Originally posted by Robtard
It's a fact though. You seem to be conflating institutional racism and garden variety bigotry; it's what novices (and closeted racist) often do. You're like totally whitebread White, aren't you?edit: I'm not saying you're a closeted racist
I'm a white guy with relatively tan skin for a white person. Yes I'm white, not whitebread pasty AF though.
My stance is that racially discriminatory practices in college admissions, hiring, and political appointments are not morally good things. I think they should be opposed wherever an example is brought up regardless of which race is being transgressed against, which is why I find it disturbing that corporate policies and college admissions are allowed to openly discriminate as long as it's for the sake of "promoting diversity."
It's not something I'm a fan of.
So when you have a Supreme Court decision upholding discrimination against white people in college admissions, and high up people in the left-wing parties in the US and the UK pulling this weird anti-white bullshit, I take issue with that.
And when it is in practice in public institutions such as public universities to have a racially biased admissions process, I definitely take issue with that.
On a fundamental point of principle racial discrimination against anyone is wrong, racial prejudice against any race is wrong, and I'd like to see it gone. I don't take "black people get discriminated against" as an excuse for publically and openly designing corporate policies or worse policies in public institutions designed to discriminate in favor of racial minorities, I don't take historic injustice as a mitigating factor that somehow makes anti-white racism more excusable and tolerable than any other form of racism, and I sure as hell don't think that we should hold the standard as a society of tolerating or not tolerating certain racist acts or statements based on what race it was targeted at.
I think the ideal society is one where we all treat each other as individuals, and I think condemning any racist act or statement on principle regardless which race it's directed at is a good start, and I sure as hell don't think having corporate and public policies designed to discriminate against certain groups is conducive to that goal. It gives off the impression that it's okay to be racist against white people, and it gives more steam to the alt-right when white people see a democratic senator, corporate policy, college admissions (upheld by the supreme court no less) openly be discriminatory towards white people and have people actually defending these things as something white people should just shrug off. If there were some how a way we could bet money on this, I would wager that without the tolerance of anti-white policies and statements that we have in our society, and without the elements of the progressive movement that seem openly hostile towards white people, the alt-right would not be as prominent a group as it is today.
If everyone made an effort to call out racism against any group at a point of principle, held everyone to the same standard, and opposed racial discrimination no matter which way it ran, etc. I think that would more quickly bring society to a place where we stop caring about who has what color skin. I don't think double standards in regards to the standards you hold people of different races, or racism against different races, or racially discriminatory corporate and educational policy towards different races is conducive to that, I think it's something that will only exacerbate racial tensions and lead to a reactionary cycle that only those on the fringes of the alt-right and regressive left will feed upon to grow.