• Tja@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Europeans who are racist (especially from the east, or countries which didn’t have colonies) are racist in the sense of staring at black people and trying to touch their hair.

    Americans who are racist are racist in the sense they want to disenfranchise black votes, gerrymandered the hell of their districts and maybe enslave them in a federal prison for a minor drug offense. Because lynching is frowned upon these days.

    Both exist, but they are not the same.

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      4 days ago

      You’re very blatantly underestimating the extent of European racism just because it shows itself less towards black people specifically.

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        3 days ago

        It shows itself versus everyone specifically. There is no group of people persecuted based on their race by politicians, law enforcement, media and half the population like back people are in the US. Or brown Muslims in the US. Or transgender people in the US. Maybe in Poland, this last one, but i don’t think so.

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      Europeans will also be like British people treating Polish people like shit, or various flavours of white people from adjacent communities deciding the other white person needs to be struck from the earth.

      Europeans can absolutely be violently racist. I mean, who do you think sold all those slaves to the US?

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        yeah exactly, we don’t need someone to have a different skin colour to be racist, that’s a simple man’s racism. us europeans only do the finest of racisms - normal people with normal white skin (my village) vs the weird people with a similar skin but their accents are kinda weird and scary (all the other villages, and especially that one village over there)

        (huge /j in case that wasn’t obvious)

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          4 days ago

          Define “race” and then tell me that an anglo person is the same as an eastern European person.

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            3 days ago

            Do you not understand the difference between a race and ethnicity or nationality?

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              3 days ago

              The first sentence of wikipedia: “Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.”

              Also you not understanding that there are physical differences, if more subtle, between Eastern Europeans and those descended from Celts and the like is a you problem.

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                3 days ago

                Why did you quote Wikipedia for a word definition? I don’t care what some randoms write in Wikipedia, we have established definitions agreed upon by experts and governments. Please refer to a better source like Oxford dictionary and learn the actual meaning of racism

                Also, I’m from East, a Slav, who constantly travels to Scandinavia (Nordic countries)

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              3 days ago

              I said Polish because they are the group of easter Europeans that are most readily gone after in Britain. British is also not a race, by the way.

              Ya stupid.