I don't think I even gave any evidence in your quote. — Judaka
. Blacks in american history were no questionably done wrong. So have the ancestors of all others as well. We have to not allow ourselves to be scared. That goes for anyone. We have to be able no matter the color to trust that others are good even if there are not. If crimes are being committed you must speak out. This is the same problem with religion. As soon as it is used to look for any thing else other than self teaching or practice than it immediately becomes harmful. There should be no debate if religion is real or not because it doesn't matter to anything but yourself. It is also meant to help you the individual. Not to give reason to fear or hate anything or anyone. To live in a free society we have to take many risks. But we should not have to worry about our safety in modern society to the point we let others commit crimes whether on the receiving or giving end of them. Fear is hard to overcome and so is judgement. So all that can be done is trust in oneself unless you feel you have done wrong, but is still trust in oneself. We have all been trained to think everything is going to go wrong and to place blame on everything. There should only be two crimes that need re-movement from society which are physical violence and abuse of power. All other small crimes could be dealt with in a better more beneficial for all way. But past that, how we let thing affect us, is up to us. Trust is hard. If we do it may help all but it will for sure help yourself. But the alt right will never go to Charleston if they thought that people would literally ignore them at all levels. They weren't marching for there own health benefits. And I am not talking about the media. Wouldn't it be great if would have turned on the tv that day and seen the media showing pictures of a bunch a racist walking around by themselves? Not only that, It is the only thing that can stop it. Now if they commit crimes then give them attention enough to remove them but any group that announces ahead of time when and were they will be and we clearly no their agenda, then it is our fault for caring what those idiots are doing much less go fight with them. Only thing we can control is how we handle the situation. We can't change the situation, but somehow, the way we react to it can reduce the "currency" they are receiving for it. .term “race” used in this manner has literally no genetic grounding — I like sushi
. Hence the idea that Europeans invaded Africa and fought there just indigenous tribes is either an ignorant or a condescending view or both. — ssu
You disagree Anglo-Saxon whites are sensitive to interpretations based on ethnicity or that other ethnicities/races aren't sensitive to it? — Judaka
As for your other comments, a lot of people are criticising you for being historically inaccurate — Judaka
I have a problem with you claiming that whites are responsible for things that happened before their lifetime purely because they're white. — Judaka
This idea of ethnic history is a huge problem in so far as negating the interpretative relevance of race, not to mention it doesn't make much sense to blame individuals for the actions of groups they belong to. — Judaka
So either you're blaming people who have been dead for a long time or you're blaming people for crimes on the basis of their ethnic heritage. — Judaka
What I am saying is that there are a lot of similarities between the east Asian countries trying to maintain ethnic hegemony and what the alt-right want, similarities between the alt-right wanting whites to be prioritised in "white" countries over non-whites in the same way that governments across the world prioritise their majority races. — Judaka
I was thinking more along the lines of what happened in Brasil. Most people remain oblivious to the utterly vile chapter of human history and focus being taken away by slavery in the US - I assume you know about the wholesale slaughter I’m talking about and why the “Tiger Coast” is called the tiger coast. — I like sushi
was referring to the “sigh” and my assumed ignorance — I like sushi
Black-skinned Americans in my view, should be taking responsibility for slavery just as much as a white person should, why? Because ostensibly they're both Americans and they're both living in the extension of the culture that practised slavery. — Judaka
If you would argue that white Americans should be taking responsibility for slavery but black people should consider themselves (as a group) victims of it then where does that kind of mentality stop? It's madness. You promote viewing things through a racial lens, you promote interpretations based on race, who are you helping? — Judaka
If we've got problems in society then let's fix them for all citizens of the country, not taking their race into account at all, that's what a non-racist country would look like. The problem is that people just keep trying to racialise everything until a white American and a black American are distinct and separate things. That opens the door to all kinds of problems. — Judaka
I want to reduce the interpretative relevance of race, — Judaka
That's what I am doing now, imploring you to stop thinking in such racialised terms and see people as individuals and condemn you when you don't. It may not make much difference but I will do my part nonetheless. — Judaka
