• Comrade_Spood@quokk.au
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    8 days ago

    There is also a lot of gaslighting about racism in Europe. “We don’t see color,” type shit

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      8 days ago

      Racism in Europe isn’t based on skin colour, it’s based on older, more weird stereotypes and history. There is no direct “white skin - not white skin” axis that US is known for, so technically we don’t see colours, we see light reflecting properties unachievable for an American

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        7 days ago

        Are you white? And if so, have you ever asked non-white people if they feel they get treated with prejudice or discrimination because of the color of their skin?

        Yall like to say America is so different yet you also forget, America as a nation was founded through colonization BY EUROPEANS. We learned our racism from europeans because we were europeans.

        https://youtu.be/jgjujVEDo7Q

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          3 hours ago

          I am very white, yes, I am from a different group that is discriminated against, and yes, I have enough friends and acquaintances with not a white skin to compare. European racism is more subtle and not as one-dimensional as that meme from that cartoon, you know what I’m talking about. I know it’s hard for an American brain to comprehend this idea (see, this is only one of the ways to demonstrate the European racism).
          Colonisation of America ended hundreds of years ago and has nothing to do with all of that. All the problems both continents have right now developed independently