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Originally posted by Repo
When Azealia is talking about "white people" she is talking about all "white people." As a whole. So yes, she IS referring to society and not an individual person, I'm not an idiot. However, that does not change the fact she very clearly is lumping every white person together as a whole. That's where the issue comes from. She's acting as though all white people are racist bigots who want to set back blacks at every turn. That's not true. If she wanted to say SOCIETY, she would say SOCIETY. Not white people. It's not hard.
She's also using the wrong definition of racism for the topic she's attacking. No one is convinced U.S. society is against whites. When people say "racism against whites," we mean personal, individual racism from one person towards them (AKA the dictionary definition)
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It's just impossible discussing these kinds of things with people like you, who insist on avoiding the discussion of race and racism outside the mainstream.
Literally no one thinks all white people are the same. When people say 'whites' or 'white people' they aren't lumping every single white person on the planet together. They are talking about whiteness, the ideology behind white supremacy, which results in racism. Whiteness is not exclusive to white people, people of color can buy into whiteness, too (tons of black people believe that black slang is not 'proper english', for example). However, at the end of the day, whiteness comes from white people, and is mainly practiced by white people. That is an inescapable fact, and to get angry at Azealia for her usage of 'white people' is completely ignoring that fact. It also exposes your misplaced concern - that you're worried at all about poor white people being generalized than actual racism people of color face.
There's no such thing as reverse racism, and there is no such thing as racism against whites. Racism in the real world is a system that maintains a racial hierarchy (white people at the top, everyone else below). A black man calling a white man a cracker is not an example of racism. It does nothing to perpetuate a system where white people are on top. It's certainly a disrespectful comment, but it's not racism.
What Azealia is getting at is that time and again any time whiteness is put under scrutiny, white people cry out that they are the target of racism. From that point on, things are pointless; the discussion now has to some how accommodate for white sensibilities. You can't do that while critically discussing about racism.
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Originally posted by qurl
wow it's like she's infected ya'll with her own delusion 
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wow it's like you know nothing about how race/racism works