Young-Ice;3812008 said:
You are speaking in absolute terms. Say "majority" "mostly" "close to all".
When you say "white people" you speak on the totality.
I shouldn't have to say "majority," "mostly," or "close to all" in every line. If I've made a blanket statement saying that I'm not talking about every individual white person, but more the white race as a supergroup, which I have on multiple ocassions, any reasonable and intelligent person should understand that the "majority," "mostly," and "close to all" are implied.
You acknowledge there are groups of white people who have no hand in this.
(particularly the ones of this generation)
yet condemn the totality anyways.
I haven't condemned anyone. I've pointed out that the group as a whole has been what many would consider devilish over the past millenium or so. Again, at no point have I said that every white person contributed to genocide. I simply pointed out that there have been genocides committed by the white race or members of the white race acting largely on behalf of the white race if you prefer.
You are saying factual things.
But so are white people when they give statistics (peep heyslicks post) that paint black americans in a negative light.
The difference is their "facts" consist mostly of statistics taken out of context. Heyslick's post is the perfect example. Whites constantly use numbers like that to suggest that blacks are more racist than whites because of the higher number of interracial attacks. If you've heard any reputable person, black or white, address those numbers, they quickly point out that the vast majority of the interracial crimes commited by blacks are socio/economic in motivation not racial. The exact opposite is the case for the white interracial crime. So you see the "facts" that white people usually give is data or information skewed to fit their agenda. The facts that I present are indisputable. Whites enslaved blacks for hundreds of years. Whites drove the Native American nearly to extinction and groups such as the Native Tasmanians completely to extinction. Whites have treated people of other races like shit for decades despite the fact that many of them were brought to those countries by the very whites that mistreated them. Those aren't examples of doctored data. They are indisputable and undeniable truths.
What is the difference between white people saying all black people are *insert adjective here* based on the actions of a few
and black people saying all white people are *insert adjective here* based on the actions of their ancestors?
There is no difference, but as I've stated several times now. I never said any such thing. If you can point out the place where I said all white people have done anything please do. Good luck on that though cause I didn't say it. What I said is that the White race as a group has and continues to do very devilish deeds. Sure not all whites in owned slaves back in the day, but they most certainly took part in the prosperity that the institution of slavery brought to this country. Not all whites were out there killing Native Americans, but when those natives were cleared off their lands, you can bet those people moved in and built their lives. So just because they weren't the ones digging the holes doesn't mean they didn't get dirty. And that's why more of the white community is guilty than you try to imply. If some random black person that I don't know robs and kills a white man. I have nothing to do with that. It's not a reflection on me. However, if I'm denied a job because of the color of my skin and a white person gets that job knowing that I never had a chance because of racism, then that white person is part of the problem.