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Where is the evidence that: a) this increase is happening; and b) it's socially acceptable?
a) Twitter, b) Twitter.
Not really. Minor incidents of racism go uncommented on all the time. I'm fairly sure that unless white people are now being enslaved, lynched, raped, murdered by black cops, etc., then the kind of racism black people historically had to accept is a few orders of magnitude greater than whatever racism white people might have experienced recently.
Are now being enslaved? Are you saying black people are still being enslaved?
Historically, white people have been subject to slavery. We've had problems in the past with Algerian pirates lurking off the British coast and even raiding coastal villages, taking people into slavery. Of course this is on a much smaller scale than black slavery, and there's no evidence the Algerians were motivated by racial prejudice, more likely it was an economic motive, but actually the same is true of white people. The British fiercely lobbied for the abolishment of slavery, and it wasn't due to morality, it was because of economics. Strange, really, seeing as we were paying off the debt we incurred in 1833 for buying the freedom of all slaves in the Empire until 2015. Not sure how that's good economics, it's probably got a lot to do with where that money was going... slave owners.
Slavery has always been about economics. Blacks got it worse because whites were more advanced. Had it been the other way round, if it were black people who has the upper hand, then whites would have been enslaved en masse.
You are correct though, the level of racism white's are subject to is orders of magnitude less than what black's have suffered through history. But does that mean we should disregard it? If it's left unchecked, it progressively gets worse.
Saying it's there but not as bad as the racism directed the other way is pretty meh. It's not like anyone is arguing that only white people can be racist.
It's still a problem, and it's practically taboo to talk about it because people don't take it seriously enough, people take it as disregarding problems elsewhere when the opposite is true. Racism of all kinds is a problem, and it you start saying "well let's focus on racism against blacks first", that is actually a racist policy because it discriminates against people based on their race. To say to someone "the racism you experience isn't that bad because you're white", that's dangerously close to hypocrisy.
Of course, it goes both ways. The question is what level of racism are white people experiencing? Is it serious enough that we should be concerned?
https://twitter.com/squawkying/statu...84490067079168
If this were a black guy getting beaten by whites, there would be a great deal of concern.
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Originally Posted by oskar
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