We're pretty biased against Jubilee but drop us your best poetry bars below!!! Honestly I wasnt gonna publish this video because of that but whatever. You can make your own assessment and tell us what yall think.
@@eightRedHerrings Agree! So many behaviours now - particularly online - are motivated by getting a cookie (like, follow, compliment) - it's how you behave when no one is watching, or no one will know. There's a lot of virtue signaling around right now...as Jordan Peterson describes it, a 'quick hit' to virtue. It's a lot less glamourous, but a lot more meaningful, to quietly be a good person and treat people fairly and with respect.
@@gworld7926 clearly you havent seen what's going on lately. Some of the founders of blm and Antifa have called for all white people to be killed. People called racist for supporting trump. Race hate crimes against random people. Get off your high horse racism is practised by all colours and all races. Yet somehow you see nothing. Clown
How to not be racist: Don't center your identity in your own race. When I gave up reasons to differentiate myself, it was easier to integrate with other people. You cannot change your cultural background and its influences on your perspective but people often let it segregate them because they have this mindset that you'll "never understand me". Yet we see ourselves in protagonists that live in such extreme narratives like Naruto, ATLA, Kill Bill, etc.
Excellent sentiment, when you realize that each person you casually pass on the street taking a walk has a life, wishes, and dreams as deep and complex as your own it makes you empathetic towards everyone, not just people who look like you.
I get your point. If I may, would you consider changing that statement to say: Don't center your thoughts of others based on your identity in your own race? If we could get everyone to change their way of thinking, racism wouldn't exist. Its also easier to ask other people to change than to acknowledge the change must come from within. I also think race is confused with ethnicity. In HS, I had 2 Cuban friends. 1 was a girl who looked Greek or Sicilian while the other looked like just a black guy. The girl played down her race while the boy was very expressive. They both portrayed themselves equally well but very different with the same cultural background. While I agree my background should not dictate my thoughts, I also think no one should hide their background to be comfortable for others. Do you and let me do me, without the assumptions. If you have assumptions or stereotypical thoughts based on your idea of my race, ethnicity, culture or religion, isn't that a you problem?
Negrito isn’t a negative word. It literally translates to “little black” but the “little” part is a sign of affection. And Latinos commonly call each other by physical traits such as “güerito” (little white) “morenito” (little brown) “flaquito” (little skinny) “gordito” (little fat) etc Ofc they CAN be used in a negative way based on the tone of the conversation but it’s not inherently negative at all. It’s also not entirely just for black people, but for anyone who has dark skin in general.
It’s strange how “anti-racism” isn’t the same thing as “not being racist” to the more progressive parts of society. It’s not ok to JUST be the change you want to see in the world, but you have to try to force others to be like you. There’s a difference between leading by example, and whatever social tyranny the anti-racism crowd is pushing. I was raised to see people as people first. Yes I still describe people as black or white because that’s an easy descriptor, but that almost never comes into play with how I think about them. And when it does, I recognize it and move past it. I don’t need other people making me feel guilty for things I didn’t do, don’t do, and will never do. And honestly, much of the “anti-racism” crowd are actually promoting racism. They belittle minority voices, and like one person said in here “using your privilege” to raise black voices up. I thoroughly believe that if black people, or any people, have legitimate concerns, they have several ways of using their own voice to make a difference. I don’t think black people need my help. I think they have the same ability I do to help themselves and those around them. But then again, I don’t see them as “black” people, I just see them as people who happen to be born with more melanin. Unfortunately there are people, including most of the Black-American community, that don’t see themselves that way, and it’s holding them back more than any outside racism or discrimination. There are more things that aren’t racism and discrimination holding black people back than the racism and discrimination these people are talking about has in the last decade or 2 (or potentially 3 or 4.)
Nah, than he is racist. You see, you have to grant special races priviledge because of your systemic privilage. As far as avtivist are concerned, you are raising Hitler.
@Acquired Cents let's be honest, you judge people whether you like it or not. Might as well judge them on their character and choices rather than something superficial like their skin
I am also hispanic and in our culture we use “-ito” on almost everything. When I have heard people say it, it has never meant on a negative connotation. It is actually a more friendly way of mentioning things. Taco vs taquito, negro vs negrito, ciesta va ciestita, ect.
I've got a turban on, but I'm not a Sikh. Big head on my shoulders, so I'm shampooing. Pass her the pillow, tell her get on her knees. But I'm still a gentleman so I still say please. Return the favor, got that equality. It's not the "Simpzone", it's "Bioligy". Call this spoken word, speaking without a beat. Is this channel ZIAS!, no it's Aba & Preach. I ain't gonna stop, I'll go for leagues. Reading so long they like desist and cease. They're tired of my voice, they don't want me to breath. That's that BLM versus ACAB. And the drama continues, we got more me too tweets. Side note: I caught a Mewtwo with an ultra ball in 2003. Back to the beat, thanks for vibing with me. I really hope we conquer this Covid 19. Thanks to comedians who keep our voices free. If only we had O'neal, Patrice, R I P. I am Also Known as Delano T. Jarrett. Peace.
@@dre6337 Are you done with those words on the run? Dre where you been, and where's Eminem? Letters on my mind and they weigh a ton. Ok, deuces, time for hibernation.
