Assholes in the news

[Irreligious Atheist]

Whites are probably the most non-racist people per capita, or right up there, so no, I don't want people to be told to be less white. Do random white Coca-Cola employees really need to be told not to oppress their black co-workers? I can understand the people in positions of power being told to be fair to everyone regardless of race or orientation, but regular employees? How are they oppressing their co-workers? By speaking over them? That happens in almost all conversations. You've got to learn to be more assertive if you want to make your point and you're worried about being shut out because you're being spoken over.

About the "whites are the most non-racist people per capita" thing:

And, bear in mind, even if that is true, the fact that power is still heavily weighted towards white people, that could still mean that could make that little bigotry have more societal impact.

About whether Coke's employees need to be told to be less racist to minority employees, You'd be surprised.

And if you're telling black people to be more assertive so white people don't speak over them, well, there's entire stereotypes of black people that white people can use to put them in a box like "Oh, it's a black woman getting pissed off. There's no reason to take her seriously because she's ALWAYS pissed off. Why should I take her seriously this time?" Bear in mind, it took years for Black Lives Matter to actually gain mainstream acceptance among white people even though it's simply black people protesting their right to be treated like human beings.

I don't have a survey about who is less or more racist. I said probably and I base that on what I've seen over the years. India, China, and some other Asian countries are racist as hell. Asians who come to the West often hold a negative view of blacks, especially the older Asians. When I go to the comment section on youtube of black radio stations or a show like Roland Martin's show, the majority of the comments are usually crapping on white people. You don't see that nearly as much with whites. Sure, some comment sections can have some pretty bad racism coming from whites, but that seems far less prevalent to me, per capita. White majority countries are the most liberal countries. They take in immigrants more than anyone else does. Whites are the only group with a huge portion of the group having a negative perception of their own race. Most BLM protesters are probably white.

The angry black woman is a real thing. Look at those blue haired weirdos who hijacked Bernie's rally after he was nice enough to promise to let them speak. You can stand up for yourself at work without doing it in an angry manner. These types of people need to learn to act more professional.

The reason a lot of people weren't down for the BLM stuff is because much of the rhetoric was based on lies. Hands up don't shoot was a lie. The Mike Brown killing was justified. Mike Brown is about as good of a martyr to get behind as OJ Simpson. Of course many people were going to be skeptical of the movement after they pushed a whole lot of lies on us.