• Tja@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    Europeans who are racist (especially from the east, or countries which didn’t have colonies) are racist in the sense of staring at black people and trying to touch their hair.

    Americans who are racist are racist in the sense they want to disenfranchise black votes, gerrymandered the hell of their districts and maybe enslave them in a federal prison for a minor drug offense. Because lynching is frowned upon these days.

    Both exist, but they are not the same.

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      Europeans will also be like British people treating Polish people like shit, or various flavours of white people from adjacent communities deciding the other white person needs to be struck from the earth.

      Europeans can absolutely be violently racist. I mean, who do you think sold all those slaves to the US?

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        7 hours ago

        yeah exactly, we don’t need someone to have a different skin colour to be racist, that’s a simple man’s racism. us europeans only do the finest of racisms - normal people with normal white skin (my village) vs the weird people with a similar skin but their accents are kinda weird and scary (all the other villages, and especially that one village over there)

        (huge /j in case that wasn’t obvious)