I think the point of this thread is 'when someone is racist, they need to take responsibility for that instead of having their oppressor point it out to them, because that doesn't work.' Since white people rule the world, the most pressure is on the white people to own up to it.
But it's still a pretty crap thread, because it's not like every white person in the world is currently conspiring to oppress minorities and gain extra privileges. I really don't think that white people are going to start giving up their jobs because some other person of a different minority doesn't have one-- that's reverse discrimination, and it's completely unheard of in every single society across the world-- and forcing this forward through government is a sure way to
increase racial tensions. Like it or not, Europeans
built the west, and plenty of other nations have tighter immigration policies and aren't even half as accommodating. In fact, I would even say that the west is probably the LEAST exclusive society on the planet.
I've had this discussion numerous times about how white people are racist because of things they can't change and blah blah blah, but what the people who make this argument always seem to be clueless about is the fact that racism/openness is
relative-- they seem to expect white people to change but don't realize that exclusion/racism is far far more pronounced in almost every other part of the world.
If you compare western society to some candy-coated dreamland where everyone is employed and smiling and equal and brothers and sisters everywhere are holding hands in joy, then yes, the west falls short. But compared to EVERY SINGLE OTHER PART OF THE WORLD, I would say that the west comes out on top by a very very large margin. In terms of being proactive on an institutional level, the US is probably the
least racist country I've ever been to, and I've been to quite a few places. Seriously, before you go making idiotic, racist remarks about what white people are
supposed to be doing, ask yourself if you actually have a vision/plan/solution for all of these problems, if there's some sort of precedent for the 'most open society ever' somewhere else in the world, or if you're just angry because things aren't perfect (even though you don't have the slightest clue what a perfect society would look like or how it would function). This shit takes time and the bottom line is that white society is probably the world's most proactive in terms of fighting racism and promoting diversity… the idea that any other culture in the world should be remaking their cultural touchstones to be more inclusive would be laughed off in 80% of the world. Why not have a Japanese Allah? Or a black Buddha? Don't you think his golden skin is racist?
And we're not living in a colonial world, we're living in a
post-colonial one-- Africa isn't fucked up because European nations are currently interfering, it's fucked up because they USED TO be there and then after two world wars, they couldn't maintain their colonies, so they left it in shambles and now it's self destructing. There are a few opportunists who buy diamonds and do some war profiteering, but nothing is officially sanctioned. If you do just the tiniest bit of research into the subject, you'll find that this is true.
ALSO:
^Korean Santa Claus.
You'll also see pop stars and movie stars of different ethnicities. Just because most people in the west don't realize that these things exist, it doesn't mean that they have a responsibility to change their own institutions. And besides there is PLENTY of diversity on TV-- more than ever before.
There's nothing stopping anyone in the world from taking a cultural icon from the west and adapting it in their own country. Yes, the west has more money and markets itself better… but it's also more of a vehicle for promoting diversity than say, the also-wealthy east Asian cultural juggernauts-- which
only have Asian features and are basically clones of each other:
How fascist.
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