CrossLOPER said:
TheMagicLemur said:
Historically, people of all colors have been dicks to people of all colors.
As for modern military shooters, you are giving WAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more thought to those games than the developers did.
Yes, but not quite on the massive bloody scale that white Europeans (And American descendants of said Europeans) have. Yes, I'm aware that Africans practiced slavery before white people got involved, and that they sold their captured rivals to whites, but let's face it; white people in the past few centuries created institutionalized racism on a scale fairly unprecedented by others.
Well.... in a way you are right. The colonialist racism and the racism practiced by whites tends to have a greater impact than racism practiced by other peoples, but that's due to differences in power, not in hatred. I'm half chinese, and I've been to China and I've spoken to Chinese relatives. I can tell you full well that racism against black people is extremely alive and well in China - it just doesn't get expressed that often because there aren't that many black people in China. China's racism against minorities (anyone who isn't Han) and Tibetans and the Uighers is quite legendary.
It's easy to think that somehow white people are "more racist" than other peoples. They're not. It's just that their racism tends to have more overt consequences. Go to Saudi Arabia, where Sri Lankan labourers are treated as slaves. Go to the Congo where they will cut you up if they think your nose is too narrow or too wide, depending on what group gets you. Go to Japan where descendants of Korean immigrants, despite having lived in Japan all their lives and speak only Japanese, are treated by the government as aliens and are denied rights. Japan, in fact, is legendarily racist. You might not think so due to the fact that they have blonde people in their anime and video games, but you just try to live there and the racism comes out full force.
I'm not saying that white people aren't racist. As someone who is half-chinese and lives in a white majority nation with a chinese mother, I've seen and experienced racism (not so much against me because I look more caucasian than asian, but my brother has gotten a lot of racism directed against him). I know perfectly well of the horrors of the British in India and Africa.
But white people are no "more" racist. In fact, compared to Japan and China (which I've lived in, for a time), I see less racism in Australia and England than I do in China, where if you're not Han or White or Very Rich, you are treated like absolute crap. In England, a black person can become (and has become) an MP or a member of cabinent. In America, we have a black president in a nation where the majority of people are white. In Australia, we a senator and a cabinent member who is half-chinese like me. Can you IMAGINE, even for a second, of a something similar happening in China? Or Japan? Or Korea? Or Laos? Or Vietnam? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Yemen? Or Turkey? How likely is it that, in their present forms, they'd ever accept Black people living in their nations?
Again, that's not to excuse the racism done by whites. Nothing can excuse that. But if you think that other races are even slightly less racist that Caucasian people, buddy, you're wrong. The other races are just as racist as Caucasians. It just has less of an impact than White racism. But the sentiment is no different. They're not less bigoted. It's just that their bigotry isn't backed by the same level of power.
