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Hello
I live in Norway, I'm white, I rarely even see black people IRL.
Racism in the USA is a topic that I've come across multiple times through online interactions and pop culture. My general take on it has always been that while I believe that racism is definitely present, and that considering white people on average hold more positions of power, have more money, higher social status and so on, its more likely that the white racists that do exist have the power to exert their racism upon black men, while black racists towards white people cannot do the same.
I believe that while black people likely feel as if they live in a very racist country, they don't actually. While racism against black people clearly exists, its not a major problem in the US. But its understandable why they think so.
Imagine a black guy is victim to racism once EVERY week. Lets say he "meets" 100 people on average per day (meets including passing on the street, interacting with in any way and so on). Thats 700 people a week. Lets do some simple math:
1/700 = 0.00142857142% of the people he met were acting racist. Now of course not everyone he meets will be white - but approximately 72% of the US are white. So the statistic is still LAUGHABLY low. And thats someone who meets someone openly racist EVERY WEEK (i.e extremely unlikely). Imagine how low the percentage of open racists are.
This brings me to the next point - what is the movement actually trying to achieve? Its not like the actual racists in the US are openly racist and proud of it, laughing from their ivory tower. If people, black or white, actually believe the general US population is racists that wants other racists in positions of power, then the riots would see no support. But its, predictably getting a ton of support because people aren't actually racist.
The SOME-post trends going around are so laughable - its virtue signaling, people putting their hands in the air and yelling "I'm not a racist!" in a society where almost nobody are racists.
In the end, this is a US police culture problem, not a race issue. The US police are laughably undertrained, poorly managed and with the blacks representation in crime rates, its a recipe for disaster.
I live in Norway, I'm white, I rarely even see black people IRL.
Racism in the USA is a topic that I've come across multiple times through online interactions and pop culture. My general take on it has always been that while I believe that racism is definitely present, and that considering white people on average hold more positions of power, have more money, higher social status and so on, its more likely that the white racists that do exist have the power to exert their racism upon black men, while black racists towards white people cannot do the same.
I believe that while black people likely feel as if they live in a very racist country, they don't actually. While racism against black people clearly exists, its not a major problem in the US. But its understandable why they think so.
Imagine a black guy is victim to racism once EVERY week. Lets say he "meets" 100 people on average per day (meets including passing on the street, interacting with in any way and so on). Thats 700 people a week. Lets do some simple math:
1/700 = 0.00142857142% of the people he met were acting racist. Now of course not everyone he meets will be white - but approximately 72% of the US are white. So the statistic is still LAUGHABLY low. And thats someone who meets someone openly racist EVERY WEEK (i.e extremely unlikely). Imagine how low the percentage of open racists are.
This brings me to the next point - what is the movement actually trying to achieve? Its not like the actual racists in the US are openly racist and proud of it, laughing from their ivory tower. If people, black or white, actually believe the general US population is racists that wants other racists in positions of power, then the riots would see no support. But its, predictably getting a ton of support because people aren't actually racist.
The SOME-post trends going around are so laughable - its virtue signaling, people putting their hands in the air and yelling "I'm not a racist!" in a society where almost nobody are racists.
In the end, this is a US police culture problem, not a race issue. The US police are laughably undertrained, poorly managed and with the blacks representation in crime rates, its a recipe for disaster.
