Americans are divided on whether society overlooks racial discrimination or sees it where it doesn’t exist
pewresearch.org
Views on this have changed in recent years, according to Pew Research Center surveys. In 2019, 57% said people overlooking racial discrimination was the bigger problem, while 42% pointed to people seeing it where it really didn’t exist. That gap has narrowed from 15 to 8 percentage points.
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I'm white and have never been accused of being racist. It's something you're doing, it's not the color of your skin.
Yep I'm a white dude as well, never been called racist in my life. Probably because I don't do or say racist shit. It's not very difficult.
No, it’s probably the people they’re talking to. I’m White and I’ve never been accused of racism by anyone that knows me, but I’ve been told by plenty of overzealous “SJW”-types that my privileged position in society makes me inherently racist, even if I don’t harbor any overtly racist views. Likewise, I’ve been called a “racist cracker” when I’ve simply refused to give someone change on the street when asked for it. Being racist has become a kind of White stereotype in our culture. I totally understand what the other poster is talking about. Sure, maybe it is something they’re doing, but I could easily see it not being that.
So, in your scenario, person gets called names by a few ignorant people and flips to full on racist?
I think it's more likely they were already racist and getting their feelings hurt allows them to justify it.
No, that’s not what I’m saying at all. I can’t even figure out how you got that from what I was saying, and I’m not going to wreck my brain about a comment that seems on its face to be in bad faith to begin with.
They could also be one of those people who thinks talking about racism of any form means that automatically all white people are the ones being racist and that helping specifically anyone of any specific race is racist against white people.
Yeah, wow, a stranger on the internet could be a lot of things. Let’s assume the worst, just because it fits with our personal racist biases!