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Originally Posted by Firewire
They would look pretty stupid as it's not a thought that crosses many people's minds. If I was confronted by someone who said that to me, I wouldn't believe that they truly meant it, even if they did. If I was threatened, I would believe them but I wouldn't report it as a racial attack. I would simply report it as harassment. I'm privileged as a white person. I'm not saying it's bad to be any other race, but white people just simple do not face racism.
Saying "All black people are disgusting and don't deserve to live" is completely unacceptable as black people still, to this day, suffer extreme inequality and discrimination. Until it happens to white people, it's not racism. Black people are scared to leave their homes in the U.S. in fear of getting shot. White people do not suffer this fear over their skin colour.
Black people can be racist towards other minorities like the Islamic community as they suffer extreme inequality and discrimination, probably worse in this day and age than black people do. But white people, simply, do not.
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I get what you're thinking and fair enough, but it's not just black people who are afraid to leave their own homes in the states. You've never lived there. You don't know what it's like. Reading biased reports on the internet is NOTHING compared to living in the states.
Most people are afraid to leave their own houses. It has nothing to do with skin colour. Yes, you get racist cops, but again, this is something that is ridiculously over sensationalized by the media and the internet.
I just think that hating on someone for their skin colour, no matter what privilage, no matter what history, no matter what skin colour the hater has, is just plain racism. I don't think there should be a hierarchy of 'who is allowed to be offended' because this is what it seems to be turned into.