It's definitely a thing within the Democrat party. Any time a black person dares to stray off the Democrat plantation, the racist Democrats trash them.
Of course it is! Only racist people are not able to admit that we live in a racist world. And like I've said many times this is a problem that will only end when humans are no longer on Earth.
I don't think it's prevalent but it's still a thing, and it likely will be forever, if not for a very long time. If you had a few hundred people on the planet, it'd be feasible to completely eradicate it. But when you have billions of people you're bound to have plenty of bad apples. That being said, just because it is a thing doesn't mean it's a prevalent thing.
Well, I virtually never see anything remotely racist happen. And the few times in which I've had the opportunity to see a claim if racism and the entirety of the context that it regarded, the claim was almost always entirely unfounded or poorly founded.
Additionally, I can look to very reasonable, rationale people who happen to be people of color and view their perspective on how prevalent racism is. And the people who's perspectives I trust tend to say that racism isn't prevalent. It exists, certainly, but it's not prevalent, according to them.
Well if you are white than of course you aren’t going to experience racist things?
You might experience ignorance here and there but that’s about it. And the people “who you trust” are pretty biased. especially if you are only looking at certain perspectives to validate your own beliefs instead of looking at people who might have perspectives that challenge your beliefs
I've experienced a good portion of racism towards white people, but I know that's not the type of racism we're talking about.
And I didn't state "I haven't experienced racist things, thus, racism isn't prevalent." I stated that I rarely see it occur, and if it was prevalent, it would be something I see occuring more often. I also stated that the rare times I do see such a claim, it is illegitimate.
And based on what do you know the people I trust are biased? It seems like you're making a claim void of almost literally everything. The only thing you know about those people is that they think racism isn't prevalent, and based of that alone you can somehow know for certainty that they are biased? And even if you could somehow know that for certain, what exactly are they based against? That seems like a very odd claim.
And I did not state that I looked only at their perspectives. I did not search for these people in hopes of validating a conclusion I had already drawn. They just happened to be reasonable people who did agree with me. And I've had plenty of conversations with people with different perspectives (as we are doing right now), I'm not sure based on what you'd assume otherwise. They've just never convinced me of their perspective.
Affirmative action, for example, was racist towards white people (and men).
And these are just examples I can get with a quick, simple Google search. There have been many, many worse occurrences that I'd have to dig for. And these don't include personal experiences that I've had but simply didn't collected evidence of. That being being, don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to state that I'm a serious victim of anything. Racism towards white people, while becoming more and more common, is still very uncommon.
I asked for how you as a white person have experienced racism? None of these have personally effected you.
All of these you had to google search, none of these effect you.
And as for medical racism, the health care system I could talk about how that actually effects poc but that’d definitely go over GAGs limit and I just don’t have the time for that currently.
As for the kill all white men tag, it was a joke. And white men aren’t being oppressed in any way by a Twitter hashtag being popular.
The entire hashtag consisted of jokes, it was meant to be satire.
So if you saw someone on the internet saying "black people are criminals," you wouldn't say that you are experiencing racism?
And they all affect society in subtle ways, if not more. For example, I'm sure this race-based medicine wouldn't have come about without the anti-white rhetoric. But again, I wasn't claiming "I've been severely disadvantaged due to my experience with racism towards white people." So yeah, none of those examples have truly hindered me in any way. And I can't provide proof of personal (though very rare) experiences I've had with racism. I may have some screenshots but I'd have to dig through thousands of other photos or files.
