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It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
What kind of white supremacist country would have let a black man named Barack Obama anywhere near presidency?
The fact that the US is failing at repressing black people doesn’t mean the US isn’t inherently white supremacist - just like the fact that the US was defeated in Vietnam and Afghanistan doesn’t mean the US isn’t fundamentally a colonialist empire. In both cases, the answer is in the affirmative - the US is fundamentally white supremacist and it is fundamentally colonialist. The fact that it has failed at both on many occasions doesn’t negate the truth of that. Apartheid-South Africa was similarly fundamentally white supremacist - the fact that it failed to repress it’s black population doesn’t suddenly mean that Apartheid-South Africa wasn’t fundamentally white supremacist.
You seem to believe that the fact that the long struggle black (and other people) have had to wage in the US simply to be seen as human (somehow) “proves” that the US isn’t fundamentally white supremacist while completely ignoring the blatantly obvious reason why such struggles was necessary in the first damn place and are still ongoing.
The US is still a white supremacists nation where white lives are placed above non-black lives, you can bury your head in the sand but systemic racism is very much real.
You can pretend you care about class, but if you’re analysis of the material conditions ignore the fundamental structure of the US, you’re not helping anyone.
Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.
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Our entire society is plain wrong, doing things to address those injustices is good actually.
P.s you can’t be “racist” against white people, in a white supremacists nation.
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It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
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Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
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The fact that the US is failing at repressing black people doesn’t mean the US isn’t inherently white supremacist - just like the fact that the US was defeated in Vietnam and Afghanistan doesn’t mean the US isn’t fundamentally a colonialist empire. In both cases, the answer is in the affirmative - the US is fundamentally white supremacist and it is fundamentally colonialist. The fact that it has failed at both on many occasions doesn’t negate the truth of that. Apartheid-South Africa was similarly fundamentally white supremacist - the fact that it failed to repress it’s black population doesn’t suddenly mean that Apartheid-South Africa wasn’t fundamentally white supremacist.
You seem to believe that the fact that the long struggle black (and other people) have had to wage in the US simply to be seen as human (somehow) “proves” that the US isn’t fundamentally white supremacist while completely ignoring the blatantly obvious reason why such struggles was necessary in the first damn place and are still ongoing.
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LMAO “we solved racism cuz Obama”
The US is still a white supremacists nation where white lives are placed above non-black lives, you can bury your head in the sand but systemic racism is very much real.
You can pretend you care about class, but if you’re analysis of the material conditions ignore the fundamental structure of the US, you’re not helping anyone.
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You can in Hawaii.
If Hawaii wasn’t part of America and thus the rights of rich white people override the rights of locals, that might be true.
But Hawaii IS part of the US so it’s not.
Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.