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ShouldhavebeencalledAppollo · 03/08/2024 10:59

I am mixed race. Lots of people think racism doesn’t exist towards white people. My Dad doesn’t speak to several family members who believe they can’t be racist towards me (mum was white) because I am ‘half white so might as well be all white’ and they are not white.

Of course you can be racist towards white people. However, I do think it can be very different. I am not going to say it’s ‘better’. But I think it’s complex.

I think racism towards anyone causes division and I am sick of seeing it. From all demographics. And I am sick to death of seeing women attacking other women on the basis of race. Again from all demographics.

MagentaRocks · 03/08/2024 10:53

I don’t think people generally think the racism against white people doesn’t exist but surely you can see it is totally different. White people do not have a history of being oppressed like black people have solely for their skin colour. White people are not thought to be ‘lesser’ because of their skin colour. As a white woman I have never had to worry that I will be stopped by police because I am white, followed round a shop because I am white, and any other number of things that black people and other non white people experience in every day life.

I agree this woman is out of order for what she has said but it is in no way comparable to what black people face every single day.

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Comments like these along with the eye roll could be why it’s not taken seriously.

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