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The reason racism is bad is it leads to harmful discrimination against minorites with material consequences (not just hurt feelings).
No matter what gets posted on reddit, you are not going to lose your job for being white. People will not avoid you in public because you are white. Police will not brutalize you for being white. You don't have to worry about being treated like a second class citizen. Against a majority group, there can be no racism, if I say "white people suck" the worst thing that could possibly come from that is someone's feelings get hurt.
Comment by Technetium_97 at 30/06/2020 at 18:07 UTC
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The reason racism is bad is because it leads to harmful discrimination with material consequences.
you are not going to lose your job for being white
You just won't be hired in the first place because the company has a diversity ~~quota~~ *initiative* you don't help with.
People will not avoid you in public because you are white.
White kids growing up in majority black neighborhoods get bullied and ostracized all the time.
Against a majority group, there can be no racism, if I say "white people suck" the worst thing that could possibly come from that is someone's feelings get hurt.
Or you could radicalize yourself / others to the point they literally commit terrorism.[1]. A smaller but still important example is that white (and asian) people become discriminated against when applying to university and jobs, which has a massive impact on their lives.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers
The fact people like you are so eager to justify racism is sickening.
Comment by Hittorito at 25/07/2020 at 16:47 UTC
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White people are a minority in the world already. You posted this without looking into a single data point.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 22:56 UTC
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This is some awful brainwashed doublethink justification