Indigenous Rising

blairbear301:

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blairbear301:

indigenous-rising:

indigenous-rising:

blairbear301:

For everyone’s information, saying things like “white people doing this” or “white girl” problems, it can be offensive and it is racist. I get offended by seeing this. People who don’t think it’s racist, you need to rethink your life.

it isn’t racist;…

having a bias about someone based on their skin color is prejudice.

Racism = prejudice + power

White people are the oppressive power and therefore do not experience racism.

White people can however, experience prejudice and discrimination.

Just because whites are the “oppressive power” does not mean they don’t experience racism. I get what you’re saying, but it’s all racism to me.

Thank you for responding respectfully. I understand where you are coming from as well, I used to confuse the words prejudice and racism and use them interchangeably until I took several sociology classes that broke it down for me. Prejudice is having opinions about someone based on they race. Racism is putting that/those prejudice(s) into action; for example, institutionalized racism and systematic racism, etc.

Thanks for breaking it down, can you help me a bit more? A few years ago, a young boy committed suicide after he was being bullied for being white by an Asian gang. Wouldn’t that be racism rather than prejudice?

I wish I were more of an expert but, from my minimal knowledge, that sounds like prejudice. I think it would be racism if the people doing the teasing were a true power structure. But children are not power structure. I am not sure if that would also be discrimination? Hopefully someone can help us out with this one?

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