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You're the hopeless one. You're a proponent of everything you claim to despise, I can't believe you don't see that you simply MUST be trolling.
I don't care that you're white- that's my point. You having light skin means NOTHING. But that you have white skin, it's what you look like, it's racist as hell- like top tier racism- to believe that just because you're white, you somehow have some intangible connection to other white people.
Just because you're white yourself, doesn't mean you can't be wrong about whiteness, or be racist about whiteness. It's racist to believe that it does. You have provided no logical backing to what you're claiming. You claim that because you're white, you're more likely to be a certain kind of way. That you should turn a blind eye when other people talk down towards white people as if they have moral authority over them.
But if that logic holds true, then it holds true for EVERYONE regardless of race. So you're saying racism is justified and not a bad thing, that it's okay to judge a black person, a jewish person, an asian person, or any person, because of what they look like.
If a white person is automatically like other white people who've done bad things, that enough white people have done bad things that it sets a precedent for other white people to follow- because they're white- like omg its so fucking racist. Then that sets a precedent that if enough black people are in prison, it means you're justified in thinking every black person is likely a criminal. That if enough Jewish people own entertainment companies and banks, it means that Jewish people as a people are responsible for the actions and corruptions of those companies.
It sets off a dominoe effect of racism that simply ends in a race war because you're so hell bent on putting a persons appearence above everything else. I honestly don't see how you are unaware of the double standard hypocrisy you're endlessly spewing. It would be funny if I wasnt convinced you're actually serious.
History is racist. Society is racist. White people have advantages in the United States that black people don't have. For example, my grandpa was able to cash in his GI Bill while black veterans of his age were told to get fucked. He used that money to go to college, also something black people were not allowed to do, and made a millionaire out of himself. My grandpa is still alive!
Why does it bother people like you so much when 'woke' people like me state these facts. White people are privileged. Why does that bother you?
It's not that white people are like other white people because they're white skinned but because they benefit from having white skin. It's not the skin color but the socio-economic conditions that correlate with whiteness and the aggressive upholding of that status quo.
I don’t think the nuance and/or an understanding of structural racism vs the most puerile discriminatory definition is going to be on the docket here today.
The OP thread reads like either a well intentioned but ignorant adolescent or just…a troll specifically using a bad faith argument. It’s almost impossible to parse the two here.
Either way, “a character made an arguably derogatory comment about western fantasy tropes, and this is the same and equally as all other forms of racism” is a clearly absurd stance for them to be taking. Paired with them denying the historic existence of allegorical elements in fantasy races, there’s no point in trying to make this salient nor relevant.
But it’s their hill to die on I guess. Hopefully it’ll at least be quieter soon.