As for the Twitter hashtag, I'll take your word for it, but I'm sure you and I both know I could Google countless other instances that weren't coincidentally, and allegedly, jokes. Additionally, I wonder how accepting of jokes and satire you'd be if the hashtag was "#KillAllBlackMen"
Lastly, just because I can't provide proof of my personal experiences with racism doesn't mean it isn't real. I noticed you didn't comment on affirmative action, literal institutionalized/systemic racism. Additionally, we could talk about Harvard and other universities applying different entrance requirements based on race. Just because I didn't go to these places, and thus was not subjected to their racism, doesn't mean the racism wasn't there. So just asking for my own experiences (of which people rarely wall around with a camera filming their surroundings, or somehow recording their conversations) isn't going to give you an accurate picture. I'm not asking you to just trust me that they're real, I'm pointing you to real-world ordeals, like affirmative action, racist entrance requirements for universities, race-based medical opportunities, etc.
Affirmative action hurts poc more than “white people” I didn’t comment on it because countless white people that don’t do their research have actually used this many times as an example of how white people are being oppressed and I don’t feel like writing a paragraph and explaining that all over again.
So to make things short, colleges are greedy and money hungry and because of that your social/economic class contributes way more than race ever could.
Affirmative action places poc in schools where they otherwise aren’t qualified for, and what does that do? That’s increases the college drop out rate for poc. Therefore poc aren’t benefiting at all anyways.
If colleges wanted more diversity than they would get more diversity if they made entrance exam fees cheaper as well as tuition.
As for you mentioning #KillAllBlackMan, not sure why you had to drag black men into this.
And if I saw something that said black people are criminals, I’d think it was racist but not really a personal experience with racism since it’s directed at me because of my race but no ones saying it to my face. If that makes sense.
I’m also not convinced that America is “anti-white”. I could include actual data on the racist history of medicine and how black people are more likely to receive lower dosages of pain relief meds just because of the harmful and completely incorrect narrative that black people have thicker skin. Or the fact that Due to residential segregation, majority African-American and Hispanic areas are more likely to lack hospitals and other health care providers.
When health care providers are located within majority African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods, they tend to offer lower-quality care.31 Often, people of color find themselves relying heavily on community health centers, emergency rooms or outpatient care, and community-based providers due to the lack of available primary care and mental health providers in a given geographic area.
Yes, I'm familiar with the idea behind unqualified placement and the inclinations towards failure. This, however, doesn't make it not racist, it just makes it a bad idea.
If the college has a racial preference for admission, racism has occurred independent of how well that student does. The white person was still denied admission due to their race. So when you say it "hurts people of color more than white people," that doesn't refute the notion that affirmative action is racist. So this is indisputably oppression of white people. Not to state that it does or doesn't exceed the overall oppression of others, but it is still oppression none the less.
And I'm using #KillAllBlackMen as an example of your likely bias, of which you 'coincidentally' didn't address. You mention me bringing black men into it, but don't acknowledge the statement that I used to do so? Due to this avoidance of yours, it seems like I may have been right. If Twitter had satirically joked by making "#KillAllBlackMen" trend on twitter, would you have described it as "a hashtag consisting of jokes, just meant to be satire" or would you say something along the lines of it being wrong, messed up, out of line, inappropriate, condemnable, or unacceptable? I get the feeling that you'd describe it as the latter well before the former. Because, and I truly am sorry to say this (I mean no offense, I just have to be honest and realistic), you're likely biased. I don't think you'd react the same way to "#KillAllBlackMen" as you would with "#KillAllWhiteMen."
And yes, I see what you mean about people saying something to your face. But you don't seem to be directly answering my question. I asked you "if you saw someone on the internet saying 'black people are criminals,' you wouldn't say that you are experiencing racism?" I get the feeling that the reason you didn't directly answer my question is because the answer would have been "yes, if I saw someone online saying 'black people are criminals,' I would consider myself to be experiencing racism" which would invalidate your stance that my mention of racism online doesn't sufficiently address your question of "I asked for how you as a white person have experienced racism?"
As for your comment "I’m also not convinced that America is 'anti-white'," that's not what I said. I said that there has been anti-white rhetoric. I did not state a majority of America is employing this rhetoric. It's a very small portion of people.
