I’ve never heard someone say the N word in person until today I think. One minority (aboriginal) telling me how something about blacks but using the N word instead of blacks/African-american.

There are a lot of other smaller instances I’ve seen in my personal life too.

I’ve never seen Indian versus Pakistan racism, but I would at least get why that might happen, since history.

In public policy, the majority (caucasians) are prob the most racist here, but in casual conversation I might hear more minority vs minority racism. I think this partially might be because caucasians have it drilled into them (my city) that they have to not be racist in convo?

I’ve never understood why some minority groups didn’t come out to support black lives matter (here), but it seems to look like bc they don’t care to help out blm bc its not explicitly minority-name-here lives matter

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  • comfy
    5•2 years ago

    As many people mentioned in a crosspost to /c/anarchism, and by Inbrededcanadian in this post:

    Being a minority doesn’t imply you have solidarity with other minorities. I think they should, but that’s my opinion.

    It doesn’t have to be reflecting racism of others. It can be, yes, but it doesn’t have to be.

    Imagine an indigenous person of a country, like the Aboriginal Australians mentioned by the post creator. Imagine an individual holds the nationalist racist view of ‘This is our land. Other races shouldn’t be tolerated here’. As a result, they hate Chinese, Anglo-Saxons, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Greeks, Italians, Native Americans, Brazilians, Somalians, Russians, Portuguese, Cubans and basically everyone who isn’t their in-group.

    Hating other minorities is congruent with that persons’ world view. They may openly insult an African-American in America getting attention for BLM which overshadows this person’s own struggle in the Australian news, instead of having solidarity and embracing the local adaption of BLM that circulated over in Australia.