First, I think it's really unhelpful to try to ascribe percentages to this kind of thing. Neither of us could possibly support whatever number we chose statistically. We'd just be picking a number out of the air based on our feelings.
Second, we'd have to define what we're talking about when we talk about raci…
First, I think it's really unhelpful to try to ascribe percentages to this kind of thing. Neither of us could possibly support whatever number we chose statistically. We'd just be picking a number out of the air based on our feelings.
Second, we'd have to define what we're talking about when we talk about racism. Mean articles on the internet? Yep, almost exclusively anti-white. I'd be hard pressed to even find anything written online against black people.
Criticism of "whiteness" in public discourse? Again, the majority of that kind of stereotyping is anti-white. This kind of stuff is in the air, a generalised feeling that white people are collectively guilty for something. I'm sure all white people can feel it, but very few white people have experienced any of it personally. There is, in fact, data to support this. 55% of white Americans think that there's racism against white people, yet less than 20% can give a single example of racism targeted against them personally.
*This* is the distinction I'm trying to make. Black people, I think, are far more likely to experience racism that materially affects their lives. White people are more likely to experience racism that affects their feelings. And this only if they spend too much time online.
White people who don't read Medium or use Twitter and aren't college age will have had almost all of the current nonsense pass them by. But black people? There's no escape. As I wrote in an article not long ago, *every black person* has a story about racism. Not a mean blog post on Medium. Somebody, in their actual daily life, who discriminated against them personally. Again, very few white people have experienced this.
There are ways in which this is changing. Especially in schools. Which is why I've spent more time recently talking about anti-white racism in schools. I'm sickened by what I'm seeing there. These white children are experiencing racism which is actually affecting their lives negatively. But black people experience this all the time. And have been for generations.
There are two problems here.
First, I think it's really unhelpful to try to ascribe percentages to this kind of thing. Neither of us could possibly support whatever number we chose statistically. We'd just be picking a number out of the air based on our feelings.
Second, we'd have to define what we're talking about when we talk about racism. Mean articles on the internet? Yep, almost exclusively anti-white. I'd be hard pressed to even find anything written online against black people.
Criticism of "whiteness" in public discourse? Again, the majority of that kind of stereotyping is anti-white. This kind of stuff is in the air, a generalised feeling that white people are collectively guilty for something. I'm sure all white people can feel it, but very few white people have experienced any of it personally. There is, in fact, data to support this. 55% of white Americans think that there's racism against white people, yet less than 20% can give a single example of racism targeted against them personally.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
*This* is the distinction I'm trying to make. Black people, I think, are far more likely to experience racism that materially affects their lives. White people are more likely to experience racism that affects their feelings. And this only if they spend too much time online.
White people who don't read Medium or use Twitter and aren't college age will have had almost all of the current nonsense pass them by. But black people? There's no escape. As I wrote in an article not long ago, *every black person* has a story about racism. Not a mean blog post on Medium. Somebody, in their actual daily life, who discriminated against them personally. Again, very few white people have experienced this.
There are ways in which this is changing. Especially in schools. Which is why I've spent more time recently talking about anti-white racism in schools. I'm sickened by what I'm seeing there. These white children are experiencing racism which is actually affecting their lives negatively. But black people experience this all the time. And have been for generations.