As for the history of medicine and people allegedly giving black people lesser doses of medicine, I'd like to see that. Because I am guessing that those cases are HISTORY, not contemporary. I simply can't imagine doctors nowadays thinking "ehh, they're black and tough, they don't need as much medicine as other races."
As for the residential segregation, people aren't saying "well those communities are Hispanic and black, so let's not put a hospital there." Unfortunately many black and Hispanic communities don't live in wealthy areas, thus, hospitals and other expensive services won't be as abundant or thorough. So it's not racism, it's misfortune.
As for the health care providers offering lower-quality care, again, this is due to the economic state of those areas. Those healthcare providers provide based on tax-income or whatever that person's job pays for their healthcare. And when these people live in bad areas, there's not a large amount of tax dollars coming in, and if they don't have a really nice job, their job isn't paying a lot of money for their healthcare. This goes the same for any white person living there or the same for any white person who has the same job. It's not racism, it's misfortune.
I'm an Asian too and people still make fun of my looks, my race, like it's funny. It's not my fault to be Japanese, to be Asian, to have small eyes. Everyone excludes what is different from them. I was going to school in America for a while as a kid. I was the only Asian in the class and they always excluded me. Even though I know I shouldn't be sad about it, I still feel sorry and cry sometimes.
Definitely. This is the entire reason for the Black Lives Matter movement. I hear about hate crimes all over my community as well as US nation wide. For example George Floyd.
I’m confused at how their putting it in a spotlight that keeps racism relevant. All their doing is calling out racism on a systemic level in order for change to happen. Cause if we don’t than nothings going to change and people are going to still get hurt
Of course it is. The concept of colonialism dates back centuries. It’s this feeling of superiority and power through someone’s skin colour. It’s a stupid thing, we all die one day so how is that powerful. We are human being, I don’t want to feel like I’m better then an entire race or nationality.
Scary how someone disliked this. Wish Gag let you see how liked and disliked posts so I could go on a block spree
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It’s ok I’m used to it now. There was a guy who said he hates all Muslims and Jews because he’s scared they will attack him. I said dude how many Muslims have shot you? He said zero, I said so why the hate. This level of hate comes from a reasons — what you are born to believe (even if it’s lies) and the media, and even friends who shape another individuals views as well.
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This guy was also on GAG who said that, I won’t call him out or post his profile, but I just ignored him after. I can’t deal with people who are ignorant, it just raises your blood pressure.
Yeah, GAG is wild. I’m not sure the mods on here even care cause I saw a person with a white supremacist pfp and I reported them but their still here and many other people with questionable beliefs
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They don’t care. I asked GAG on their Instagram why do they support that type of behaviour and they removed my comment on their IG page. I shouldn’t even be using this site tbh.
Yep, only it was once a matter of hatred towards another race. Today, it's a convenient construct aimed at making certain races get away with everything.
The word still exists. The actual function of said word changed immensely.
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Of course it is. But it's much, much, MUCH less of a thing than it was 5, 10, 20, 40 years ago. It's been going down pretty consistently for decades now. What's bizarre is that people seem to be behaving as though it's gotten worse. That's just 110% wrong.
IT WILL ALWAYS BE A THING. It's a fundamental part of human nature that is an unfortunate side effect of an evolved survival instinct related to the unknown.
A baby starts crying at when it experiences fear and fear arises from the unknown.
Racism - and ALL bigotries - come from the brain needing to avoid fear... fear of the unknown. When people, young or old, are inexperienced, they are filled with unknowns and this can instill fear. They have 3 options: Option 1. They can accept that fear and accept, for now, that they do not know. Option 2. They can get some courage and get the necessary experience to transform the unknown into the known. Option 3. OR, they can go the cheap way... not bother getting the experience first-hand, but get the knowledge from "authorities" - people who allegedly have that experience with the unknown that, to them, isn't unknown but "known".
I put those words in quotes because, often, these "authorities" and their "knowledge" isn't from experience, but handed down to them for equally inexperienced earlier generations.
