Droogs":km07k7pw said:
Getting back to the incident, this just proves the sheer lunacy of the claim that non whites can't be guilty of racism.
Unfortunately, that was my first thought as well - which is pretty sad, to be honest. I'd much rather be disgusted at some berk's poor behaviour on a bus than be disgusted at idiot pseudointellectuals.
I've not seen the video, and maybe she's
amazingly hateful and vitriolic and goes about threatening people on the bus with death and so on - but I doubt it from the writeup. So It's also kind of sad for this woman that these pseudointellectuals have led us to the point where she's most likely being videoed and pointed out
specifically because she's from an ethnic minority and is being racist, and thus she's probably far more likely to get identified and arrested and charged than ten other white people who were saying racist things about middle-eastern muslims on the bus that day that everyone just ignored.
Droogs":km07k7pw said:
This woman will be recognised and identified at some point and when she is, it's more than likely the MET will be put under severe pressure for her to be prosecuted.
In fact, it looks like it's already happened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34564901
Jacob":km07k7pw said:
Nonsense. Nobody has ever claimed that non whites can't be guilty of racism.
Unfortunately it would only have taken a quick google search to determine that you are sadly and idealistically dead wrong on this one.
Here's some easy examples:
A woman in this article makes the case for black people not being racist and then goes on to blame white people for Idi Amin victimising asians...
This ex-Ken Livingstone-aide states clearly that black people in the UK cannot be racist.
This Everyday Feminism article takes a slightly more nuanced approach, drawing a line between "racism" and "racial prejudice", but still reaches the same conclusion.
and that's just from the first page of Google results.
Maybe what you meant was "nobody
sane has ever claimed that non-whites can't be guilty of racism", but the sad fact is that there are a hell of a lot of people around who do in fact make that claim.
It started out in sociology, where they defined racism, sexism and other -isms as "power plus privilege", defining the awful behaviour of the dominating group in a social situation as inherently worse than the awful behaviour of the dominat
ed group. Which is quite reasonable, bigotry with the ability to act upon it is obviously more damaging than powerless bigotry. By that definition, in the context of sociological studies - sure, it's not possible for a black person to be specifically in the "racist" category as opposed to "racially prejudiced" or "bigoted" or whatever else you want to call it. Unfortunately that's led to a lot of young people taught by these sociologists - who seem to largely have taken over American academia and started infesting our own - believing that the statement also holds by the everyday common-use and dictionary definition of the word "racist" where you just hate/discriminate against people for being a different race. The first time I came across all of this was seeing a black person use racial epithets against white people and then claim that her behaviour is perfectly fine "because black people can't be racist".
