#i mean fuck slavs were murdered for being slavic during the shoah but that wasn't racism? what was it then?
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there's this one thing that's been bugging me for months and i desperately want to talk about it and get others' perspectives but it's to do with racism and i do not want
to be That White Person
to deal with the seemingly inevitable racists bound to show up
or 3. explain to people that different places have different histories and societies but that would be considerably more tolerable
#the oracle hath spoken#ok so. disclaimer i might actually Be That White Person and not seeing something?#so i just wanna say i am 100% open to changing my opinion and listening to experiences and knowledge#this is really more eli5 material but i do not want to deal with reddit clientel on this#because second disclaimer: there is no racism against white people like as a whole. that's bullshit and ridiculous and pathetic#but. why is racism against (specific) white people (e.g. ukrainians poles etc) supposed to be called xenophobia. and not racism.#i get it within the context of the US-american understanding of 'r*ce' which is basically skin colour right#like the populations of entire continents are seen as one#but that's not really how it works in europe or well i guess most of eurasia and africa#we can tell each other apart. and some peoples have up to thousands of years of history with each other#that's not xenophobia bc that's not strangers. that's not even newcomers.#and many times different peoples have lived together peacefully but at other times still massacred each other#i mean fuck slavs were murdered for being slavic during the shoah but that wasn't racism? what was it then?#i get why former colonies would use terms like 'caucasian' for 'anyone european looking'#but that's just ridiculous when you live comparatively close to the caucasus and there are actual people living there#people who i promise you most europeans will recognise as caucasian as in coming from these mountains#and who do actually experience racism or xenophobia or how u wanna call it in russia (and the rest of europe i guess)#and do you see how this just feels cynical to me#as child of a nation which has committed racist genocides against other white people
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