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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Try being the only white kid in a school in the NW territories and tell me you can't be racist against white people. Try getting beat up every day by other kids solely due to your race and tell me that. Well, they're just kids you'll say, but where do you think kids learn to hate? This was the mid 90s so maybe things have changed but I doubt it. Anyone saying you can't be racist against a white person is simply wrong. It's much less prevalent and NOT a societal problem at large but to proclaim things like that from a soapbox is, well, ignorant. Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. All racism is wrong and all racists are the scum of the earth, regardless of their skin colour.
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It's an interesting point, but personally I think this is one of those issues where ultimately the problem is more in the way the native Americans feel that they are being oppressed and taking it out on some random white person than it is about native Americans thinking of whites as inferior as people. Or to put it in another way, there's other reasons to beat up the guy that stands out than the offenders being racists.
The point is, trying to make the situation better by lecturing about racism to those kids might do nothing, and even make things worse.
What they need to be told is that the violence is not an acceptable way to air out your frustration.
Which also helps stop racists turning into violent racists.
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Or, they could in fact just be racists.