For example, look at all the religions! One fear we all have is what happens to us after we die. No one - and that includes scientists, atheists, and anyone else - really knows because no one has actually ever come back from the dead and reported to us about it. Well, our brains will melt if we dwell on this. For some people, like me, I chose Option 1 above: I accept that I will not know while I am alive. Option 2 will kick in when I am dead. But, for a lot of people, they can't handle Option 1 and want to avoid Option 2 just like me. So, instead, they go with Option 3... they pick up some religion, often handed down by their parents, and accept as truth whatever comes after death that their religion tells them is the "truth".
Understand? Option 3 is all about having pre-conceived notions about the "truth" of what is really unknown without actually having the experience to eliminate the unknown. They get rid of this brain-addling fear by accepting a "truth" that may or may not be so.
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So, how does this apply to racism or other ethnic bigotries? Well, there are two kinds of people in the world: Us and Them. "Us" are the people we know about and are comfortable with. We can predict the behaviors of people who are part of the Us group. But, the Them group contains people that we are not sure about because we don't know much about Them. They make us nervous. So, we have 3 options: 1. Accept not knowing about Them. 2. Get to know Them... that will transform Them into Us. 3. Avoid getting to know Them, but accept as "truth" what we are told about Them from other members of Us. >>>>>>>>> This is bigotry and racism.
Yes, you are correct. Babies aren't born racist, but they are born with fear of the unknown. So, if their elders go with Option 3 and pass that along to the children, unfortunately many of those children will keep going with Option 3 and never even bother with Option 2.
It's only when people get to know each other - that is, practice Option 2 - that racism and bigotries begin to erode because the ignorance or false "truths" give way to actual experience and truths. That eliminates the fear and eliminates the bigotries.
Yeah its still a thing. I honestly think things such as racism, sexism, colorism, and every other favoritism based on your external and even internal factors will always exist at least for the foreseeable future.
Not to mention the ridiculous Hollywood directors who would rather pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a white actor play and Asian/black part instead of just hiring and Asian/black person to play the role 🤦🏽♀️
of course it does. you can't just end racism it's impossible. we have to bicker over something. everyone is it's normal, some are better at hiding it then others. these protest are pointless it's not going to change a damn thing. you don't even have to hate to be racist some things can just annoy you about a certain race. doesn't mean you hate their race
It is still a thing and likely won't stop being a thing for decades to come. But it is not as pervasive as often claimed. Cancer is a thing but it doesn't mean everyone has cancer.
Yes, but a certain amount of hostile racism has been replaced by paternalistic racism. Some hostile racism does still exist too, although there's far less of it.
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It's definitely a thing within the Democrat party. Any time a black person dares to stray off the Democrat plantation, the racist Democrats trash them.
Of course it is! Only racist people are not able to admit that we live in a racist world. And like I've said many times this is a problem that will only end when humans are no longer on Earth.
Oh yea finna get sum interesting answers asking that lol. This site is toxic and full of some of the worst racists
Fr, All the white men in the comments saying racism isn’t a problem don’t even realize how big of a point their proving 😭
I knew it lol and gags admins aren't much better smh
I don't think it's prevalent but it's still a thing, and it likely will be forever, if not for a very long time. If you had a few hundred people on the planet, it'd be feasible to completely eradicate it. But when you have billions of people you're bound to have plenty of bad apples. That being said, just because it is a thing doesn't mean it's a prevalent thing.
Hey don’t you think it’s prevalent?
*I meant why not hey
Well, I virtually never see anything remotely racist happen. And the few times in which I've had the opportunity to see a claim if racism and the entirety of the context that it regarded, the claim was almost always entirely unfounded or poorly founded.
Additionally, I can look to very reasonable, rationale people who happen to be people of color and view their perspective on how prevalent racism is. And the people who's perspectives I trust tend to say that racism isn't prevalent. It exists, certainly, but it's not prevalent, according to them.
