(February 7, 2020 at 10:11 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(February 7, 2020 at 7:41 pm)Shell B Wrote: What makes you a victim? Nothing that's happened here. Nothing that happened then. You're not the victim in this thread, so there is no case of blaming the victim. You haven't been the victim of racism in this forum. It's easy to borrow the persecutions of our ancestors to justify the anger we feel, but it's always on us.
If by ancestors you mean my parents who lived under Jim Crow laws... Why do you think there is a strong push for reparations this election cycle, it isn't really debatable that racist policies of the past still affect descendants of slavery. Also I should add that the last known former slave died in 1971, so we're not that far removed.
We're far enough removed that you haven't lived under those laws. I don't disagree that some changes need to happen to help redirect things like education, banking, housing, but you are no slave, and you have not met with anything remotely close to racism in this thread, so it's impossible for you to be the victim. Therefore, no one is blaming the victim. People like me were killed during the Holocaust. I don't blame everything I disagree with on Germans. You can't seem to look past the blackness of some topics of discussion here, and you should really work on that.
