Reverse racism is racism against White people. Many Whites say it is more common than un-reverse racism.
Australian comedian Aamer Rahman gives by far the best answer to this Broken Record argument:
A lot of people don’t like my comedy, a lot of White people don’t like my comedy, a lot of White people say this to me:
“Hey Aamer, hey. Get on stage, you make your jokes about White people, you say “White people this, White people that.” What if I did something like that, huh? What if I got on stage and said yeah, “Black people are like this, Muslims are like that.” You’d probably call me a racist, wouldn’t you?“
And I say, “Yeah, yeah I would. Yeah, you should never do that. That’s bad for your health.”
They’re like, “Well you do that Aamer! You do that. You get on stage, you make your jokes about White people. Don’t you think that’s a kind of a racism? Don’t you think that’s – dun dun duuun! – reverse racism?
I said, “No, I don’t think that’s reverse racism,” not because I think reverse racism doesn’t exist. If you ask some Black American people they’ll tell you flat out “There’s no such thing as reverse racism.” I don’t agree with that. I think there is such a thing as reverse racism, and I can be a reverse racist if I wanted to. All I would need would be a time machine, right? And what I’d do is I would get in my time machine and I’d go back in time to before Europe colonized the world, right? And I’d convince the leaders of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America to invade and colonize Europe, right?
Just occupy them, steal their land and resources. Set up some kind of like, I don’t know, Trans-Asian slave trave, where we exported White people to work on giant rice plantations in China. Just ruin Europe over the course of a couple centuries, so all their descendants would want to migrate out and live in the places where Black and Brown people come from.
Of course in that time, I’d make sure I set up systems that privilege Black and Brown people at every conceivable social, political and economic opportunity. And White people will never have any hope of real self-determination. Every couple of decades make up some fake war as an excuse to go bomb them back to the Stone Age and say it’s for their own good because their culture’s inferior. And just for kicks, subject White people to coloured people’s standards of beauty, so they end up hating the colour of their own skin, eyes and hair.
If after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of that, I got on stage at a comedy show and said, “Hey, what’s the deal with White people? Why can’t they dance?” That would be reverse racism.
See also:
- YouTube: Aamer Rahman: Fear of a Brown Planet: Reverse Racism (3 minutes)
- White privilege mindset – the thinking behind the idea of “reverse racism”
- Broken Record arguments
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I had to read that two or three times, because I could never figure out reverse racism. I’m one of those people that do not believe in reverse racism, but I could never give form to my feelings. Thank you.
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When most white people complain about reverse racism, they’re not complaining about black people practicing racism on a socioeconomic, cultural or institutional level, because we simply don’t have the means to do that.
They’re referring to black people saying hurtful words about them, because we’re simply not supposed to do that. We’re only supposed to compliment them, flatter them, bolster their fragile egos and essentially make them feel better about the burdens of their supposed superiority.
So it’s little wonder that most white people are remarkably thin-skinned when it comes to getting even a tenth of the insults back that they dish out to us.
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Ben Munday:
“I had to read that two or three times, because I could never figure out reverse racism. I’m one of those people that do not believe in reverse racism, but I could never give form to my feelings. Thank you”
I’m guessing that you aren’t aware of his true feelings of the subject at hand, “reverse racism”. You probably got lost in this long winded hypothetical example.
He was being dramatically sarcastic. I’m 100% sure he doesn’t believe in reverse racism.
He was using his example to put the shoe on the other foot as to show how absurd, any suggestion that black people can apply any “real” reverse racism in its true oppressive form and not just mere words of a black individual, toward a white individual.
False equivalency personified…………….
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I am over here #CRINE. No, NOT simply CRYING, I’m CRINE! lmaoooo. I never even heard if this comedian, but ge hit the nail right on the head with this one. Lol.
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Boom! This right here Yes and HELL YES!!!! To all of this.
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It always amazed me when whites can understand why black people react to the systemic racism practiced in this country that they benefit from. Then when we have a forum such this on and others to collectively have discourse about this systematic racism practiced in this country that they benefit from they come into our spaces and have the audacity to be offended and troll just because we are reacting to their hatred. Whiteness and white privilege is really a heady drug. And they(white) are so blind that they can’t see how wrong they are when they are the perpetrators of this evil monster they created. And they are not going to give up their privileges without a bloody good fight.
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*can’t*^^^^^
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“Then when we have a forum such this on and others to collectively have discourse about this systematic racism practiced in this country that they benefit from they come into our spaces and have the audacity to be offended and troll just because we are reacting to their hatred. ”
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Like Mirkwood.
