Okay guys, I'm going to get serious with you right now--I know I mostly write lighthearted things: notes, short stories and poems most of the time, but when I get serious--I get serious and right now, that is precisely what I am. This is a topic that I feel needs to be discussed and acknowledged because I've dealt with this my entire life and have always felt bad if I ever voiced or even thought I was treated wrong because others would make me feel awful about it. But no more. No one should ever feel bad because they are treated wrong and people just think it's acceptable.
Here we go, guys. Whenever you use "white privilege" to describe something about people--you're being racist against whites. It's not a matter of being treated specially. We are judged and belittled and hated because of our race just as much as any other race. I HATE that race even has to be a topic in this day and age because it really shouldn't be, but if we're going to talk about racism how about we discuss the fact that people can call whites crackers and make jokes about "white privilege" TO OUR FACES and not be called racist when if we turned it around and said similar things about another race we would be called racist? There's a double standard here just like there is in most things and I really feel like if you're gonna call racism, then you have to call it all the way across the board--
Racism against Asians
Racism against Middle Easterners
Racism against Italians
Racism against Mexicans
Racism against Hispanics
Racism against Blacks
Racism against every single culture and race ever
And yes, racism against Whites.
Stop trying to shame one culture/race and blame them for everything.
Whites have racism thrust in their faces by others every day and don't you dare think we don't know how it feels. We do.
Every time someone assumes we have a nice car--racism.
Every time anyone assumes anything about whites (much like assuming things about other cultures and races)--racism.
We aren't even allowed to speak up about it because "we're white and we're privileged and we're special." We can't say anything about it because people will get in our faces and accuse us of expecting special treatment when all ANY human being wants is to be treated like just that.
A. Human. Being.
We don't want to be treated any particular way based on the color of our skin. We are people. We want to be treated normally and kindly JUST as badly as any other culture or race wants to be treated.
Racism against whites is a real thing and I know that there will be people trying to fight me on this, but I promise you it exists. And I really have no intention of arguing, I just wanted to get this out there because it should be talked about at some point and to some extent.
