Montrovant
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- May 4, 2009
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Are you saying racism is only racism when it is backed by law or governmental policy?
No. But what I am saying is that all you who whine about black racism show me where blacks have done the exact same things as whites to deny all opportunities to whites or anyone else. And if so then I wiil agree. If you cannot, then stop claiming that blacks are just as racist or more racist than whites. You can say blacks have prejudices and to that I will not argue, But when it comes to racism I am not just going to agree with a claim made based on false equivalences and amnesia about everything whites have done and keep doing.
Blacks can be just as racist as whites, but they do not have the power to enforce any such racism that whites have enjoyed. That's clear.
No blacks cannot be just as racist as whites. That's the point of talking about laws and policies. For blacks to be just as racist blacks would have to have done and do the same things whites have done and continue doing. Again, do not get prejudice conflated for racism.
I do not define racism as being the laws or policies put in place. Those policies and laws can be racist, certainly, but racism is believing in the superiority or inferiority of a race or races. Anyone can be racist, regardless of whether they have gained advantages from systemic racism in government or society. I think it is you who is conflating systemic racism with all racism. I completely agree that whites have benefited far more than any others from systemic racism; minorities have had little, if any, such advantage. On an individual basis, however, that is immaterial.
So, yes, blacks can be just as racist as whites, who can be just as racist as Native Americans, who can be just as racist as Asians, etc. etc. Any person can be racist, to the same degree any other person can be racist. In the US, whites have, historically, been the ones to benefit from systemic racism. Those are two different things.
If white racism was just calling people names and did not affect us in any other manner, then we can discount laws and policies. However when you enforce your belief in your superiority by making laws or creating policy denying everyone but you because you believe you are superior then you cannot argue racism honestly by saying how you don't base racism on laws and policy. For one to be. but to be just the same as, you have to do the same things. Since the claim of black superiority you think we have has not included the creation of laws and policy denying whites because we believe we are superior and whites are inferior so they do not deserve then blacks are not in fact and in practice as racist as whites.
Racism is not a policy or an action. Racism is a belief. Racism is the belief that a race or races is superior to another race or races.
You seem to define racism as the actions one takes. I do not. If we're operating under different definitions, arguing about it is pointless. How about we just agree to disagree about it and move on? Whether or not one race can be as racist as another isn't an important part of this thread, anyway.