasizing from the mainstream left these days sadly.. I mean, the top 1% own like 90% of the wealth or something but in these days all you hear about is how X person is inherantly more privledge because of their skin color somehow..? But I don't want to get too far off on that tangent so I'll stop there.
Obviously on an individual level there are racsist people of every color and both genders but it seems to me that 99% of the time in recent history the only socially ACCEPTABLE form is in the form of racism against whites. Again I don't put too much into this but I think it's clear why some might respond angrily to that. I've always been against double standards no matter what they are.