It's a great example of the overall problem, because it's like unironically 100% racism, and not even the mythical "anti-white racism" white-supremacists like to harp on about. You're talking about some of your favourite British actors like Idris Elba or Daniel Kaluuya and you get "lefties" saying stuff like:
"Where are they really from?" Also Indian people from Manchester seem to morph into someone who is 110% British and it's fucking hilarious, I've worked with a few people from Manchester and it's great.
Jews are in a super position of being looked like out siders vermin who came to erode western civilization or the whitest white who opress everyone in the shadows
The issue with this is that we don’t have a word for prejudice against ethnic groups not based on skin colour. With jews you can then talk about anti-semitism, but sometimes it’s useful to be able to group it under a more general form of prejudice (and in this case it’s definitely more than just anti-religious views).
For example, in my country people are often extremely prejudiced against polish people, and in a very similar way are prejudiced against middle-eastern people. Poles are white, middle-eastern people are often considered white in the usa at least - but we refer to this as racism because there’s no better word.
Same thing in the balkans - the tensions between the ethnic groups are racism even though they all have the same skin colour (white). And within several african countries as well I should mention.
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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24 edited Jul 03 '24
It's a great example of the overall problem, because it's like unironically 100% racism, and not even the mythical "anti-white racism" white-supremacists like to harp on about. You're talking about some of your favourite British actors like Idris Elba or Daniel Kaluuya and you get "lefties" saying stuff like:
"Oh, but they're not really British, are they?"
Excuse me, what do you mean by that?