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Originally Posted by Dezzy

While the statement 'All White people are racist' is stupid, the idea that white people can't be victims of racism in the same way that black people are is very true because racism against black people is systematic and ingrained in both history and society.

It's almost certainly true that white people can't be victims of racism in the same way that black people are. But at what point does it follow from that statement, that white people therefore can't experience personal racism at all (they can), or that ethnicities other than white can't be guilty of being racist? In fact, a person can be guilty of being racist even if no one at all is being persecuted, victimised, or affected in any way by that person's racism. It's simply beyond the scope of the meaning of the word.

Again I feel like this comes down to the old, and totally illogical and flawed, argument that something "can't be a thing" if there is another, worse, example of the same thing. The idea that no one in the UK is suffering from poverty "because Chinese children are in factories!!". No one in the UK is going hungry "because there are children starving in Africa!".

While there are worse conditions in the world - there are still poor people in the UK.

While there are areas affected by true famine - there are still hungry and malnourished kids in wealthy countries, eating meals but not good ones.

While historical racism is horrendous, institutional racism is still a huge problem, and there are ingrained cultural racism issues towards ethnic minorities... racism and racist attacks on white people do still happen.

It exists. I don't know why people are desperate to pretend otherwise. Again I can only suppose that people have this idea that acknowledging it will somehow "dilute" other problems. Which is nonsense.