Do you believe racism against white people is a thing?
The two main arguments to this that I've heard are that prejudice against someone based on skin color and actual *racism* are two very different things. But then the other argument I've heard is that the definition of racism *is* prejudice against someone based on skin color. So based on the former argument, racism against white people does not happen. In the latter argument, it does.
What do you think? Do you feel like white people claiming that racism happens to them too is legitimate, or that it's a total joke? Do you have any additional points to make on the issue?
I'm personally somewhat undecided about it. I feel like racism against white people *can* happen, but that in most of the cases what most white people complain about and claim to be racism, it's really not. Like, when I'm in my school, which is a very PoC dominated school, and I get called "that white hoe" or "snowflake" I don't feel like this is actually racism. It might be a little rude, and possibly offensive based on your mindset, but I don't think it's racism in the same way that it's racism for a cop to pull over and search a black person's person and car for no legitimate reason.
So anyway, yeah. What do you think? Do white people not truly have a full understanding of what racism *really* is? Do we just go by the dictionary definition of it and think we know all about what it is and what it feels like simply because we've occasionally experienced some unkindness from a person of color?
BQ: What about sexism against men?
Thank you for your answers! :)
I'm sorry, I Beez a Egyptian, but that's a *bit* of an exaggeration to say white people are more discriminated than anyone else. The amount of things I get away with every single day simply because I'm white is astounding, and I would be lying to say that I don't take advantage of it. I might not be up to any good, but nobody suspects that I'm up to no good because I look like the innocent white girl. If I were black, even if I *was* doing something completely innocent, I'd get stopped and questioned and even harassed.
And I just have to ask, what rights do white people *not* have that you seem to think every other race does?