Are we doing the progressive reddit-think thing where hating white people isn't racist though?
As a person of a rather pasty persuasion myself, there's a part of me that wants to embrace that line of thinking ("no such thing as racism towards white people"). Because, really, it comes from a place of viewing white people as superior.
In the mind of your average Redditor, racism is an act of "punching downwards" in the racial hierarchy. Hence, members of a....(God, how am I going to put this?)..."race of higher order" can't be subjected to racism by members of a..."race of lower order". Because that would be "punching upwards".
I know this all sounds very racist in and of itself, in a white supremacy sort of way. But seriously, this is the thought pattern that the so called anti-racists and wokesies actually subscribe to.
And so, why should I - as a white person - object to someone essentially placing me at the top of the racial hierarchy, without me even having to ask for it, or demand it? I mean, racial superiority seems pretty awesome, doesn't it?
So yeah, I'm actually going to chime along on this one, and say: "It's not the same thing, stupid!"
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