Reverie
2 min readAug 30, 2020

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Well for one thing, I'm not American so my actions or lack of action is not complicit in anything that happens in America. Unless you wanna go "the entire world needs to take action on America" in which case I could call you complicit on all the other human rights violations across the world.

Also there are millions of "white" people across the world who aren't American or even British. The Irish, the Scandinavians, the Russians, the Western and Eastern Europeans, the pale skinned and blue eyed Afghan ethnicities etc.

They're also "white". Would you say they lack humanity?

"Internationally, it's not much better" actually in many countries, including majority POC countries, anti-black racism is WORSE than it is in America. There are racist people all across the world and millions of them aren't white and don't have any connection to being white.

Yes there are disgusting white people, and imperialist white societies, and most of the Western world is to a large extent benefiting from imperialism and colonialism even if not all of them benefit from slavery.

None of this makes white people inherently less HUMAN than any other race though. Everyone is capable of inhuman acts. The black warlords who SOLD their own people into slavery and started the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Japanese who committed mass torture and murder across China and the Pacific during WWII. The Aztecs who committed human sacrifice as an integral part of their civilisation. The Chinese who turned on each other during the Cultural Revolution. The Rwandan genocide (no white people required). The Indians who considered it morally right for widows to be burned alive with their dead husbands. In ANY race and civilisation there have been horrendous, brutal atrocities. We are all capable of it. It's not due to being white. That's my point.

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Reverie
Reverie

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