A claim of racism*
Well if you are white than of course you aren’t going to experience racist things?
You might experience ignorance here and there but that’s about it. And the people “who you trust” are pretty biased. especially if you are only looking at certain perspectives to validate your own beliefs instead of looking at people who might have perspectives that challenge your beliefs
I've experienced a good portion of racism towards white people, but I know that's not the type of racism we're talking about.
And I didn't state "I haven't experienced racist things, thus, racism isn't prevalent." I stated that I rarely see it occur, and if it was prevalent, it would be something I see occuring more often. I also stated that the rare times I do see such a claim, it is illegitimate.
And based on what do you know the people I trust are biased? It seems like you're making a claim void of almost literally everything. The only thing you know about those people is that they think racism isn't prevalent, and based of that alone you can somehow know for certainty that they are biased? And even if you could somehow know that for certain, what exactly are they based against? That seems like a very odd claim.
And I did not state that I looked only at their perspectives. I did not search for these people in hopes of validating a conclusion I had already drawn. They just happened to be reasonable people who did agree with me. And I've had plenty of conversations with people with different perspectives (as we are doing right now), I'm not sure based on what you'd assume otherwise. They've just never convinced me of their perspective.
Can you give some examples of how you as a white person have experience racism?
Certainly.
Here's someone saying that white feelings don't matter and that white lives don't matter:
https://youtu.be/yxE4MHt2P08
Here's an example of race-based medicine giving access to medical procedures as long as the person isn't white.
patriotdailypress.org/.../
Or when #KillAllWhiteMen was trending on Twitter.
www.newsweek.com/twitter-hashtag-killallwhitemen-sparks-firestorm-335310
Affirmative action, for example, was racist towards white people (and men).
And these are just examples I can get with a quick, simple Google search. There have been many, many worse occurrences that I'd have to dig for. And these don't include personal experiences that I've had but simply didn't collected evidence of. That being being, don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to state that I'm a serious victim of anything. Racism towards white people, while becoming more and more common, is still very uncommon.
I asked for how you as a white person have experienced racism? None of these have personally effected you.
All of these you had to google search, none of these effect you.
And as for medical racism, the health care system I could talk about how that actually effects poc but that’d definitely go over GAGs limit and I just don’t have the time for that currently.
As for the kill all white men tag, it was a joke. And white men aren’t being oppressed in any way by a Twitter hashtag being popular.
The entire hashtag consisted of jokes, it was meant to be satire.
So if you saw someone on the internet saying "black people are criminals," you wouldn't say that you are experiencing racism?
And they all affect society in subtle ways, if not more. For example, I'm sure this race-based medicine wouldn't have come about without the anti-white rhetoric. But again, I wasn't claiming "I've been severely disadvantaged due to my experience with racism towards white people." So yeah, none of those examples have truly hindered me in any way. And I can't provide proof of personal (though very rare) experiences I've had with racism. I may have some screenshots but I'd have to dig through thousands of other photos or files.
As for the Twitter hashtag, I'll take your word for it, but I'm sure you and I both know I could Google countless other instances that weren't coincidentally, and allegedly, jokes. Additionally, I wonder how accepting of jokes and satire you'd be if the hashtag was "#KillAllBlackMen"
Lastly, just because I can't provide proof of my personal experiences with racism doesn't mean it isn't real. I noticed you didn't comment on affirmative action, literal institutionalized/systemic racism. Additionally, we could talk about Harvard and other universities applying different entrance requirements based on race. Just because I didn't go to these places, and thus was not subjected to their racism, doesn't mean the racism wasn't there. So just asking for my own experiences (of which people rarely wall around with a camera filming their surroundings, or somehow recording their conversations) isn't going to give you an accurate picture. I'm not asking you to just trust me that they're real, I'm pointing you to real-world ordeals, like affirmative action, racist entrance requirements for universities, race-based medical opportunities, etc.