term “race” used in this manner has literally no genetic grounding
The problems of the race become the problems of the people. — Judaka
I disagree with the way you've framed the topic to begin with. — Judaka
You're looking to explain things in racially motivated terms which may or may not actually be relevant to explaining something like the representation in statistics of various subjects. — Judaka
Ethnicity to me is the most visible way to interpret differences between people, it's also the least subjective and the most simple. — Judaka
When I tell you I'm white, you've got a whole story for me don't you? You've got so much to say, you could write a small paper on it. Well, I don't like that. I seek to discredit your way of thinking, I won't contend with it by using your fixation on race. — Judaka
If you can point out a particular example of racism then we're on the same team, I don't like any example of people using race to inform themselves about people. I will not deal with your race fixation, that's exactly what I'm challenging in this thread. — Judaka
Yeah sorry, I don't know what the "the post above" refers to. — Judaka
The big one you're being extremely guilty of and that's ethnic histories, whereby because you're white and because someone else is black, there's a three-hundred-year-old story for the both of us that paints us as enemies. — Judaka
Can a black-skinned American think back to the origins of Western culture and associate with it despite the difference in ethnic heritage? — Judaka
You want racism to disappear while maintaining a racially motivated outlook but it goes against common sense. A lot of what you're saying literally only makes sense when looking at it from a racialised lens, when you treat poor black people as just poor people and black victims of police brutality as just victims of police brutality, things change dramatically, it can't be avoided. The problems of the race become the problems of the people. — Judaka
It's not as if I am ignorant of race or ethnicity, I have just worked through what it means for that person to be that race until I had nothing of note to say. I want to focus on their individual characteristics and make heads or tails of them that way, rather than saying "he's black therefore he probably has to deal with this and that and he's disadvantaged in society and I'm sure he's experienced discrimination before and I could understand if he's angry about the state of the black community and how the government treats black issues". Similarly, when NKBJ has a book to write on me just because I'm white, that's no way to think.
I am quite aware that race is a factor to why certain people are unfairly targeted by police, I am not denying that. I'm not surprised that it happens though, when in America they continually show crime data by categorising offenders by race. Poverty, education levels, family circumstances, mental illnesses and so many factors but you tell everyone over and over that black people are more likely to commit crimes and people start to actively make that connection. Is it surprising that attitudes develop that stereotype young black men as criminals? Is it surprising that leads to disproportionate conviction rates and the like? Not to me.
Police brutality and similar injustices I think, already offend everyone regardless of whether it's your race being targeted or not. I am certainly not okay with police brutality no matter who it happens to, lets work through solutions as we can but honestly, I think the best solution is to stop drawing information and meaning from race, then people will not focus on race and draw unfavourable connections on the basis of race. So long as we continue to go down that road, I think there will always be racism — Judaka
Listen, that's got nothing to do with modern-day Americans with black skin, they chose to be born where they're born as much as someone with white skin did. — Judaka
You think so? This is already my second most commented on discussion by far and who knows, maybe it'll be the most commented on given time. I haven't really felt that many people have thought I am defending the alt-right, mostly people are just annoyed that I'm not accepting their leftist narratives. — Judaka
How would you rate the West in how racist and unfair of a society is relative to the rest of the world? — Judaka
In the OP you were saying more than that. You were implying that people criticise behaviour in the alt-right that they do not criticise when it is displayed by non-whites. Yet the examples of racism by non-whites that you have supplied are heavily criticised. If the double standard that you imply were real, the Burmese genocide of the Rohingya would go uncriticised. Yet the criticism from Western countries has been vociferous, even to the extent of condemning a former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.What I am saying is that there are a lot of similarities between the east Asian countries trying to maintain ethnic hegemony and what the alt-right want, similarities between the alt-right wanting whites to be prioritised in "white" countries over non-whites in the same way that governments across the world prioritise their majority races. — Judaka
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