Now I hate to have to say this, since it should be always deemed as a fact, in no way am I saying being black or "African American" (however you prefer), or hispanic negatively effects your community, nor is it a bad thing (duh). my belief is that if we focus on the what is truly wrong (education, security, income, etc.) and use less of a focus on whether what race the person is, it will assist in creating less racial tension among the country.
As us Americans can see right now, there is a lot of "white supremacy" "white nationalism" and racism is being thrown in every which direction. In no way am I saying that there is not a problem, my belief is that the media's focus on minorities problems instead of what I believe they really are (what I prefer to say) is plain and simple a part of the 99%. They ARE people that we screwed over in the past, will not deny that. However, I think if we didn't label them as minority problems, instead identify it as just being financial problems, there will be a less stern look on the difference between each race.
During the democratic debate ESPECIALLY, each candidate was trying so hard to prove how "woke" they are, showing how not racist they are, and I think that is harming us.
In total, I think the focus on ending racism, (just like the war on drugs and how drugs are pretty much still winning) is creating more racism.
Edit: I see my mistake, thank you all for the replies!
Also keep note that if anyone portrayed my post as a belief that there AREN'T racial problems is incorrect, my belief was that we are pointing racism at me that truly weren't. But seeing as I don't have full knowledge about these situations, this community helped a lot.
Thank you!
I was wondering this because I see a lot of history about Blacks and Whites. But I don’t see a whole lot about Asian/ Asian American history in the United States. It’s almost like they’re left out of the history books in our public high schools.
So I kinda want this view to be changed that i'm assuming incorrectly about white males in general and this is just a "coincidence" and that this is more about people being assholes.
But my stance comes from years of experiences with particularly white males in video games.
I was bringing up the subject to a friend that I didn't grow up with a certain franchise (Super Smash Bros.) and in particular Melee. And that "Hey my family didn't grow up with a lot, so we only got a PlayStation so we didn't play Nintendo stuff." I feel like this story isn't uncommon across racial boundaries?
So I play other games and have experience gaming and the like, but I sort of mention that "Well, I didn't grow up with this so this means i'm on the backfoot in these games." I'm trying to see this as logically as possible, naturally any game, you play in your childhood or what have you and you'll gain some level of intuition or understanding. You won't be like a Chess Grandmaster, but as you grow older, you'll know on a base-level more than someone who hadn't played the game before?
But the reason I come to CMV, is that the demographic who gets offended at this, almost heinously so, without fail is white males. The reaction I get is instantly terse and akin to "You're wrong, that's not the case at all." And i'm like, "that's my experience, i've found it to be true, and for the most part it's true, why are you hard-lined stanced against this?" And it then becomes an attack upon my person where i'm defending myself instead of the point at hand.
I suppose this CMV is two-fold then, "Someone who grew up or experienced something will naturally have an advantage against someone who had not played a game before, someone else will be on the backfoot if they did not have that same experience."
And "Am I incorrectly ascribing race in maybe another factor might be more evident?"
A lot of white America like to to think black people are inherently inferior. They smile and quietly nod to themselves about blacks having lower IQ's. They argue thinking blacks are inferior isnt racism it's reality. I say this because I was just in a thread where a solid percentage of posters where making this argument. Please prove me wrong, I'd feel better about my country if I was.
