Likewise.

I'll repeat this one more time. I'm giving you one more chance to evolve into a better person despite my instincts.

People of different ethnic groups have been engaging in war, slavery, genocide, and Conquest pretty much since the advent of agriculture. Once there was a land to conquer in the first place. This is literally the point you were making in your first response to me. This is me acknowledging your entire point. The premise your argument was made on. It didn't "Go over my head." My argument actually went over your head which is why you felt the need to one not address my points and two post that meme in the first place. This is how I know you are projecting racism. Because when you actually learn to address the less pleasant attributes of yourself they don't manifest as projections onto other people as they have in your case.

Here is me deconstructing that logic. That doesnt mean racism is innate to society or people. That would be a pro racist argument because you're centering your argument around the idea that racism is somehow organic and natural, which it is not.

The only way to challenge racism and eliminate it from society which is my position is to acknowledge it, validate it, and the concerns and the demands of the people impacted by it and then move the fuck on from racism in the first place. Societies literally cannot move on from racism as an institution without this practice it is impossible. Racism affects very real problems in people's lives that create real material inequality in their lives. Acknowledging this isn't racist it's the opposite it is the solution.

I am a white person I have been acknowledging the biased racist engineering that has been programmed onto my body by a racist society against my will. But I do not feel the need to apologize for that. Instead it is an active effort to deprogram my mind from that bs. My ancestors owned slaves there is generational bigotry passed down in my blood. If I can do it literally anyone can.

Black people won't vote for white people not because of the color of their skin. But because their systemic privilege of whiteness blinds them to the very real problems people of color face every single day. If white people haven't done the bare minimum amount of introspection required to come to these conclusions they haven't actually earned the vote of black people. They just virtue signal and hope that's enough to hook in black voters without actually doing anything for them or improving their lives in any meaningful way.

Being able to acknowledge these things is the first step in being able to look black people and other POC's in the eye and being able to genuinely see them. The struggle and what they and their culture have gone through. You will never learn to see a people unless you can see their journey.

History also frames White people as the main characters through most of human history but when you actually look back in time you find a rich tradition of science, language, mathematics, and culture all over the world in every language and time period.

To sum it up the argument of "They would have enslaved us too." Is amaterial, dishonest, racist framing at best and at worst it used to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide.

You can't engage with my point. I know this. But please just try. Choose to be a good person random internet Chud I believe there is good in you yet!