Tbh, the white=good, brown/black=bad type of racism is a very regionalized thing that’s super big in the US but e.g. not as prevalent in Europe.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, Eurpean racists hate black people too, but they hate white Polish/Seribian/Albanian/Romanian/Bulgarian/Turkish/… people easily just as much, and they hate white-looking muslims even more than black people.
Racism and xenophobia is the same thing (as evidenced by both things actually using the same term in most european languages). It’s an “us vs them” thing that separates the majority from any random minority that they can oppress. In the US the minorities were mostly people from Africa, Asia or the Americans, and they had to band together with all sorts of European people to become a majority, but in Europe each country has their own majority and thus they hate on the foreigners from 50km over the border in either direction.
White, white, white…I see a pattern of what they’re really against here.
Of course, Italians didn’t used to be considered white, and the Irish weren’t the good kind of white, but that changed decades ago.
Tbh, the white=good, brown/black=bad type of racism is a very regionalized thing that’s super big in the US but e.g. not as prevalent in Europe.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, Eurpean racists hate black people too, but they hate white Polish/Seribian/Albanian/Romanian/Bulgarian/Turkish/… people easily just as much, and they hate white-looking muslims even more than black people.
Racism and xenophobia is the same thing (as evidenced by both things actually using the same term in most european languages). It’s an “us vs them” thing that separates the majority from any random minority that they can oppress. In the US the minorities were mostly people from Africa, Asia or the Americans, and they had to band together with all sorts of European people to become a majority, but in Europe each country has their own majority and thus they hate on the foreigners from 50km over the border in either direction.
Yeah, importing black people specifically as slaves is very deeply rooted in US culture in a way that it isn’t in Europe.