Affirmative action hurts poc more than “white people” I didn’t comment on it because countless white people that don’t do their research have actually used this many times as an example of how white people are being oppressed and I don’t feel like writing a paragraph and explaining that all over again.
So to make things short, colleges are greedy and money hungry and because of that your social/economic class contributes way more than race ever could.
Affirmative action places poc in schools where they otherwise aren’t qualified for, and what does that do? That’s increases the college drop out rate for poc. Therefore poc aren’t benefiting at all anyways.
If colleges wanted more diversity than they would get more diversity if they made entrance exam fees cheaper as well as tuition.
As for you mentioning #KillAllBlackMan, not sure why you had to drag black men into this.
And if I saw something that said black people are criminals, I’d think it was racist but not really a personal experience with racism since it’s directed at me because of my race but no ones saying it to my face. If that makes sense.
I’m also not convinced that America is “anti-white”. I could include actual data on the racist history of medicine and how black people are more likely to receive lower dosages of pain relief meds just because of the harmful and completely incorrect narrative that black people have thicker skin. Or the fact that Due to residential segregation, majority African-American and Hispanic areas are more likely to lack hospitals and other health care providers.
When health care providers are located within majority African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods, they tend to offer lower-quality care.31 Often, people of color find themselves relying heavily on community health centers, emergency rooms or outpatient care, and community-based providers due to the lack of available primary care and mental health providers in a given geographic area.
Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416972/
Yes, I'm familiar with the idea behind unqualified placement and the inclinations towards failure. This, however, doesn't make it not racist, it just makes it a bad idea.
If the college has a racial preference for admission, racism has occurred independent of how well that student does. The white person was still denied admission due to their race. So when you say it "hurts people of color more than white people," that doesn't refute the notion that affirmative action is racist. So this is indisputably oppression of white people. Not to state that it does or doesn't exceed the overall oppression of others, but it is still oppression none the less.
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And I'm using #KillAllBlackMen as an example of your likely bias, of which you 'coincidentally' didn't address. You mention me bringing black men into it, but don't acknowledge the statement that I used to do so? Due to this avoidance of yours, it seems like I may have been right. If Twitter had satirically joked by making "#KillAllBlackMen" trend on twitter, would you have described it as "a hashtag consisting of jokes, just meant to be satire" or would you say something along the lines of it being wrong, messed up, out of line, inappropriate, condemnable, or unacceptable? I get the feeling that you'd describe it as the latter well before the former. Because, and I truly am sorry to say this (I mean no offense, I just have to be honest and realistic), you're likely biased. I don't think you'd react the same way to "#KillAllBlackMen" as you would with "#KillAllWhiteMen."
And yes, I see what you mean about people saying something to your face. But you don't seem to be directly answering my question. I asked you "if you saw someone on the internet saying 'black people are criminals,' you wouldn't say that you are experiencing racism?" I get the feeling that the reason you didn't directly answer my question is because the answer would have been "yes, if I saw someone online saying 'black people are criminals,' I would consider myself to be experiencing racism" which would invalidate your stance that my mention of racism online doesn't sufficiently address your question of "I asked for how you as a white person have experienced racism?"
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As for your comment "I’m also not convinced that America is 'anti-white'," that's not what I said. I said that there has been anti-white rhetoric. I did not state a majority of America is employing this rhetoric. It's a very small portion of people.
As for the history of medicine and people allegedly giving black people lesser doses of medicine, I'd like to see that. Because I am guessing that those cases are HISTORY, not contemporary. I simply can't imagine doctors nowadays thinking "ehh, they're black and tough, they don't need as much medicine as other races."
As for the residential segregation, people aren't saying "well those communities are Hispanic and black, so let's not put a hospital there." Unfortunately many black and Hispanic communities don't live in wealthy areas, thus, hospitals and other expensive services won't be as abundant or thorough. So it's not racism, it's misfortune.
