Before I was exposed to social justice ideologies I never even saw color. Prior to being introduced to those ideologies I never noticed what people’s races were, it was never important to me and it still isn’t. Now, every time I watch a video, whether I agree or disagree with the content, I see the person’s skin tone. If it’s a white person arguing against social justice, I already know that they’ll be ridiculed based on their skin color. If it’s a black person speaking about social justice, I already know they’ll be congratulated. It made me see in color, now one of the first things I notice about someone is what the color of their skin is, now I’m afraid of being perceived as racist because my skin is light or because I said something a “"person of color”“ deemed bad. Prior to opposing social justice, I’ve never been called racist in my life, but as soon as I started openly disagreeing with the mainstream opinions of ”“people of color”“, I started being called racist left and right. Everyone is seeing in color now, not just me. It’s toxic.
What you described is literally the definition of white privilege. Just because you never thought about race doesn’t mean that race issues didn’t exist until the sjw community became a big thing. Just because you never had to personally think about race doesn’t mean it wasn’t a factor that affected millions of people, it just means that it didn’t affect you.
Unfortunately, even good people who are not racist and were not raised to be racist need to be aware of the racism going on around them in order for us to ever have any hope of it stopping. To ignore and to refuse to acknowledge racism in both America’s past and it’s present is to be complicit in upholding the culture of white privilege and white supremacy. You were raised in ignorance of race issues, which would be the ideal state of being if systematic, cultural, and institutionalized racism weren’t a thing, but they are, and we all need to be aware of that to try and stop it in future generations.
All of that sjw sociology philosophy bullshit said, here’s some real talk:
I’m white, and I was raised by white supremacist racists. If you asked my parents if they were racist, they would tell you that they were “realists”. I was raised to think black people were inherently brutish in physique, less intelligent than whites, and more prone to violent tendencies. Mexicans were lazy and didn’t value education, and couldn’t control their sexual impulses which is why they had so many kids. Asians were never spoke of poorly, but instead were something for my mom to patronize constantly to the point that she’s pissed off some waitresses at restaurants before. Whites were the best race though, my dad said that we were the most evolved of all the races which is why we are not as physically capable as Blacks or Mexicans, because we got what we needed through intellectual superiority and “civilized” manners.
Unlike you, I was raised very much to see color, and can serve as living proof of modern day racism in a vacuum outside of sjw ideologies. Despite what a lot of antisjw people would say, sjw ideology is not a self fulfilling prophecy but in fact was born from real world issues that needed to be addressed. My family is not the only family to teach these horrible beliefs, and looking past systematic and institutionalized racism, just plain white supremacy is way more common than you probably think.
Me saying that I think there’s a problem in society with the way
people see race is ‘white privilege’? Girl.I live in the Middle East.
Racism is a very big problem here, whether it be towards Arabs or towards
blacks. I never said that I don’t think race issues are real or that I
was in any way blind to them, it’s actually quite the opposite. I was aware of
these issues, I was just never racist myself, I never cared about anyone’s skin
color (and I still don’t) and I never thought it held any significance. My
parents aren’t racist either – my dad is white and my mom is mixed race (half
white and half Arab). My grandma’s parents (on my mom’s side, obviously) suffered
from a lot of bigotry and racism, and my grandparents, being a mixed race
family, did as well. My family is full of people who dealt with racism. I was
never blind to it, what I was blind to was color. Everyone was equal to me. But
these days, we’re far from equality. People’s opinions get dismissed because
they’re white, and all you need to do to be taken seriously in any political conversation
is be a “person of color”. That’s what I was talking about in this
post, you missed the point completely by spewing this “white
privilege” bullshit.I said “my skin is light”, not that I’m white. I’m
mixed race but light skinned… Not that that should hold any relevance. You
basically just proved my point.I’m autistic and I grew up rather outside of society, and we dealt with racial issues still, but I was told to never judge someone just because of how they were born, but by the content of their character. That I should also give people the benefit of the doubt, to try to see their point of view of things before judging, because we never know what someone had gone through in their life, and I learned to not take insults personally (that’s a hard one) because that’s on them, that’s their hate.
But now, everything that I grew up to believe as good and true is being threatened by people judging others for the color of their skin. Why do people think it’s ok, just because someone has lighter skin, that it’s ok to judge them for being born? That it’s ok to make justifications for hating someone they don’t even know because of their race? It is never ok. It should never be justified. There is hatred in every race, we are all humans, we are all capable of being nasty pieces of crap, and that should never be justified.
I can never judge a person by the color of their skin. I treat everyone equally, and I will continue to do so. I don’t care what race someone is, there is no race above another. I don’t care what gender someone is. I don’t even care how much money they have, they are all human and equally deserving of the same level of respect as everyone else. Hate comes from all sides and should be equally condemned.
Hate comes from all sides and should be equally condemned.
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