#Breaking: Reverse racism doesn’t exist. Here’s why.
1) Racism = privilege + power
In order to be racist, you need to possess two traits. The first is privilege: A structural, institutional, and social advantage. White people occupy positions of racial privilege, even when they are disadvantaged in other ways. White women, for example, consistently make more than black women, because they benefit from racial attitudes. Furthermore, you also have to have power: the ability, backed up by society, to be a strong social influencer, with greater leeway when it comes to what you do, where, and how.
For instance, white people benefit from privilege and power when they aren’t arrested for drug crimes at disproportionate rates, while black people experience racism when they’re arrested, and sentenced, for the same crimes. This reflects a racialized power imbalance in the justice system. It’s about the privilege and power of white offenders (less likely to be racially profiled, more likely to have strong legal representation, more likely to be able to talk police officers out of an arrest) and the lack of social status for black offenders.
People of color talking about white people don’t occupy positions of privilege or power. Therefore, they cannot be racist. Racism is structural, not personal.
>low IQ
BTFO
tldr btw
Die in a house fire.
>>70495332
2) Anger is a legitimate response to oppression.
When “reverse racism” is flung around, it’s often in response to angry language, to protests, to fights for equality. People of color have been pushing back on privilege and power for a long time. Many of them are understandably pretty tired of it. Unsurprisingly, some aren’t interested in moderating their tone for a white audience. That means that sometimes they use strong language, out of frustration, rage, or to make a heavy impact on observers. Still not reverse racism.
More importantly, insisting that people of color need to be nice about the way they talk about racism is, in fact, racist: It suggests that, for example, “angry black women” don’t merit social attention, because they’re being unreasonable.
>>70495332
Why do you have white stars, New Zealand?
>>70495416
3) Attempts to rectify systemic injustices are not examples of reverse racism.
One of the most common pieces of evidence used as “proof” of reverse racism is that of affirmative action and minority admissions at colleges, universities, and some companies. The argument goes that people of color are stealing positions and jobs away from better or equally qualified white people.
This is not the case. The problem is that generations of injustice have resulted in underrepresentation of people of color in these settings, and the goal of affirmative action and related initiatives is to ensure that they aren’t harmed by racial bias in admissions and hiring decisions. People of color aren’t admitted or hired “over white people.” They’re considered equally, with an eye to the fact that subconscious bias may be influencing decisions made by people in power, who are, you guessed it, often white.
“White folks will tell me time and time again that Affirmative Action is ‘unfair,’” writes Jamie Utt, a diversity and inclusion consultant and sexual violence prevention educator, “because it discriminates against White people. What the term ‘fair’ assumes here, though, is that we live in a society where there’s an equal playing field for all students, regardless of race or wealth.” Addressing these injustices is intended to give people of color more opportunities, and to ensure that future generations won’t face the same imbalances current generations do.
>>70495332
>>70495416
Are you reading this off Facebook or something?
>>70495332
If you're shitty to white people solely for being white that's racism dipshit.
>>70495482
4) Having spaces set aside for people of color is not racist.
Whites are often resentful of clubs, organizations, and groups focused on people of a specific race, with membership closed to people who are not members of that racial community. The claim goes that such groups segregate and discriminate; after all, if members of those minorities cared so much about racism, they’d open their membership to all, right?
Josh Odam writes in the Daily Collegian, “One of my favorite examples of such a mentality is this: It’s unfair that black students have a Black Student Union when white students do not. To put it simply, the University of Massachusetts is a White Student Union.”
But it’s about more than that. It’s not just that every public space is open to white people, but that white people have an expectation that every private space should be open to them, too. Some conversations and community events need to take place behind closed doors. People of color may need to have sensitive conversations about discrimination, racism, and their lived experiences that are difficult to have when they are surrounded by white observers or people who talk over them. Such spaces provide a medium for doing so, just as members of the LGBTQ community use retreat spaces, and women join women-only organizations and groups for mutual support.
You know /pol/ is BTFO when they are grabbing ad hominem prejoratives straight out of the echo chamber
>>70495560
5) White people are not oppressed.
The history of the oppression of people of color by the West, and, by extension, white people, spans centuries. Africans were enslaved and brought to the New World, where European colonialists stole land from Indigenous people. Colonies across the Global South brought untold wealth into the coffers of Europe, with the low, low cost of suffering for native populations.