As for the health care providers offering lower-quality care, again, this is due to the economic state of those areas. Those healthcare providers provide based on tax-income or whatever that person's job pays for their healthcare. And when these people live in bad areas, there's not a large amount of tax dollars coming in, and if they don't have a really nice job, their job isn't paying a lot of money for their healthcare. This goes the same for any white person living there or the same for any white person who has the same job. It's not racism, it's misfortune.
At GaG, it is always been weird. You got posters that believe in insane batshit crazy fruitcake nonsense.
But they don't think that their beliefs are widely accepted.
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I'm an Asian too and people still make fun of my looks, my race, like it's funny. It's not my fault to be Japanese, to be Asian, to have small eyes. Everyone excludes what is different from them. I was going to school in America for a while as a kid. I was the only Asian in the class and they always excluded me. Even though I know I shouldn't be sad about it, I still feel sorry and cry sometimes.
Definitely. This is the entire reason for the Black Lives Matter movement.
I hear about hate crimes all over my community as well as US nation wide. For example George Floyd.
The only reason it's lasted this long is because people keep it alive by keeping it relevant.
People like the one holding the sign in your picture and also the few who are genuinely racist as well.
The people holding up the sign are advocating to end racism?
@kevyhanma um. Your profile picture is of a black guy that I’m assuming is yourself?
Your not understanding what I'm saying.
Yeah they're advocating to end racism but they don't see that doing that and putting it in the spotlight like that also keeps racism relevant.
Also Kevyhanma is either a obvious troll or a black KKK member either way pay him no heed.
I’m confused at how their putting it in a spotlight that keeps racism relevant. All their doing is calling out racism on a systemic level in order for change to happen. Cause if we don’t than nothings going to change and people are going to still get hurt
They're not exactly effective at what they do given how high race relations and the topic of racsim has been since that started going on.
Not to mention the several towns and city blocks, ravaged, burned to the ground and looted all in the name of fighting racisms.
Of course it is. The concept of colonialism dates back centuries. It’s this feeling of superiority and power through someone’s skin colour. It’s a stupid thing, we all die one day so how is that powerful. We are human being, I don’t want to feel like I’m better then an entire race or nationality.
Scary how someone disliked this. Wish Gag let you see how liked and disliked posts so I could go on a block spree
It’s ok I’m used to it now. There was a guy who said he hates all Muslims and Jews because he’s scared they will attack him. I said dude how many Muslims have shot you? He said zero, I said so why the hate. This level of hate comes from a reasons — what you are born to believe (even if it’s lies) and the media, and even friends who shape another individuals views as well.
This guy was also on GAG who said that, I won’t call him out or post his profile, but I just ignored him after. I can’t deal with people who are ignorant, it just raises your blood pressure.
Yeah, GAG is wild. I’m not sure the mods on here even care cause I saw a person with a white supremacist pfp and I reported them but their still here and many other people with questionable beliefs
They don’t care. I asked GAG on their Instagram why do they support that type of behaviour and they removed my comment on their IG page. I shouldn’t even be using this site tbh.
Oh my god, same. I’m honestly just on here for the drama. Not to mention all the pedos on this app that they continue to support for some reason
I'm white, and unfortunately, racism is definitely a real thing. Not that everybody is racist, but racism is very present in our society.
Yep, only it was once a matter of hatred towards another race.
Today, it's a convenient construct aimed at making certain races get away with everything.
The word still exists. The actual function of said word changed immensely.
Of course it is. But it's much, much, MUCH less of a thing than it was 5, 10, 20, 40 years ago. It's been going down pretty consistently for decades now. What's bizarre is that people seem to be behaving as though it's gotten worse. That's just 110% wrong.
IT WILL ALWAYS BE A THING.
It's a fundamental part of human nature that is an unfortunate side effect of an evolved survival instinct related to the unknown.
Racism isn’t apart of human nature, racism is learned. I’ve never seen a baby get out the womb and immediately start hate criming minorities
Come on now. The only way to end Racism is to kill all white people. It's literally the only way.
