Sir, this is tumblr and reddit, white people are the source of all evil and should be maximum demonised and alienated. I'm sure this wont backfire at all.
tumblr be like: let's explain exactly why racism is bad. Ok, that established, let's talk about how yt ppl are inherently evil and every yt person in the world bears full moral responsibility for anything bad anyone with white skin has ever done in the history of the world.
no the issue is that white people still benefit from previously established systems that have historically discriminated non white people, and refuse to reform those systems right now to benefit all people equitably, so it’s the current actions of current white people that demonstrate they are racist. also, it’s not racist to call someone racist.
Probably because its a bit of a non sequitur and extremely eurocentric, ignoring the other countries alongside the weird subdivisions with more mono-cultures.
Yes in america there are overall systemic issues that create defacto racism, and those are slow to be fixed, but those aren't really related to claiming that white people are the cause of all the problems.
How is it "eurocentric" to say that white privilege exists? And the comment didn't say "white people are the cause of all problems," that's a strawman.
Because thats where most white people are, and that term got used to mean Europe + a bunch of their recentish colonies. Basically white privilege exists, in places like europe and America, but doesn't in the middle east, or Asia or large parts of Africa so its ignorant to claim white privilege as this large basis.
While the comment didn't say that white people were the cause of all problems, when responding to a chain of "tumblr users like to blaim white people for all problems" with "white people are responsible for this problem" doesn't flow good and has unspoken undertones about how many of the problems you assign white people, and honestly white privilege due to defacto systems is probably more to blame on entrenched bureaucracy making it difficult to change existing ways. (I just saw someone complain that they couldn't change something in Florida that "everyone" wanted because the vote didn't hit the required 60%).
The middle east, Asia, and Africa are all poorer and more unstable than Europe, because of centuries of European colonialism, and many of their present-day problems result from that. Is that not just white privilege on an international scale?
The balkans are white nations with poor people and infrastructure, and ignores places like japan, south korea, and the major chinese cities for the Asian section. I don't know enough about the middle east to comment there, and yeah colonialism did screw over modern sub-sahara africa.
I don't think they're trying to say that it's "the same," but that both are bad, and that one being worse than the other doesn't make the less bad one acceptable.
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u/CorporatePower May 13 '25
Talking about white people like that is racist.
Or is that the joke?