No matter who you are...class, race, sex, well known or not, and so on...if you are human you have experienced some type of discrimination in your life knowing or not knowing. It is up to each individual...every single human on the planet to let their dislike even if it is an eye squint in this type of thing.
With that statement you are completely dismissing the fact that in the real world there is a thing called power. Yeah, you can be privileged in some aspects of your life while being oppressed in some others. That doesn't change the fact that you, being white, have power over non-white people. Even if you don't want it.
So black people can use the N-word. You can't. Yeah, because you are white. That's not racism. That word was used by white people to dehumanize black people. The people offended, not the offenders, are the ones who decide who gets to use the insulting word, and who doesn't. After all, it's an insult towards them, not towards you.
Because the power isn't balanced, it's ridiculous to try to say that 'racial-prejudice' towards whites has the same effect that racism towards non-white people. It doesn't. The former is probably due to people experimenting the later.
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With that statement you are completely dismissing the fact that in the real world there is a thing called power. Yeah, you can be privileged in some aspects of your life while being oppressed in some others. That doesn't change the fact that you, being white, have power over non-white people. Even if you don't want it.
So black people can use the N-word. You can't. Yeah, because you are white. That's not racism. That word was used by white people to dehumanize black people. The people offended, not the offenders, are the ones who decide who gets to use the insulting word, and who doesn't. After all, it's an insult towards them, not towards you.
Because the power isn't balanced, it's ridiculous to try to say that 'racial-prejudice' towards whites has the same effect that racism towards non-white people. It doesn't. The former is probably due to people experimenting the later.
Here: http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/content/2002-06/24wise.cfm
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0920-06.htm
I can't explain it better.