What’s important is that you managed to feel superior to them, so good for you.

plus ça change...

My wife had a photoshoot done shortly after we were married (technically I was in it, but for like 2 pictures out of 50), which is a big industry in China. And, I don’t know how to describe it... you know when you wake up in the morning and your hair looks particularly good, or another day when your makeup game is…

So you believe people involved in a conflict are less likely to be biased than observers? Really? Do you understand what bias is?

You said that both groups were ‘similarly oppressed’ that is equating the treatment of both groups. No two ways about it.

“What I meant to say is when you talk about ghettos traditionally, what you’re talking about is African-American communities,” Sanders told a gaggle of reporters on the runway just outside of the campaign’s charter plane.

I don’t think it is easy to see that. I see individuals who have murdered based on race and I see a population who were willing to accept black people as lesser. I don’t see an overall goal of the extermination of black people.

I read. I am taught. I learn. While I can’t experience things first hand, I rely on the teachings of those who have. Also, the tradeoff of not experiencing a conflict first hand is that I get to experience it with significantly less bias than by those who are a part of it.

While there are various definitions of the term, almost all international bodies of law officially adjudicate the crime of genocide pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG).^[3] This and other definitions are generally regarded by the majority of genocide scholars to…

You believe that the average black person is more educated on slavery than the average white person? Do they get special lessons?

Umm... not to belittle this issue, but including trolling in the definition should pretty much make this 100% across the board of both genders, no? Haven’t we all had to deal with trolls at some point?

If you, good white person, don’t see my race, you may miss the way the world treats me. And if that way is unfair or dangerous, you’ll miss that too. And if you don’t see the injustice, you won’t speak up about that problem, which means it won’t be solved, and it will continue.

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.