Originally posted by Black Pearl I'm white too, I'm just not ignorant. Educate yourself, but you can continue bowing

Some Asians I meet look down upon me because I don't know my "own" language (Vietnamese).

Originally posted by Blatboy It's called english. You learn what the words mean and you use them in proper context. I don't think I'm the first to speak it??????

Originally posted by karron0624 I was in Chicago, and a cop pulled me over because he thought I stole the Mercedes that I was driving. SMH. In Arizona, someone told me get off the golfcourse. I get told I'm not stereotypical black all the time. Like WTF is stereotypical black? Some other stuff.

Originally posted by GreasyBruce In Latin America if you take the Top 10% earners and compare them to the bottom 10% the difference in average skin colour is STAGGERING. The Top 10% could be from anywhere in Europe while the bottom 10% are straight up Native American. This is not a coincidence, that's why it angers me so much when people say "but in POC countries whites face discrimination!!", no they don't. I've lived in Latin America and in my school British and American teachers would get paid 3x more than Latin@ teachers even if they had exactly the same amount of experience and the same level of credentials. It's illegal but no one does anything about it and it's accepted. At the same time in the media all things European and American are exhorted as being superior, if something is from Europe it's automatically assumed to be better than anything local or from Asia, Africa, etc. And if you can't connect things like that to how POC are treated in Western countries then you're a moron (in Canada, for example, a study was conducted that showed people with non-white names and surnames were 40% less likely to receive a call back from a potential employer than people with typical white names like Lily Smith, John Brown, etc).

Originally posted by rawwritsmikey Some Asians I meet look down upon me because I don't know my "own" language (Vietnamese).

Originally posted by shenzi Definitions aren't static. And racism isn't nearly as one-dimensional as you think it is. I don't care how sick you are of being called a racist on Tumblr and how everyone thinks white people are ****.

Originally posted by Ichinaru19 When my family was trying to adopt a cat, the adoption lady had the nerve to ask us if we were going to eat it (I'm Chinese).

Originally posted by RomanNavy Lmao I don't need to apologize for the **** my great great great grandfather did (IF they did anything that being said). Not people blaming everyone who is white in 2014 for slavery, rape and genocide that happened centuries ago. I'm 19 years old, I have nothing to do with those things.

Originally posted by downbywednesday So let me get this straight. Both Irish and blacks: - can be portrayed as savages - can be forced into slavery - can be forced to work for low wages - be forced to convert to another religion - have their land taken away from them - be murdered in riots and bombings - be profiled by the police - be barred from jobs and education - be seen as subhuman - whitewashed in films - be called ugly due to beauty standards - be ****ed over repeatedly by the British - be murdered in extensive numbers during wars for their freedom - be lynched - be targetted by hate groups like the KKK - be barred from immigrating - be viewed as lowing the moral standards of the US/UK - be viewed as equals to each other ...but it's inherently worse against one group and not another, even though the Irish have never been in a position of power?

Who said one was worse than the other?
People are just saying Irish discrimination isn't racism.

Originally posted by Blatboy Yeah, my specific friend I was referring to was born in Mexico, and came here. I've NEVER heard a hispanic person refer to themself as "hispanic" or "latino." Always their national origin.

Yeah I think those terms may be more used by American born Latinos than ones born in Latin America.

Yeah, I was debating whether it was racist or not since a stereotype I seem to get a lot is that Asians always know the language of their ethnicity. I don't let it bother me though.

Originally posted by bey0nce I never said they didn't, but black people from what I have seen tend to get extremely defensive about white people sharing even the slightest racist experience as if it can't happen which isn't the case.

Black people get "defensive" about this because in some cases a White person will get a dirty look from an Asian cashier at the corner store and then go home to use their iPhone to text their friends about how they were a victim of racism.

Or, in more severe cases, they'll wander into an environment of hostile non-whites and be called anything from "cracker," "Buffy," Becky," or "cheesehead.

No one is saying that White people can't experience racism. Anyone who implies that doesn't have a concrete understanding of racism.

What we're arguing is that, more often than not, White people benefit from racism because of a White power structure that has been in place for centuries and strategically infected its way into many societies across the globe (so well to the point that people don't even realize it).


We're not blaming the Whites today for something their ancestors did.
We don't think all White people throw out the silverware after we eat with it in a restaurant.
We're not looking to eradicate the White race or send them away to Mars.

We're literally jut saying,
"We recognize that structural racism has embedded itself into our society.
We recognize that this racism specifically is beneficial to Whites and detrimental to persons of color.
We recognize that this has been happening for centuries and shows no signs of going away any time soon."

Originally posted by Callisto. Who said one was worse than the other? People are just saying Irish discrimination isn't racism.

Originally posted by Callisto. This thread is so edgy.

Originally posted by rawwritsmikey Yeah, I was debating whether it was racist or not since a stereotype I seem to get a lot is that Asians always know the language of their ethnicity. I don't let it bother me though.

Originally posted by Blatboy And I don't care what you think racism is, sis! All of my real life colored friends aren't as backwards thinking as you in this thread and on Tumblr, so you can stay on the internet and keep trying to "fight fire with fire"