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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Racism is defined as:
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. 2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Looks like you can be racist and not be white. And that whites can experience racism.
Prejudice and power that is societal and expansive sounds more like "majority privilege" to me. Or also "Systemic racism". |
Ugh, respond to this if you want with your current focus, but this thread really doesn't need to swing into racism IMO, so I'll mention it in this post as a reference point (with the current focus in mind) but I won't mention it again afterwards.
As a white male, you can experience discrimination, prejudice, bigotry, but any claims to experiencing racism (or the male equivalent of misogyny) is not fathomable, because as the fully dominant gender/race you've never experienced any hatred or oppression that was based solely on your gender/race. Have you ever been turned away from a bar because you're white? Been unable to vote because you're white or a man? Been denied health care and told you're a murderer because of a decision you make about your body? Been looked at purely as a sexual object instead of a human being? Do people write songs about drugging men and raping them? Do you get made fun of for the colour of your skin? Do they have dehumanising names for you? Names you can't even say on this forum due to their severity?
There are "women only" clubs and gyms, organizations whose members are only for people of certain races, but is that racist or sexist? Well no. Why? Because as a white man, you have EVERYTHING. For every 1 thing you can't do because you're a man, there are hundreds of thousands of things you CAN do because you're a man, for every 1 thing you can't do because you're white, there are hundreds of thousands of things you CAN do because you're white.
The problem with Misandry and "reverse racism" is that both are designed to take attention away from those who need it, and place it back upon what is already the most socially dominant and privileged gender and race. Because white men are so privileged, the slightest knock on that privilege causes uproar and accusations of the same mistreatment that they have been handing out for hundreds of years, but I have yet to see anything even remotely comparable.