• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I’m not sure there is systemic racism against whites (as of yet). Or at least I’ve not seen any evidence for this. I do think there are certain activists that actually would be just fine if there were, though. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

      What everyone should be talking about is equal opportunities. Try to see things through another’s eyes. Understand the human experience has much more in common than we are different, etc…but instead, the new mantra from extremists seems to be that a certain set of demographics is elevated and another set needs to only listen because they could not possibly understand or empathize, so they should just sit down and shut up because humans are just sooo different from one another.

      Often subtracting any aspect of class in this conversation - so we have absolutely absurdist outcomes like: Will Smith, who has an amount of privilege that few in this country could possibly match, walks up and slaps Chris Rock (who is probably close to Will Smith in privilege level), out in public. And we had some of this fringe claiming that white people could not discuss this event, and really should not offer our opinion; it was a Black thing. WTAF?