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white people haven't been persecuted, marginalized, minimized, vilified, uprooted, sold, abused and culturally and literally raped for the past however many thousands of years.
I'm white and my family is German with a Jewish background. I'm not discrediting anything you said, but to say no whites have ever suffered at the hands of others is utter bullshit.
You still hear all races make Jew jokes. I personally don't care, but I know some people that do. I also don't care who makes jokes based on race, as long as it's not racist.
I do disagree with any face that isn't your own face.
Hey man, yeah, the thing is though: I never said only black people suffer racism. I said I'm sick of the argument being, whenever racism towards black people is discussed, "Well, what about..."
Like you just did.
Of course, the persecution of jews, specifically the holocaust, which is what I think you're maybe getting at (although point taken about Jewish jokes), is horrific and unquantifiable, and the knock-on effect that had on jewish people and their culture in the decades that followed has been massively significant and traumatic, and we probably still can't understand what that has meant, but that doesn't mean:
1. It's the same.
2. That we can't talk SPECIFICALLY about racism against black people and cultures.
"Well, what about me?" gets nobody anywhere. Ever.
It's not like after the holocaust, everyone went, "Well okay, we went a bit too far, a bit too publicly there. Let's try a different approach and limit opportunities to, and fill the prisons with, Jewish people instead."
And Germany did at least something regarding reparation.
In the US you had slavery; and then government policies of segregation and lack of education/employment opportunities; the "war on drugs", and then the mass incarceration system. Which, while all races fall victim to that, is skewed horribly in the disservice of black people.
And white people are allowed to be offended by racism against black people, they're allowed to look back at what they're historically and socially connected to (maybe through no fault of their own, but still) and maybe open their minds a little bit to try and at least understand what happened, is happening, and maybe try to imagine just for a second what that's like. Even though they'll never really be able to, I'm sure.
I have no real problem with bigotry due to lack of opportunity, contact or education. If your poor as fuck and dumb, and have no money and time and hope, I don't feel like it's your fault for not having the chance to consider this stuff. That just makes me sad. But if you have an internet connection, and are interested in something as multi-ethnically diverse as skateboarding, and you know what Google and maybe Amazon is, and you still stay stupid shit, then I have no fucking time for you at all.
Not saying that's you, but there's a lot of people in this thread this applies to.