White racism

We shouldn't be ones to put all things on black people. People who say that black people are all on welfare which isn't true but what is funny is their are just as many white people on welfare as their are black and there's more white people are on food stamps then black people. I don't think any race is better then anything I just hate it when people of color say hey white boy/girl.

 

I've been called "white boy" and I'm Mexican, but I look white, so what do I do?

But remember, it's not the number of people on welfare or food stamps, it's the ratio. That's how you tell if there's a racial propensity for something.

 

Racism exists everywhere and for everyone. I live by a high school in a black neighbourhood and when the kids get out of school they're rather loud and obnoxious but also a little bit more than enlightening when it comes to their personal views. Many of them walk in the middle of the street and once a group of black kids walking in the middle of the street got honked at by a passing car driven by a white guy and I was sitting on my back porch smoking a cigarette watching this happen and the group kind of got over excited when this car trying to pass through the street honked at them for walking in the middle of the street and they all started hurling racially based insults at the white fellow who drove away quickly. I then heard one of them yell "White people is stupid!" followed by "Da black master race, uh-huh!" And I'm not paraphrasing that, these are words that came out of their mouths. This is the most prominent example I can think of, and it's something that stuck out in my mind. But yes, racism exists towards anybody for any reason.

 

I know that I'm just saying I know lots of people who say only black people are on welfare and how they all live off the system but in reality there's only a 1% difference of black and white people on welfare. And often people who shame others for being on welfare are getting some form of assistance themselves.

 

All people have the exact same start to life, and innocent baby born into the world. However, some people are born into poor families and some people are born into rich families. There are dirt poor white families and dirt poor black families. There are rich white families and there are rich black families aswell. It sucks for the poor families, yes that they live under such conditions, but you know what? If you don't work decide to work hard, you'll stay poor for the rest of your life. Other factors include graduating from highschool, and not having children out of wedlock, but i digress, that's irrelevant for now. If you work hard and are born into a poor family, you'll be rich or atleast live a good life. It has nothing to do with your race.

People here are claiming that POC's have to deal with extra rubbish that white people don't get like racism and dsicrimination? Yeah, what kind of discrimination? Have you ever been put down because of your skin colour? Were you turned down a job interview because of that? Are there white water fountains and black water fountains where you live? Black churches and white churches? If you can't positively to those questions, then please stop screaming diacrimination, realize what a nice life and country you live in, and enjoy life.

Now don't go telling me racism = power + prejudice. That's bullshit and you know deep down inside somewhere, that it's bullshit.. White people don't have power in the USA, anymore than jews had power in nazi germany, or conservatives think they do. It just simply isn't so. If you're calling american society white supremacist, please consider the fact that this white supremacist society allowed a black man to run and become president...for 8 years. Also keep in mind that in you're white supremacist society, that it's totally okay for black people to say the most disgusting things I've ever heard in my life, but the minute white person does that, it's labelled as racism, which it is, but shouldn't it work the other way around too?

Look, once upon a time, when you granparents were still young and had black hair and white teeth, there was systematic opression against immigrants and black people. People stood up for that when it became too much, and won, because they were in the right. Fastforward 50 years later, and you have this thread.... People who actually think it's morally okay to blame modern white people in the usa for shit that happened 170 years ago, just because they look like the people who owned slaves. All the hard work of martin luther king down the drain, i guess...

Why is this so hard to understand?

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Gosh, libertino, for a second i thought you were talking to me!

 

Oh, and people with black-sounding names are less likely to get a call back for a job interview than candidates with white-sounding names.

But by all means I look forward to more discourse pointing to the literal moral equivalence of, say, "cracker," and the n-word.

 

definition wise, yes, you absolutely can be racist toward white people. racism isnt exclusive to minorities. that's not an opinion; it is fact.

should racism toward african americans and other minorities be put before racism toward caucasians? that is a matter of opinion.

 

Could this be attributed more to low-class-sounding names, regardless of race? The problem therein though, too be honest, is that many people often associate names common for black people with low class. Of course, the spelling of one's name probably has something to do with it. Would you think better of a Jackson, or a Jakxon just by name? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think black people where I live have oddly-spelled names more often than white ones do.

 

I wonder that as well. There are low-class white names, like Bonnie Mae or Buford or something...and there's also a trend of giving white babies "inventive spellings", names like "Mayleigh" and "Kaydyn" and such. Those exude whiteness, but would they also ward off an employer? That I don't know.

My parents deliberately avoided giving me a Spanish name because they didn't want my name to be too "ethnic" (their words).

 

Racism can by definition, be towards any race. People, will try to argue semantics on the issue as there is a common trend these days to redefine words and terms to fit a certain persons or groups narrative. They may try to use ridiculous arguments like prejudice and racism aren't the same thing and you can be prejudice towards white people but not racist. At the end of the day, that's semantic arguing at its worst and smacks of SJW rhetorical nonesense.

Happy days

 

They are racist towards white people in Zimbabwe. Typically racism hasn't come against Europeans because they have been powerful for most of the history of globalization but it can happen.

 

The researchers considered this very question and found that such an interpretation did not match their data very well. Here's the citation, and you can refer to section IV, subsection B for their analysis:

Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S.. (2004). Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. The American Economic Review, 94(4), 991–1013. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592802

Well there you go... They didn't want your name to sound too ethnic. Not too poor.

 

Would somebody lock this thread already?

 

Why? Problem users have been suspended, and Chip raised interesting discussion. Posts have been within bounds at least since that point. If this thread makes you uncomfortable, you're free to use the report button and ask the staff to re-evaluate this discussion. But I see no need for that since the staff are already monitoring the discussion closely.

Discussions of systemic racism and the psychology of prejudice are always important to have.

 

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Can't love this sentence enough. Unfortunately, this is a trend I've noticed among some of the more vocal internet debaters (many of them young) who swear by the opinions of their favorite vloggers, with the belief that there is inherent superiority in the new media, yet they are no less biased or prone to circulating misinformation than any other media outlet.

 

Well, your friend is wrong. Of course you can be racist toward a white person. What if you were to say that all Romanians are gypsies, or that Ashkenazi Jews control the media? Both are racist statements against white people.

 

British school teachers have openly admitted that they blacklist children with 'chavvy' (read: poor/disruptive/troublesome) sounding names - my name, Aaron, is apparently one of them. Others include Taylor, Chardonnay, Chantelle, Courtney, Jade, Chelsea and Callum - names predominantly bestowed on working class white children, probably pregnant at 14 and on the dole by 18 - or so goes the stereotype.

I have no doubt that 'ethnic' sounding names are overlooked in many sectors (even with the stringent anti-discrimination laws we have), but poor-sounding names get overlooked too, at least in the UK. The UK is infamously classist - always has been - so class divides play just as big a role if not more so than any racial divide in our little corner of the world. In the eyes of the establishment, a working class white boy from some poverty-riddled estate in North East England is worth as little as a black teenager from Hackney in London (and the latter probably has more opportunities by sheer virtue of being born in one of the world's richest cities that disproportionately accounts for a large share of all high-paying UK jobs).

At this moment in time, in the UK, I'd say the most downtrodden towns tend to be almost entirely white British, with elderly populations, and isolated from any major source of employment - most of North East England fits the bill, after that region's dominant industry (coal mining) was decimated by that wonderful woman known as Margaret Thatcher, and many simply never recovered and the families living there have had at least two generations of 'worklessness'. The ethnically diverse major cities by contrast are thriving - and ethnic minorities have played a huge part in their success.