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  1. On 6/5/2023 at 11:07 PM, rawTOP said:

    I'm back (kinda). I had a stroke 3 1/2 weeks ago. Sadly, a quick recovery isn't really an option, but I will recover - slowly. I'm trying to learn to use a one-handed keyboard in the meantime, but everything is SLOW...

    I'll try to at least look into chat this week. But rehab/recovery comes first.

    Stay healthy, raw, thats more important, hope you get better!

  2. On 11/26/2020 at 4:52 PM, hungandmean said:

    Listen. Everyone is prejudiced in some way - and most people are assholes.

    But that isn't racism. There is no reverse racism. *ONLY* white people can be racist. Racism is about power. It's how the system is rigged in our favor, always. It's about our ability to use the systems in place to our advantage.

    I could bawl my eyes out, and point a finger at a Black man, and claim he gay bashed or assaulted me. The police would believe it. The courts would. The media would. The man would have to spend more time and effort than anyone else to prove his innocence than another white person would. It's how the system works. It's how the system was intended to work.

    It's insidious. Most people don't notice it. There are recent studies that show that if you're Black and remove family photos, etc, from your house when you try and sell it you'll get atleast 20% more valuation for what your property is worth if real estate agents and banks don't know you're Black.

    White people own racism. We invited it. It works for us. Sometimes it works for people of color, too. You can piggyback off of it as long as you do so on our terms. White gays love to attach themselves to supremacy. A white gay man is often white first, and gay second. You can see this kind of behavior in one of the few gay billionaires who springs to mind (Peter Thiel) who was remorseless in donating to anti gay politicians and causes because they furthered his financial interests and those people posed no risk to his own personal safety. 

    White peoples ability to feel threatened, and wield the police and courts as a weapon is the strongest example of what the difference between prejudice, preference, and racism is. 

     

     

    Sorry man, I disagree that racism is the white man's invention. I'm not saying the relationship between whites and everyone else isn't culturally entrenched or a wicked problem, but In Asia, we might all look alike to westerners but we have some really xenophobic cultures and history  - the Japanese have serious issues with foreigners, especially latinos for some reason, because, to your point about power, they were an insular, imperialist, supremacist society for centuries and long before they knew white people existed - during world war 2, they considered the Chinese to be less than insects and had anti-Semitic leanings (even though they had to go abroad to even see a Jew). Some of the stuff they did almost made the nazis look merciful, and there are still many Chinese who loath Japan. Its a three-way tie between asians, greeks and whites in Australia as to who distrusts each other more, Thailand has a whole cultural and societal bias against dark skin despite never being colonised, Cambodia had a regime where they legally persecuted everyone else, and everybody resents the Indians and Pakistanis for the same superficial reasons white people do, hence why they can barely get jobs getting taxis. Here in hong kong, we are increasingly hostile toward the people in Mainland China - literally the same country, just 5 miles away, who themselves are busy putting muslims in camps. As for the muslims, there are hundreds of different ethnic types that i can't tell apart and they all hate each other. This is what I meant about being human - we see each other's origin as a defining feature of difference and its unavoidable that it bleeds into sexual preference.

    White racism is different (i think) mostly because it seems to have a more established history of being justified and codified by religious dogma, which the first sciences, laws and moral institutions were guided by (blood purity, eugenics, segregation) - the same reason muslim sexism is in its own league compared to sexism elsewhere - its in the book that defines the universe, and if you point at that, its not wrong. The fact that it led them to control so much of the world would give any demographic a long-standing historical ego complex. But the powerful always persecute the powerless, and the powerless arn't automatically more tolerant or defined by their demographics, its the same all over the world, and its resulted in a lot of misery and oppression in places white people have never held power.  If racism is expecting the worst of somebody because of how they look, or what country they came from, then white people absolutely don't own the patent - they just do a better job of telling people how badly they hide it.

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  3. I think if the U.S election teaches people anything, it's that white people do not own racism. Every race, and every person within each race has their own racial bias - and that's FINE. 

    We were evolved to recognise differences between us as threats and we grow up with different experiences with people of different races. I spent 8 hours with a guy who spent it telling me conspiracy theories about the Chinese (I'm mixed race) and telling me what scum they were. I've often been rejected by people because of my ethnicity and have even had people defend me over it even when I said it was natural, and I've passed on guys cause of their race sometimes. It's amplified with us gays because we are a niche, but shallow, ageist, sex obsessed culture, but it's natural to have prejudices or preferences, so we distinguish between whatever makes us unique or stand out. It's what makes people people. 

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