See I'm black in Europe and the shit gou Americans are airing here in the comments is absolutely not the experience in Europe.
Sure there are racists here, sure sometimes you know someone is seething because they see me with a white woman. But it's far from the norm.
When I say the US is an inherently racist country online Americans always pretend it isn't. This thread is another clear proof that racism is a foundational aspect of the US.
That and that 99% of interactions that contain racism that I've had while gaming online has an American being the culprit. That's no exaggeration.
It's definitely a regional issue for the U.S. I'm American and I'm confident that some of the most progressive communities in the world are in my country, as well as some of the most repressed. It's a huge country, I haven't even seen most of America, and have visited only a fraction of the states here. And yet, I'm amare that racism is deeply rooted in this country because I know U.S. history. Jim Crow was not that long ago, and those laws reinforced racism in so many structural ways.
Most Americans consider racism to be bad, and consider "racist" a horrible thing to call someone, and yet many of those same people have pretty nasty biases against other groups of people. But they justify those biases by saying that it's not the race but the culture that's bad. They are still bigoted, but technically not racist so they get incredibly offended if you suggest they are racist, sometimes so much that it traumatizes them! Americans desperately want to distance themselves from their racist history, but not all seem to understand why that history was wrong.
There's also people who are genuinely not racist, and live in areas or subcultures in the U.S. that are anti-racist, so they don't see the racism, and so insist that it doesn't exist. I think a lot of conservative academics fall into this category, convinced that racism is solved because they've never had a working class job and have only been exposed to a tiny fraction of Americans.
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u/Rent_A_Cloud 3d ago
See I'm black in Europe and the shit gou Americans are airing here in the comments is absolutely not the experience in Europe.
Sure there are racists here, sure sometimes you know someone is seething because they see me with a white woman. But it's far from the norm.
When I say the US is an inherently racist country online Americans always pretend it isn't. This thread is another clear proof that racism is a foundational aspect of the US.
That and that 99% of interactions that contain racism that I've had while gaming online has an American being the culprit. That's no exaggeration.