White Lives Matter

I'm mean, I don't disagree with any of this but none of it justifies the bullying white face today, compared to other cultures who's history are pretty much similar.

You agree that all of this stuff applies to other races, so why am I being attacked?

The contexts are totally different here. African Americans only exist as a demographic because their ancestors were brought over as slaves based purely on the belief that black people are inferior - a belief that continued to stain the lawbooks way past the abolition of slavery and into living memory, and whose effects are still felt today. The racial aspect was unique to the African slave trade, and is the reason it is still relevant to discussions about present day race relations. The Arabs took whites as slaves due to religious and geographical reasons, not for racial reasons, so I don't really see how it fits into the discussion.

Well to some people that is seen as culture appropriation. Its not because one is white that they are being bullied.

If any person appropriates the culture of another race, they can expect some bullying. Not all would like to see a distinctive feature of their own culture on someone else.

lol yeah money doesn't exist amirite

Weak.

There is a lot of anecdotal fallacy here. I cant argue with it. If it did happen then yes, i am on your side.

Its illegal to be racist to anyone, not just to coloured but to white people too.

Your basing everything on this idea that white privilege doesnt exist. Im not interested in arguing whether or not it does exist, but I think it does. Simply search the term up, its on the news everyday and denying its prevalence wont forward the argument.

The contexts are totally different here. African Americans only exist as a demographic because their ancestors were brought over as slaves based purely on the belief that black people are inferior - a belief that continued to stain the lawbooks way past the abolition of slavery and into living memory, and whose effects are still felt today. The racial aspect was unique to the African slave trade, and is the reason it is still relevant to discussions about present day race relations. The Arabs took whites as slaves due to religious and geographical reasons, not for racial reasons, so I don't really see how it fits into the discussion.

But the people you're defending literally do not accept that you can be racist to a white person.

I DO think there are some racial issues in America that need to be solved. But the entire narrative surrounding it, and the people who are in political power and who are trying to fight it, are nutcases.

If it were purely racial then there must be no other incentive. You are literally saying not a single person used slavery with economic motivations. Now THAT is incredibly weak.

I'm pretty sure the enslaved are more worried about being enslaved than the reason for their enslavement.

Here's my issue with cultural appropriation: one cannot definitively state that something is exclusive to one culture. Any individual with knowledge of both social and economic history will safely agree that exposure to a variety of cultures pre-dates our era. Dreadlocks, for example, are not exclusive to 'black' cultures nor is it solely associated with the likes of Bob Marley (as a recent video at San Francisco University purports). Therefore, what right does someone have to bully another individual and making fallacious claims?

Point being, that you cannot justify bullying by alluding to cultural appropriation. You're trying to morally justify ignorance.

You call people up for not knowing their history then when somebody comes along who does know a thing or two, all you can do is resort to using worn out meme-speak to defensively nitpick at clumsy phrasing while ignoring the meat of the argument. Unless you want to argue against the idea that at the heart of the Atlantic slave trade lay a deeply racist belief system, your post really doesn't bear much impact on mine. Slavery is an economic tool, it goes without saying that there are economic incentives to use slavery. That doesn't mean you get to ignore the racial ideology that was used as a moral justification for the Atlantic slave trade, and the impact that ideology has had on present day society.

you moron BLM wasnt even mentioned here.

You call people up for not knowing their history then when somebody comes along who does know a thing or two, all you can do is resort to using worn out meme-speak to defensively nitpick at clumsy phrasing while ignoring the meat of the argument. Unless you want to argue against the idea that at the heart of the Atlantic slave trade lay a deeply racist belief system, your post really doesn't bear much impact on mine. Slavery is an economic tool, it goes without saying that there are economic incentives to use slavery. That doesn't mean you get to ignore the racial ideology that was used as a moral justification for the Atlantic slave trade, and the impact that ideology has had on present day society.

I don't give a ****.

You don't know your history. Muslim slavery lasted much longer than white slavery, it WAS in the west (given the word slave comes from Europian Slav; ie Greeks etc).

Yes Apartied was racist why would I argue that.