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LOM
How brave you are sitting behind your device. Nonetheless, I suspect that your brand of manhood (calling people assholes) doesn’t carry over very well into your off-line life.
How many Black men have you ever dared to call an asshole to their face? Nil to none? That’s what (in part) makes you a WHITE person, because you ACT like a (balls less) white person in so many, too many ways!
Are you sure you belong in this space where many of the readers come to escape people like you with your uninteresting views and racist attitudes?
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@Mack Lyons
Bingo! Somehow not being sensitive to white feelings has become synonymous with racism. But maybe they’re right–they are the experts!
@Lord of Mirkwood
I assume you checked “Irish, Celtic” on your census form. Oh wait, you couldn’t have because there is no selection specifically for “Irish”. And yes, even if you put “Irish” in the “some other race” category you’d still be lumped in with all the other whites.
Irish fought hard to be classified as white in America, and the Irish demonstrated how white they could be by terrorizing blacks.
So who are you fooling? No one in this society distinguishes between Irish and white. You’re one in the same, and we all know you personally consider yourself white too.
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@ Fan @ Lord of Mirkwood
I deleted comments where you used “idiot” and “asshole” as an insult. “Asshole” is now a moderated word.
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I remember reading about the history of this country and when those immigrants got off the boat and land on Ellis Island those who were Jewish and Irish and Italian assimilated into what is white culture to escape persecution and benefited from being white in America. Many of them oppressed black and brown and Asian people.
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@Lord of Merkwood: Last I checked Irish is white. I don’t know why you like to play games but you do like to derail the thread when the topic addresses social injustice or inequality in regards to black Americans and you want to bring up your Irish heritage when that’s not what is being discussed. That to me is troll behavior. I don’t understand why you come to this space when you don’t care about what is going on with black people in America.
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” Jewish and Irish and Italian assimilated into what is white culture to escape persecution and benefited from being white in America. Many of them oppressed black and brown and Asian people.”
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Speaking of which, guess what was one of the FIRST words these newcomers/immigrants learned as they stepped foot upon Ellis Island??
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Mack Lyons,
True. White people can’t take a sliver of the crap they dish out on us. If we so much as call them certain names, they go all to pieces and cry “reverse racism” in a heartbeat.
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@Fan: Yes I know it was the n-word. You probably don’t watch television but there is a show on ShowTime called The Knick named after the Knickerbocker hospital in New York and it takes place during the time of the immigrants arriving on Ellis Island and how ugly this country was and how whitenes reigned supreme and how the Irish and Italians and Jews assimilate into white society. How they treated other people of other racial groups like non humans.
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Crying “white tears” equals reverse racism
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@ Mary Burrell
WOW! You are on fire today.
Loving it!
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@Afrofem: Good evening Sis, thank you kindly.😎
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“If you ask some Black American people they’ll tell you flat out “There’s no such thing as reverse racism.” I don’t agree with that. I think there is such a thing as reverse racism, and I can be a reverse racist if I wanted to. All I would need would be a time machine, right?”
Without that time machine, reverse racism is a figment of someone’s overheated imagination.
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So if I understand Rahman correctly he follows the known prejudice+power=racism definition.
I always thought the term “reverse racism” was used to distinguish regular racism (as described by Rahman) from a sort of counter-racism levied against the historical dominant group. As that it seems to serve as a useful distinction, rather then call both scenarios just racism.
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Speaking of which, guess what was one of the FIRST words these newcomers/immigrants learned as they stepped foot upon Ellis Island??
Sweetheart, baby doll?
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Reverse racist and proud!! Hahahahaha! The absurdity of the term evokes jollity!
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We sometimes hear the term “microaggression” to refer to behaviors that may facially seem neutral but in context are aggressive or hostile, often in subtle ways. In a similar way, there is a context to every interaction in which “power” — or, if you will “micropower” — shifts the dynamics of who may or may not being racist. The most obvious example is race-driven physical violence, in which a stronger person inflicts violence on a more vulnerable one based wholly or in part racial animus. The term “reverse racism” is often casually misused by whites with respect to things like affirmative action, the existence, of the NAACP, etc., but the concept that a minority person in the US can, depending on circumstances, act in a manner that is racist in the classical sense (discrimination plus power to inflict harm) is 100% valid.
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“… the concept that a minority person in the US can, depending on circumstances, act in a manner that is racist in the classical sense (discrimination plus power to inflict harm) is 100% valid.”
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“…plus power to inflict harm”
Here’s a news flash for YOU, sir !
(Perhaps you’ve been reading those racist email forwards from your buddies for so long that it’s twisted your thinking.)
