bhaugen
The dynamics when a member of an oppressed group complains in general about their relative oppressor group are very different than when a member of an oppressor group complains in general about an oppressed group.
E.g. ain't no such thing as reverse racism. The dynamics and meaning are totally different.
This often makes CIS white males (like me) very uncomfortable.
We inherit a lot of evil. Need to end the evil, not feel guilty about it, though.
Strypey
@bhaugen people spend so much time talking past each other in the "racism" conversation. We really need two clearly defined terms here. One for structural racism, such as the way the policing system in colonized countries discriminates at every level in favour of the members of the colonizing ethnicity, and one for race-based bigotry and violence, which can and does flow both ways.
Strypey
@bhaugen widespread post-apartheid violence against white South Africans by non-whites, while understandable to some degree given the history of apartheid, is definitely race-based bigotry. Arguing about whether or not it's fair to call it "racism" or "reverse racism" is semantic quibbling, that trivializes and minimizes the experiences of people subject to horrendous episodes of unprovoked violence.
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