A baby starts crying at when it experiences fear and fear arises from the unknown.
Racism - and ALL bigotries - come from the brain needing to avoid fear... fear of the unknown. When people, young or old, are inexperienced, they are filled with unknowns and this can instill fear. They have 3 options:
Option 1. They can accept that fear and accept, for now, that they do not know.
Option 2. They can get some courage and get the necessary experience to transform the unknown into the known.
Option 3. OR, they can go the cheap way... not bother getting the experience first-hand, but get the knowledge from "authorities" - people who allegedly have that experience with the unknown that, to them, isn't unknown but "known".
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I put those words in quotes because, often, these "authorities" and their "knowledge" isn't from experience, but handed down to them for equally inexperienced earlier generations.
For example, look at all the religions!
One fear we all have is what happens to us after we die. No one - and that includes scientists, atheists, and anyone else - really knows because no one has actually ever come back from the dead and reported to us about it.
Well, our brains will melt if we dwell on this. For some people, like me, I chose Option 1 above: I accept that I will not know while I am alive. Option 2 will kick in when I am dead. But, for a lot of people, they can't handle Option 1 and want to avoid Option 2 just like me. So, instead, they go with Option 3... they pick up some religion, often handed down by their parents, and accept as truth whatever comes after death that their religion tells them is the "truth".
Understand?
Option 3 is all about having pre-conceived notions about the "truth" of what is really unknown without actually having the experience to eliminate the unknown. They get rid of this brain-addling fear by accepting a "truth" that may or may not be so.
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So, how does this apply to racism or other ethnic bigotries?
Well, there are two kinds of people in the world: Us and Them.
"Us" are the people we know about and are comfortable with. We can predict the behaviors of people who are part of the Us group. But, the Them group contains people that we are not sure about because we don't know much about Them. They make us nervous. So, we have 3 options:
1. Accept not knowing about Them.
2. Get to know Them... that will transform Them into Us.
3. Avoid getting to know Them, but accept as "truth" what we are told about Them from other members of Us. >>>>>>>>> This is bigotry and racism.
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Yes, you are correct. Babies aren't born racist, but they are born with fear of the unknown. So, if their elders go with Option 3 and pass that along to the children, unfortunately many of those children will keep going with Option 3 and never even bother with Option 2.
It's only when people get to know each other - that is, practice Option 2 - that racism and bigotries begin to erode because the ignorance or false "truths" give way to actual experience and truths. That eliminates the fear and eliminates the bigotries.
Good lord, that a hell of an essay.
Yeah its still a thing. I honestly think things such as racism, sexism, colorism, and every other favoritism based on your external and even internal factors will always exist at least for the foreseeable future.
Definitely is. Also the amount of racists that this post brought out is saddening.
yes, it still is. I work as a extra at the background movies and tv shows and I see only a couple of Asians in every movies.
Not to mention the ridiculous Hollywood directors who would rather pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a white actor play and Asian/black part instead of just hiring and Asian/black person to play the role 🤦🏽♀️
of course it does.
you can't just end racism it's impossible.
we have to bicker over something.
everyone is it's normal, some are better at hiding it then others. these protest are pointless it's not going to change a damn thing.
you don't even have to hate to be racist some things can just annoy you about a certain race. doesn't mean you hate their race
to that i would agree but we can't generalize a few people's actions to the whole population.
we have to judge people as individuals, though at times it seems the majority of a particular group or race fit certain steriotypes
It still exists but it will wax and wane, personally I think we should just outlaw races and say we are all the human race.
I've seen it happen to all races too, natives, whites, blacks, Asians and more.
It is still a thing and likely won't stop being a thing for decades to come. But it is not as pervasive as often claimed. Cancer is a thing but it doesn't mean everyone has cancer.
Yes, but a certain amount of hostile racism has been replaced by paternalistic racism. Some hostile racism does still exist too, although there's far less of it.