Sexism and racism is inherently linked to power, in such a way that women can't (really) be sexist towards men, and black people can't (really) be racist towards white people.
Yes there are exceptions, I don't want someone to bring up some 3,000 year old civilization that was dominated by black people where they had more privilege.
Racism and sexism are inherently a privilege issue, you can bring up all the cases you want of hate crimes against men from extremists or hate crimes against white people from black people - but it's not racism.
It's discrimination.
If you want to make a case against this then you can prove that women have more privilege than men, or that black people have more privilege than white people.
Maybe it's sad to say that this is primarily the american scope that I'm speaking of, I'm an american so I'm more in tune with american politics and the racial scope in this area.
I'm not scoffing at anyone and I'm not pretending to know what strifes persons other than myself face.
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I've been reading finance articles all evening and have even more read tonight so I'm not going to read through those in their entirety right now.
I did skim and having read through a lot of other articles and statistics published by the FBI a few things stick out to me.
1) They're using reported hate crimes/violence as their statistic which is historically vastly unreported so these numbers are most likely at least a bit lower than presented.
2) "According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), current data suggests that 20-25% of lesbian and gay people experience hate crimes within their lifetimes."
This went unfounded and I actually wanted to see a statistic on this.
3) Not to take away from hate crimes being a real issue, but they're still just a fraction of the overall crimes being committed today and I doubt that hate crimes significantly jumped over night due to the election.
My minority friends are a lot more conscious of the fact that they are more likely to have hate crimes committed against them, and are already afraid. The election results made them even more on edge because it legitimized a man who is openly racist and hateful.
You seem to be oblivious to the reality of life as a maligned political minority in the U.S. I am too, but at least I don't try to scoff at people who are actually part of that minority and spout garbage like "You should fear for the future of the country but not for your own well-being."
The whole point is that these people already are afraid.
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I think you're misconstruing my arguments and stance as being pro-Trump or as believing that racism isn't alive and real in the United States–I think that institutional racism on a national level is real and should be actively fought against. I just also think that a lot of these arguments display a complete lack of empathy towards the people who aren't maliciously racist or are just cogs in a system that favors them.
"I don't consider that a commentary on fear for one's life. If that had been on his mind then I'd think he would have used a word like "murdered." But w/e."
Being physically assaulted compared as opposed murdered is lesser but if you weren't afraid yesterday it seems irrational to think that the election would cause such a drastic swing in the people in one's local area.
I don't consider that a commentary on fear for one's life. If that had been on his mind then I'd think he would have used a word like "murdered." But w/e.
It certainly allows me to claim that white people in general are racist. But I don't really need this empirical data since I already have much more fundamental empirical data from the implicit-association test.
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"a lot of my friends who were minorities were sincerely afraid that they would be jumped/assaulted the day after trump won. that is what i mean."
He did.
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The criminal justice system having racial issues doesn't qualify you to claim that white persons who voted for Trump are racist.
