Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color? We in The West have experienced a dominant white culture through decades of racism and colonialism. White thinking is, to this day, the dominant power structure in Western countries. To say racism against white people can’t happen, is indeed stupid. Individual white people can be hurt by statements made against their race. But it will never hurt the social-economic and priviliged status of the white person in current western society.
Read up on the Yellow Peril to learn why it is highly problematic to call Asians ‘yellow’ and why no similar campaign has ever been started to dehumanize white people.
Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color?
Yes absolutely, enslavement obviously not on the scale of black people, but if you say that stuff never happened to white people you’re ignoring a large part of the world. Racism against whites is very much a thing in Africa, Asia and probably all other non western countries
Point taken on the enslavement on white people in history. I knew someone would probably pop up to say this. It doesn’t change my point about current day white supremacy in Western thinking.
I do heavily doubt that institutional and societal racism against white people happens on the same scale as the Western institutional racism against non-whites, though. As I said above, racism from individual to individual may very well happen. It is the power dynamic involved in racism that changes the impact of it.
What about not coloring a white man’s face leaving it white? Also racist?
Have white people, the dominant race in The West for centuries now, ever been enslaved / racially abused / seen as lesser people because of their skin? Is walking around in any way dangerous for a white person just because of their skin color? We in The West have experienced a dominant white culture through decades of racism and colonialism. White thinking is, to this day, the dominant power structure in Western countries. To say racism against white people can’t happen, is indeed stupid. Individual white people can be hurt by statements made against their race. But it will never hurt the social-economic and priviliged status of the white person in current western society.
Read up on the Yellow Peril to learn why it is highly problematic to call Asians ‘yellow’ and why no similar campaign has ever been started to dehumanize white people.
Yes absolutely, enslavement obviously not on the scale of black people, but if you say that stuff never happened to white people you’re ignoring a large part of the world. Racism against whites is very much a thing in Africa, Asia and probably all other non western countries
Point taken on the enslavement on white people in history. I knew someone would probably pop up to say this. It doesn’t change my point about current day white supremacy in Western thinking.
I do heavily doubt that institutional and societal racism against white people happens on the same scale as the Western institutional racism against non-whites, though. As I said above, racism from individual to individual may very well happen. It is the power dynamic involved in racism that changes the impact of it.