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In reply to the discussion: This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)18. hippie shaming was a thing because it was based on values:
meaning hippies came to represent a set of values outside the norm at the time and treated with disdain. If you had cut your hair and wore a suit, people would have been none the wiser as to your philosophical leanings.
Racism is pernicious specifically because it ignores value systems, merit, ideology, and judges a person solely on their ethnic heritage.
Even in circumstances where whites were discriminated against by other whites, it was based on "ethnicity" , for example the Irish or the Sicilians or the Polish, but eventually these groups came to be seen as "white" as "anglo-saxons" . No such cover exists for black people unless you had african ancestry but could still "pass".
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This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism [View all]
MrScorpio
Jul 2017
OP
i grew up integrated + i loved it. little white me. i always felt racism + sensed it, but now i
pansypoo53219
Jul 2017
#3
i disagree, people who listen to that crap are already racist and listen to it because they agree
JI7
Jul 2017
#7
Not at all, for instance when a certain progressive radio host and a certain
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2017
#13
there are a shitload of people getting it passively along with news traffic weather etc who
certainot
Jul 2017
#15
in most parts of the country there are no free easy alts for politics and news
certainot
Jul 2017
#10
We had a black president. What we are seeing now is a backlash against the progress we made
JI7
Jul 2017
#16
Because being a racist is something that you either are or are not, obviously, with no in-between.
YoungDemCA
Jul 2017
#28
You claim correlation between cause and effect as an absolute, and offer zero evidence.
LanternWaste
Jul 2017
#25
White people stopped supporting democrats before Reagan. They stopped after lbj signed civil rights
JI7
Jul 2017
#31
there's a huge spectrum of degrees of racism based on life experience, education,
certainot
Jul 2017
#32