I’m not arguing that what was done to black people wasn’t horrific, but it is still orders of magnitude away from genocide. Both in numerical terms and in moral ones.

I’ve never heard a white person say it, but then it’s not a common phrase in my country. I understand the principle behind it though.

Or perhaps even “I’m going to treat you as I would another white person, which is how I treat everyone” at that point... it’s not even subconscious racism. If you are treating everyone the same, regarding the default as ‘white’ is essentially meaningless.

Words have meanings. Slavery is terrible. Genocide is also terrible. That does not mean they are the same thing.

338,000 black slaves were transported to America. There are now 42 million black people in the US. If that was an attempt at genocide, I’d say it was a hard fail.

What if non-white people say it? Are they pretending to not even acknowledge your non-whiteness or your non-blackness, or non-browness or whatever shade they may happen to be?

You’re only helping him make his point here.

You can say it whenever you like, wherever you like. Regardless of race.

similarly-oppressed group

How mixed? The article doesn’t say if you’re allowed an opinion or not.

He died because the policeman was American. Even in the UK, which is at least as racist, cops don’t shoot kids.

They are owned and operated by members of the public companies or bodies. It’s public as opposed to state-owned/operated.

You can work here. Apart from x job.

But what if it’s done in the best possible taste?

I mean, “Men changing diapers”? Seriously? SERIOUSLY??!! I thought we are past this.

Adolf says hi.

From the sounds of it her role is closer to MacBeth rather than lady MacBeth.

You understand you can be both foreign born and a citizen at the same time? Good job conflating foreign born citizens and illegal immigrants though.

ITT: American ethnocentrism

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