@Woodcutter
“What constitutes a racist remark these days? And who gets to define them, just minorities?”
The fact that you stated that quote suggests heavily that you’ve been in the clear and probably haven’t lived any portion of feeling prejudiced against. Of course this is just my “assumption.”
Think of it this way. Racism was practiced by whites in America. It was social standard. A black guy calling a white man a cracka today doesn’t hold the same weight as whites calling a black man nigger back then. The assumption back then was, I own you, I’m above you. Nowawadays I hear small groups of mixed races clown on each other with jokes of the past.
But the weight of how people are delivering statements on YouTube are quite heavy compared to a joke amongst each other.
I’m not going to discredit the fact that whites can feel like others are racist against them. (But when does this happen? When you drive through Compton? The Red Light district in D.C.? Strolling through Brooklyn, NY, Atlanta, Georgia? When do you feel like people are being racist against you? It hasn’t happened in a way where you feel all of society is against you. It hasn’t happened on a level where you feel like you can’t be part of society or the bigger picture of society. It hasn’t happened against you on the same level as Chinese-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Filipino-Americans, Indian-Americans, Native Americans!
It has never happened on that scale.
And by you trying to identify minorities as having the only right to complain, you are again trying to put them in a place. You are putting minorities in a box of complainers list. It’s not right.
Get the picture? There are only so many pockets of “minority pockets” in the USA. The point is white male is the still majority. Times are changing and it’s slowly getting better. But goddamn these under the surface stereotype racists who thrive on YouTube giving racism a resurgence is ridiculous.