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Originally Posted by bododie
O.K. lets say that anti-white racism is not
as prevalent as racism against minorites. Let's also say that in the mere 40 years since the equal rights amendment passed, that minorities have done a whole lot of expecting the entire white race to pay for "implied" sentiments because of past laws and actions. Do you expect me to be O.K. with this?
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How are minorities expecting whites to pay?
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Segregation is bad. Calling yourself an African-American implies that you wish to segregate yourself from me. Why is that "racial pride" and not segregation.
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Did African-Americans call themselves such first? Or did whites? It seems to me as if it would be something that the majority would have come up with considering it kind of implies that "American" = white... while there are African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans... there are also Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc. Focusing on "African-American" as a term meaning that blacks are trying to segregate themselves is kind of ridiculous when you look at all the other Dash-Americans that are out there. Some of those people perhaps immigrated from their original country (China for example) and have pride in that country (and so decided to call themselves "Chinese-Americans"). Or perhaps because this country is so mixed with different people, it is a bit more respectful to refer to them in a term which gives you an idea of what race they are while still maintaining that they are an American citizen? There are many reasons for this other than continuing to segregate.
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My only problem here is that minorities complain about how they are treated and respond by returning the sentiment that they supposedly abhor. WTF mate!
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Uhm. "Minorities" don't respond by returning the sentiment that they abhor. Some minorities may. But not even the majority do.
However, when you are constantly under some kind of attack.. it's really hard to "be the better person" and not harbor some resentment towards that majority that is attacking you (I'm not talking about just physical attacks). As I said.. it has only been 40 years since people have even been able to marry other races. It takes time for things to change (head down south or to the midwest and tell me that there isn't rampant racism against minorities) on the majority side.. and as that happens then the resentment will go away. People are expecting miracles here! It takes time! But again.. pretending that it's not there or getting pissed at the minority for being upset is a waste of time and slows the process down.
Trying to say things like "Well, things aren't changing because 20% of the population just won't let it go!" is lame. The 70% has to start making the changes first. The 20% can't really do isht until that happens.
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Is anti white racism a "nicer" form of racism?
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No.