I mean, sure, centuries of slavery and systematic oppression may have been kind of bad for African Americans, but the real hardship is a white guy becoming aware of it. Won’t somebody think of the white men? ::clutches pearls::
But I will agree, I come to hn for a higher level of discourse. And the whole comment thread doesn’t belong here. As long as it is, however, I think it’s important to rebut absurdity.
Also, it would have been pretty easy to communicate your point without the mockery.
That person may have never once been racist or shitty to someone yet they have society telling them they are terrible. Blaming whole groups of people for the actions of portions of that group is not how things are going to change. You lose allies from people within those groups because they begin to get attacked. And if you’re thinking “who cares about those people,” think if equality really is your goal or is it really something else.
It seems like people are more about bringing the other side down instead of bringing everyone up.
There are groups of people that see it as being in their interests to sow division.