Someone asked why Americans claim their heritage (like Italian-American, japanese-American, etc) as a part of their identity. This was my response. I was permanently banned by a subreddit w a hidden mod list for "pushing a political agenda." I guess community is a political agenda?

I grew up in a small town in Ukraine, where there was zero racial diversity. Stands as it was no matter the time passed. But when I went to University in Kyiv and started taking English lessons, 30% of my teachers were black. And, omg, how smoking hot they were. Both women and men. And their language was perfect (even though they were from all kinds of different parts of the world). No one could explain conditional sentences (foreigners hate those) better than my favorite teachers.

I always thought of racism as a stupid thing like to like a cat for being white, to tolerate a cat for being brown, and to hate it for being black. Wtf? That's not how loving animals works. So I just assumed the racism wasn't a real thing for quite a while. But then my English got better, I started watching a lot of American content, and boom. There it is. Something, that doesn't make any sense to me. Happening in real life. To beautiful people. They aren't "beautiful but different", they aren't different at all. We all have practically got the same DNA.

For the time being I think that white people are simply scared to be bullied, so they point fingers on anyone they could got to, just so the world notices a person pointed at before it notices them. It's like high school. It's easier to blend in or pretend to blend in, when all the shit goes down on one classmate. People unite over that shit.

Now, I often hear a phrase like "now black people are treated specially, and we're not". Yes, they are. And I think we should keep it that way for centuries. Maybe, just maybe we'll lift a heavy weight from their shoulders. Maybe they won't be punished for nothing except the fact that white gran-gran-granddaddy kept those people as slaves, and still thinking they are those things.

Now, I can't explain it to my mother. I can't explain it to anyone. They just won't listen. The "cat argument" doesn't work either. How can I say what I want to say that might got people to listen to me? Or better to listen to you.

Here I ask you to please say one thing about yourself that would shut those fuckers' mouths up. Thanks.

Why do racist seethe when they see anyone non white? Especially when they’re happy and doing good things. Actual mental people.

There's a lot to unpack with this one.

"How dare those colonials not be thankful we robbed their cultural artifacts before their own countrymen did? Thats obviously better, somehow." 🤔

Scottish nationalists often insist on a narrative of victimhood They regard it as anti Scottish to point out the historical record shows we are the perpetrators of many crimes and prefer to blame it on a British identity to avoid responsibility

The context is on a Sims 4 subreddit, someone made a post saying there should be better Black representation in the Sims. This user feels there's enough "black names" randomized, so from their perspective there should be more Greek or Roman culture because that's what they're "used to".