“When, or if, black people begin chaining, shipping, enslaving, selling, lynching, raping, oppressing, exploiting, shooting, jailing, whipping, maiming, torturing, evangelizing, robbing, stereotyping, bullying, bombing, segregating, building highways and thruways to dislocate businesses, communities and neighborhoods; creating SUN-DOWN towns, experimenting on, discriminating against, prohibiting, murdering, holding back/controlling in every imaginable way while HATING WHITE PEOPLE en mass via de jure and de facto racism for HUNDREDS of years, then and only then can calling black people racists make sense.”
h/t @ matari
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@ Fan,
What’s scary is that this Blanc2 character is married to a black woman and is raising mixed race kids. All that time living in the same household and I would assume, observing first hand prejudice against his POC family members, it shows that white people are white first. They pledge allegiance to white supremacy, that trumps any blood ties to black family members who are the biggest victims of this wicked institution.
White dudes who are married to black women have come and gone over the years, some Abagond has banned when a heated discussion on race with an astute black commentator brought out the unabashed pro white mindset in them.
That comment of his irks the hell out of me. These people just don’t get it, they don’t want to.
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@Merrimay
I suppose that the slaves, according to Blanc2’s definition, were being quite racist (with discrimination plus power in the classical sense – smh) against white people whenever their drapetomania kicked in and sought to free themselves from their wonderfully oppressive soulless WHITE overlords.
I too vaguely recall Blanc2 stating a long while ago that he was married to a Black woman. Wonder if he’s still married?
When he confessed to receiving those racist email forward from his “buddies” without chastising them for their thoughtlessness …. people will send that crap to only those they know will receive it …. I knew something was amiss.
Any man with a Black wife, and/or Black children would be negligent as a man to accept/receive such junk – I’m saying that as nicely as I know how.
If I said it like how I felt no one would be permitted to read it!
Whiteness is a tough drug to kick. Only a few special and unique WHITE people can renounce and forsake it.
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This was a clever way to explain “reverse racism”. For a Indian Bloke from Australia this man is very “learned”. I didn’t think Australia, South Africa, nor New Zealand could see the world this way. Glad there are some POC in these areas do see it as it is.
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I write about racism myself but not all the time. It gets old very fast. Get over it, not everyone is going to like you. As a daughter of the South, I realized this many years ago and I don’t brown nose nor try to force people to accept me. I don’t care if anyone likes me or not, I’m here to please me and that’s all I care about other than my family and close friends.
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” I don’t care if anyone likes me or not, I’m here to please me and that’s all I care about other than my family and close friends.”
@halfmoonchylde70
I gotta ask this …
Soooo, are you really pleased to be here?? 😉
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@ halfmoonchylde70
With due respect Madame/Mademoiselle you should care if somebody likes you or not. Not always, but in some very specific and important circumstances.
For example, if you are unemployed and are searching for a job, it will certainly hurt you to know that some employer has discriminated against you because he/she doesn’t like people with certain physical appearance (your appearance!). The same if you are searching for a house.
In the private sphere I agree that the most important thing is that the love we give people around us is supposed to be reciprocated to a large extent, and in the public sphere not so much (but again, is better to be liked by your neighbors than to be hated by them…)
My opinion…
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What’s your opinion on Arabs, which were more involved in slave trade then whites? And how do you track down all blacks which were complicit in slave trade?
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@Kekistan
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Well there is a problem with this. Affirmative action isn’t fair because all the things that we have on our “side” are all things that are in the past, so they don’t affect us. But affirmative action is in the present and it’s preventing people from getting into college specifically because of their race. It’s really not fair because you’re punishing people today for things their ancestors did.
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@Glenn
The affects of the past are still being felt today in various forms. It’s up to you to never figure it out I guess. Good luck with life.
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@Glenn:
If I had a violin, I’d start playing it.
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@Glenn
“all the things that we have on our “side” are all things that are in the past”
Your entire opinion is founded in that assumption. What “side” did you get your first-hand information from? Are you basing your opinion on your own lived experiences and assuming everyone else’s experience must be similar?
Also… side note… you’re right, affirmative action isn’t fair. It disproportionately benefits White women. So, when you say “sides”, it’s not clear if you’re referring to genders or what you’d likely identify as races.
Anyway, I’m assuming you’ll exercise your privilege to remain ignorant, but on the off chance you do some research and expose yourself to some first-hand stories of lived experiences, please do come back and let us know if your opinion has evolved.
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@Glenn:
Whomp, Whomp, Whomp.😒😴
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“Also… side note… you’re right, affirmative action isn’t fair. It disproportionately benefits White women.”—Exactly, but oddly many people still are not aware of this. It is as if they choose to remain ignorant. Though for a lot of white men who want to remain in control even this is upsetting.
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