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Can people nowadays state an opinion without being racist?
Other than that the story is horrible. It won't fix the problem for many (most?) of them, but I hope they get as much money as they can by suing the government.
Pretty ironic though. That comment was in the context of talking about how easy it is for people to dismiss the abuse these Indigenous women went through.
Cue, an entire comment section that is mostly focussed on discussing whether white people feel attacked, than the decades of hell these women endured.
Which goes to show how you undermine your own important message if you lace it with your own racist language.
That's one way to admit that some white people will put their delicate sensibilities over and above actual genocide.
Reverse racism is bullshit because "white" as a category is only exclusionary. It does not exist to acknowledge any culture or nationality. I am white but would lose nothing from my identity if the concept were abolished tomorrow.
It is a political category that exists purely to discriminate against those who fall outside of it. In that sense, this eugenics program was indeed "a very white way of thinking".
You don't have to identify with that if you're white. You can reject the concept of race as being valid - it is unscientific and entirely socially constructed - whilst still recognising that racial categories and racism have real consqeuences and do real harm.
EDIT: I'm not interested in continuing to debate with people who have no interest in understanding. For anyone who actually cares to educate themselves, here is some information.
Dictionary definitions of racism aren't enough, you need to actually study the subject. This is a decent article on the subject, which paraphrases my favourite saying on the matter, "noticing racism is not the real racism": https://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/news-events/news/what-is-reverse-racism-and-whats-wrong-with-the-term
And they reference this paper, which gives an academic definition of racism: Racism equals power plus prejudice: A social psychological equation for racial oppression.
Racism requires a power imbalance on a societal level. Without that, you can have prejudicial attitudes, but they don't rise to the level of racism. As a white person, you can say whatever you want about white people to me and it doesn't threaten me much, because white people are not oppressed in our society.
As a mixed-race individual, it's not about whether race is a valid identifier in any objective sense or not. Our society still puts a great deal of emphasis on race regardless.
I wouldn't consider my identity particularly 'white', but when that's used to denigrate me, like I'm only part-valid? That feels like shit. Something between rage and absolute isolation.
Your point fails to recognize that the US isn't the only country in the world. 'black' as a concept makes no sense on the global scale either and the internet does exist in other countries too.
European empires colonised the world centuries ago and invented the concept of race to justify why they were treating everyone else as sub-human. Britain exported that ideology to the US, and both of their empires, amongst many others, exported the concept globally. No continent on Earth was spared. I live in Australia and the Indigenous people here talk about "black fellas" and "white fellas" to describe their particular experience of racist oppression.
To claim "black" as a racist concept only exists in the US just proves that you don't know very much about the topic.
That's a nice point actually
I would be considered white now in the US, but 120 years ago, I wouldn't have been.
And personally, I don't identify one way or the other, because it's not an aspect I measure people by.
There's nothing reverse about it, it's plain racism.
This is the definition:
Except the minority everything checks out. Note the word "typically" when referring to minority.
Unless you want to change the definition of racism (which many of you fellas seem to want to), racism against white people is just racism, nothing "reverse" about it.