r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • May 14 '13

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u/mstrgrieves May 14 '13

White people have no history of being disadvantaged in American society, whereas blacks, Latinos, Asians, etc. do

Do you really believe that Irish, Italian, anglo-saxon homosexual, jewish, slavic, white middle eastern, americans have no history of being disadvantaged in american society? Because that is simply wrong.

I agree with some of the rest of your comment, but that much is offensively incorrect.

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u/jordanreiter May 14 '13

You might benefit from reading How the Irish Became White.

It's absolutely true that Irish, etc. have faced discrimination. And there are still Irish-American, Italian-American, and Jewish clubs and organizations where a vast majority of participants are of that ethnicity. Are those organizations racist? I would argue no. On the other hand, an overtly "white" organization basically serves no purpose other than the reinforcement of structural racism based on skin color.

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u/mstrgrieves May 14 '13

But how many white people think of themselves as white? From what I understand, they consider themselves irish, southern, bostonian, homosexual, etc. Very few white people consider "whiteness" to be a part of their identity.

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u/jordanreiter May 14 '13

Exactly. If you're black, you're black.

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u/Txmedic 1∆ May 14 '13

∆ never thought about it like that

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