Today, we’re still living with the legacies of colonialism: In the United States, the black community is dealing with the aftermath of slavery and the poverty and systemic prejudice it left behind. In many African nations, the collapse of former colonies left governments in shambles and unable to support themselves. In Australia, indigenous people struggle with a high poverty rate and low access to health care.
White people, in contrast with people of color, do not experience systemic discrimination that makes it difficult to find and hold jobs, access housing, get health care, receive a fair treatment in the justice system, and more. When it comes to social disparities, they’re the ones consuming and receiving the bulk of the resources; in just one example, black women in the U.S. are more likely to die from breast cancer due to delayed diagnosis. That’s the result of racism within the medical system.
Despite the belief stated by some white people that they are more oppressed than people of color, their claims don’t bear out when looking at social metrics like statistical representation in the justice system, poverty, educational achievement, and unemployment rates.
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>>70495416
>>70495482
Yeah we get it you all have invented an argument based on semantics. You written it so minorities are infallible . What a shocker
>>70495332
>1)privilege + power
Self made up definition not respected by any scientist, I'm not going to read rest becasuse it's already obvious you don't know shit about it.
>>70495665
6) Prejudice and racism are not the same thing.
Some people of color may view whites prejudicially; no wonder, given the interactions of racism in society. Anyone can believe in stereotypes or hold ideas about members of other groups that are not entirely accurate.
However, being, and behaving, prejudicially isn’t the same thing as racism, especially when such prejudice punches up, not down. As Justin Simien of Dear White People puts it, “Prejudice and racism are different. A joke about white people dancing has no impact on the lives of average white people, whereas jokes about black people and reinforcing stereotypes about black people do have an impact on the lives of everyday black people.”
>>70495741
7) Hard truths aren’t racist—they’re just hard to hear.
Making a racist statement is a manifestation of racist culture; being “mean” isn’t. For whites, it can be difficult to be confronted with the reality of racism, and with comments from people of color about how privilege and power operate. It’s tempting to take such comments personally and to insist that people of color are being “mean,” which is often a hop, skip, and a jump away from an accusation of reverse racism.
In this case, the goal is often to invalidate the points made. If someone is being racist, surely her comments can be dismissed instead of taken seriously. Thus, a white person uncomfortable with a racialized conversation may claim that it’s reverse racist in order to escape the conversation, or escape her own role in racist power dynamics.
On the Internet, where such conversations fly by at lightning speed and often get heated, accusations of reverse racism often come in hot and heavy. It’s worth taking a moment to back up and hit those commenters with a healthy dose of truth serum.
when did this new definition come about?
>>70495332
https://archive.is/w2UyG
>Racism = privilege + power
You don't get to change the meaning of words you filthy fucking nigger.
>Anger is a legitimate response to oppression.
Shitskins aren't being oppressed in White countries.
>Attempts to rectify systemic injustices are not examples of reverse racism.
Giving a nigger preferential treatment because it's a nigger is discriminatory.
>Having spaces set aside for people of color is not racist.
Having "whites only" fountains isn't a problem, right, nigger?
>White people are not oppressed.
Nobody is.
>Prejudice and racism are not the same thing.
Actually, they are, nigger.
>Hard truths aren’t racist—they’re just hard to hear.
Niggers commit violent crime at more than 5x the rate of Whites. There are more whites living in poverty than niggers. Niggers commit violent crime at more than twice the rate of spics. Spics and niggers have roughly the same poverty rate (23% vs 25%.)
Niggers in every society contribute nothing but crime. It's in your genetics, monkey. You're an inferior subspecies incapable of surviving in a civilized society.
trying wayyy to hard straya
literally no one will read
>>70495332
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XU0BzQjpJM
>>70495332
Reverse-racism is a pretend word that always gave into the conceits of the left.
Fact of the matter is racism is universal, normal, and whites are best at it (like most things)
>>70495332
Yer a cunt...ya know...
And, your wrong on just about every account...just so you know...
>>70495332
>Reverse racism doesn’t exist. Here’s why.
>Australia
Well, must admit, you are good at shitposting.
>>70495665
>Blacks enslaved
Yes by fellow blacks and arabs who then brought them to the dock to sell to fellow blacks or europeans who may have been visiting
>implying 1.4million whites from spain to the UK werent enslaved by north africans
>implying they werent fully stripped of their culture unlike blacks who cam to the USA
>>70495332
kek
rule number one of sjw logic: redefine the argument so you are unequivacobaly correct
>>70495944
>>70495560
You mean like a seperate water fountain?
