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Originally Posted by molson
The theme of that bingo chart is, "this is wacky shit white people come up with to cover up their racism and happiness over Martin's death and Zimmerman's acquittal". "When white people talk about white people stuff like the law, they're really being racist, and we see right through them."
I think the chart and the comments along the same lines is more like trolling than sincere racism though. The goal is to get white people to feel generalized and riled up, so they can experience just a small taste of the reality of suppressed minorities. "See how you like it". And I get it - it's not fun to be generalized as a racist, but it's at least 1,000 times worse, and much more dangerous, to be generalized by a racial profiling cop, or by a paranoid armed neighborhood watchmen. It's still racist though, and it's still trolling, and IMO, it really has no place in a discussion like this where people are talking about this civilly. Why troll us?
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The problem is not whether the chart is racist or not. the problem is that in American when discussions of racism comes around somehow we spend up spending a surprising amount of time discussing racism towards whites, as if that is a significant problem in our culture today. You can argue 'til you're blue in the face that any kind of racism is wrong, and of course you are right. But in general the time that America spends talking about racism against whites is time not spent talking about much, much more serious and significant racism against others that is ingrained into our culture and psychology. The attention should be proportional to the amount and significance of the event. But any time you talk about an issue like racism or sexism, it's normal for the dominant group to somehow subvert the discussion to be about them. That's part of the problem.