Ok, I've got an Asian-American friend who just goes on and on about race. Being white, I will admit I do not know what it is like to be discriminated against just because of my skin color. However, that does not mean I don't know what it is like to be discriminated against for something out of my control (gender, mental health, etc.)
So she sent me this article:
Why White People Freak out....
and it seems to me to imply that just being born white into a western culture automatically makes a person behave in a racist way, often on accident. It goes on about how many white people get defensive when white privilage is brought up (I get this, I feel it sometimes. After all, it's not any more my fault that I'm white than that the person I'm talking to is not), so yes, I see that this happens. But does that make me racists??
Isn't assuming all "whites" behave racist....racist?
I'm so confused by this topic. It really seems to imply that white people are born racist, and that we cannot escape it. Is that, in itself, not racist?
Fuck color, seriously. I don't care if you are black, asian, catholic, jewish, or think you are a vampire. My entire life theory is based on being non-judgemental....yet I'm basically being accused of being judgemental automatically because of my skin color?
Someone, please explain this to me, so I can stop being the racist asshole I apparently was born to be.
So she sent me this article:
Why White People Freak out....
and it seems to me to imply that just being born white into a western culture automatically makes a person behave in a racist way, often on accident. It goes on about how many white people get defensive when white privilage is brought up (I get this, I feel it sometimes. After all, it's not any more my fault that I'm white than that the person I'm talking to is not), so yes, I see that this happens. But does that make me racists??
Isn't assuming all "whites" behave racist....racist?
I'm so confused by this topic. It really seems to imply that white people are born racist, and that we cannot escape it. Is that, in itself, not racist?
Fuck color, seriously. I don't care if you are black, asian, catholic, jewish, or think you are a vampire. My entire life theory is based on being non-judgemental....yet I'm basically being accused of being judgemental automatically because of my skin color?
Someone, please explain this to me, so I can stop being the racist asshole I apparently was born to be.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