>>70495332
I dont think anyone would argue against that. But why would I want to allow them to have rights or power? That would take jobs away from the whites, there just inst enough of the economy as it is here in america to carry everyone including whites, so they come first anyway. That's the source of racism my friend.
I just posted this because I was bored and the original article had no comments section
>>70495332
fuck off when i walk into a store and every nigger in there stops talking and just stares at me like "what are you doing in niggertown" thats racism
>>70495332
also, its less about the color of your skin and more about social status. Nogs who talk civilized and function in society get easy rides from the legal system too
>>70495332
>Daily reminder that behind every Aussie shitpost is a depressed Australian crying for help.
>Do your part and help a bogan out.
>Tell him he's funny, tell him he's smart, tell him that vegemite is a real food.
>Australians are an important part of /pol/ ecology. Without them, the bottom-feeding Canadians will overpopulate the board and shit all over the place.
Where does it say racism requires privilege+power? Do blacks not get privilege though Affirmative Action? How do you know white women make more than black women because of racial attitudes instead of ability. Where is it sourced that "white people benefit from privilege and power when they aren’t arrested for drug crimes at disproportionate rates, while black people experience racism when they’re arrested, and sentenced, for the same crimes?"
>>70495332
>Racism = privilege + power
Opinion discarded.
>>70495332
>Racism= Privilege + Power
No, that's institutionalized racism.
Racism is discriminating or hating someone merely because of their race.
You are trying to change the definition of the word to make yourself correct.
This would be the equivalent of me saying
Racism= oppressed + weakness
Suddenly only the oppressed can be racist, not those in power.
>>70496195
The picture is nice, but your average kid doesn't learn a thing about any of those in school. All they learn about is WHITE PEOPLE OWNED SLAVES - MLK TOTALLY FREED THE SLAVES - ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BLACK AND AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN so the average person who watches the video of the sand nigger will just repeat the sand nigger bullshit the sand niggers spews.
>>70495940
Leave troll literally everyone including you is reading
>>70495482
What about Asians? How come with most of the hirers being white, they had a disproportionately higher acceptance rate than all others? Perhaps they are the true Übermensch? Yet they are discriminated against too. It isn't a race issue. It's a personal issue that people use race as an excuse for.
>>70495332
>Racism = privilege + power
OK and what dumb fuck came up with this equation? Stopped reading here, but did reply so 3/10 best I could do, not really mad.
>>70495332
>1) Racism = privilege + power
>if I define racism a certain way then I can't be racist
Well good job.
>>70495332
>In order to be racist, you need to possess two traits
objectively wrong
>>70495416
>Anger is a legitimate response to oppression.
This doesn't disprove reverse racism in any way. You're merely trying to say that those who feel wronged do not need to show any form of decency and excusing their actions.
>>70495482
>People of color aren’t admitted or hired “over white people.
This is not the case though, look at Dallas's fire department. You literally can not make it above the rank of lieutenant if you are not black. The current fire chief is racist as hell and will not promote anyone but blacks. That makes it racist or as you would say reverse racist.
>>70495560
>Having spaces set aside for people of color is not racist.
Actually it is. The Jim Crow laws are racist because they set aside spaces like you ask and it was ruled illegal.
> that every private space should be open to them, too
Except that's not what you're asking for, you are asking to set aside public spaces and turn them into private spaces that discriminate against everyone not of the chosen skin color.
>>70496256
Fucking aussies, get a hobby or something besides shitposting on /pol/
>>70495332
>>70496745
and forget the convenient fact that africans sold rival tribes into slavery and britain sold irish into slavery as well. a black guy was one of the first slave owners... but, of course they dindu nuffin.
>>70495665
>White people are not oppressed.
Except for the clear examples of where they are, such as Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
>>70495741
>6) Prejudice and racism are not the same thing.
This is literally just a repeat of Item 1 and is still wrong because you are playing semantics to try and change the meaning of a word to let you have your point of view.
>>70495810
>Hard truths aren't racist-they're just hard to hear.
The problem is many of your "truths" are opinions, or only truth when you narrowly define the criteria to make it a truth.
"We should kill all white people" Yeah that's 100% equally as racist as "We should kill all black people".
>>70495665
What happened over a century and a half ago is literally not an excuse to be underperforming now. Reminder that even though the whites were cruel in Africa, they brought many advances and saved many lives with better infrastructure and healthcare and education. I mean look what happened post apartheid in South Africa, the average lifespan dropped. Also you dumb shit blacks have a higher chance of getting the BRCA gene.
