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Originally Posted by Premonitions
It's just occurred to me that you've not addressed my original post at all, and just expressed your anger on the subject. And I just played into your hands. Silly me, finding some nice links though.
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You specifically said "white people rule the world."
So what you're basically saying is that there's some global network that all white people have access to, where ostensibly they discuss ways of staying on top and keeping those filthy minorities down?
That's as preposterous as assuming all black people are friends.
Rich people rule the world. Poor white people are just as fucked as anyone.
Maybe I'm just thinking too literally here though, as racism to me is discrimination based on genetics. To be precise, your genetic makeup and physical traits are the things you are being judged on and complex social behaviors or dispositions are being attributed to your physical makeup.
What we have today (barring a few extreme examples) is not actually racism. It's is classism and cultural discrimination. A middle class family with a mortgage and 2 kids living in the suburbs that happens to be black isn't going to face any substantial racial backlash unless they live in some weird ass fucked up racist community. A grown man wearing a t-shirt 3 sizes too big that walks into a boutique shop is probably going to suffer a great deal of discrimination however, regardless of his race (unless of course he's covered in diamonds and platinum, in which case I suppose he's precisely the sort of clientele such stores would be looking for.)