DirtyDishSoap wrote:So it's okay to be a bigot against a majority? Are we talking on a global scale or just a continent? Just making sure so i can travel to these areas and just toss out racial slurs with no repercussions.
Guess i didn't miss much.
It's not a majority/minority thing, dork, it's relative to who wields the most power, and whether the beliefs (and often the power itself) are based on the concepts of racial superiority. If you want to travel to Nairobi and start shrieking slurs at random people on the street, that's probably indicative of some deeper pathology, and you would deserve whatever you have coming, but it's still racism due to the broader history of colonialism (both imperial and economic) and your apparent belief that non-whites are inferior I guess? I do not know what other reason why you would have an urge to do this. Is this some sort of holdover from your military career?
DirtyDishSoap wrote:Listen, racism is racism. Context matters. White, black, brown, purple, oompa loompa. If you're using derogatory terms to put down a group in some malicious way, it's racism. It's ass backwards thinking to think that a majority weild can be an exception.
Well, that's prejudice or bigotry, but not racism. I'm being pedantic here, I realize, but it's worth it because the only sort of person who gets worked up over the very idea that white people aren't targets of racism are the biggest bitches on the internet. Just massive intellectual heifers mewling for pity or relevance. Absolute porkers of discourse.
It's not about being "put down" by some mean words. It has to be backed by views of actual superiority and the means to act on it. If you've thought about being called a honkey or something for more than thirty seconds, then it's because of your own glass-smooth brain, and not a rich history of subjugation, genocide, chattel slavery, and economic domination historically and currently undertaken by an imperialist, nationalist, and oligarchic ruling class of nonwhite globalists.
DirtyDishSoap wrote:It's that kind of crap that people of color spew that i should be ashamed of myself because i was born white but my ancestors were ignorant idiots, so i need to be sorry and keep making amends for something i myself never participated in.
I was hoping this bullshit would have been killed but i can dream, can't I?
Holy shit dude, racism isn't about you. Leave it to a white guy to make chronic, systemic racism about himself and his own feelings of persecution. There's no basement for this kind of thinking it seems. This is how we end up having white dudes on a cryptofascist-friendly board game forum wondering whether white people are being discriminated against amongst a population of mostly Western and Northern moderation and userbase.