My best answer would be: People are cool to you? - Be cool to them. People are shitty to you? - Avoid them & don't engage. You end up making tons of friends and avoiding sh*tty people along the way and @ the end of the day, the world is a slightly better place...judging someone by skin colour is just downright lazy
Also, dont try to be in a "tribe", because it can unconsciously give you a bias of those outside of your "tribe". And I think it's important to focus on individuals and not on groups, and culture can be thrown our the window. If shouldn't matter your culture, get over you bias and use that non biased look to find out what really matters.
Not supporting Black Lives Matter, the movement, and not supporting the idea that black lives matter are very different things. Very few people truly think that the life of a black person doesn't matter. Those people are VERY rare to find. But MOST people do not support the Black Lives Matter organization's agenda. People aren't interested in defunding the police and open race wars. People don't want their marxist vision of the future. Conflating somebody that rejects your radical politics with racism is the height of dishonesty.
The only black Voices that they want elevated are people who share their world view. If you try to elevate someone like Anthony Brian Logan or someone else who disagrees with their world view they will try to silence them. I've seen it many times.
@@LM-ix7pk I love the comments section on abanpreachs channel bc there are other people here who know of people like Elder and Sowell. Great men but I guess their "black voices" don't matter too much
That was the first thing I noticed about this video, specifically. Thank you for saying it for me because I don’t know if I would have had the balls to.
"...america is way more capitalistic than they racist..." By far this is the biggest point made in this video. Green tumps all; morality, political correctness, who you like and marry, who you date, who you admire, etc etc. In a way green is the great equaliser.
The ways to be an “anti-racist” on a micro scale, I think, are two fold. The first is the easiest in terms of not demonizing another basically portraying them as fervently as lesser and bad. The second is to not infantilize the other race as if they can do no wrong or great evil aka can’t do anything themselves. Other races are just people with different faces and melanin levels. That’s it.
Muhammed Majeed lmao ok bro, just go into your eyes, rip out the cones in there that allow you to see color and get back to me. That shit is disingenuous. You can’t run away from color. It’s part of who you are literally. If you don’t see it, others will. Accept it for what it is.
Anyone who says they don't see color is a lier its ok to see color it is not ok to discriminate based on color and how you be anti racist its called just dont be racist the idea that your supposed to magically make every racist not a racist is retarded and pointless unless they are using that racism to hurt people leave them the fuck alone plain and simple
sounds like you both are projecting the fact that you can't/refuse to see people as individuals... And yes if I don't see color, others probably will (at the moment) but shouldn't we all strive to...idk stop seeing colour and "judge people on the content of their character"?
@@faeiger9215 We can judge people on their character while still seeing color, it's part of a person's identity, it's like gender, it's really hard to just ignore.
When I think of green i think of envy before I think of money... The UK and US envy what slot of other natural resources countries have. Hence why money is green it to me anyway
Abba's poem was Lisa's poem from Simpsons I had a cat named snowball she died she died Mom said she was sleeping..she lied she lied. Why oh why is my dog dead Couldn't that crystler have hit me instead?
Do you think everyone is an overt racist lmao? If someone in your circle had racist views and didn't want you to know, you wouldn't know. It's really not hard, people lie about who they are everyday. Even if all your friends were black, at least a couple of them would have racist views of Asian and white people.
😂😭 Adding the “ito” at the end of “negro” is an attempt at a term of endearment. I can understand how it’d be perceived as rude and offensive, but it’s funny that it is an attempt at being anti-racist. Fr. Negrito is also replaced with “Moreno” which just means tan person.
In Portuguese is pretty much the same, the word Negro, is actually not that offensive. When someone is being racist it's often used the word Preto(black) as an offensive term.
@@DeanAdventure what do you perceive to be the difference between dark skin and tan? “Me puse morena porque estuve en el sol.” If you can “become” morena/moreno, don’t you think it’s closer in meaning to tan? You can become tan. But you can’t become Black. And Black people can also become tan or morena/moreno, depending on how “pigmented” (melanated?) their skin naturally is. No?
@@PuroAstrology I would not say became "moreno". I think it would be more proper to call a tan person color cafe claro, or bronceado, tostado, etc. I would say broncear or "bronze" would be the best term? Ne?
Doesn't negrito mean little black people tho? I guess it might be discriminating to African Americans since they're not little, but African descended native Filipinos call themselves negritos
Does voting really help though? There were race issues in the US before, during and after they had a Black President 🤷🏽♂️. These politicians mainly care about themselves and there financiers. My country has a Westminster system and well we mainly vote based on race and in the end the poor continue to suffer while the rich get richer.
Its the establishment that surrounds the President(s) that make this kind of issue persist. Just look at Biden, 47years in office the only people enriched off of his labors as a senator have been his immediate family. Many politicians just like him. Two things weed this out: term limits, and *voting* in non-establishment politicians that don't owe a million favors, aren't looking for money, and are interesting in clearing out the rot. This is why voting for people like Trump is so important. He's a billionaire, he's not looking to enrich himself by taking office; his intentions are true. He is an outsider, not a politician; he can't be pressured or pulled along by puppet strings. Right now the establishment players(R.I.N.O.s and D.I.N.O.s) are scared out of their mind that it's finally going to come crashing down. Biden's involvement in Ukraine, China and potentially Russia now too, is just the first Jenga block being tugged on to clean out the swap. 3/4 of Trump's first term was crippled due to the continuous onslaught of allegations levied at him. He needs 4 more years to see that these Biden leads continue to get pursued and don't get shut down by the establishment.
These issues happened more when Obama was president. If he was consistent on race relations the United States would have progressed more on race relations (even if the US has progressed a whole ton).
@@requiem4adream33 eh bit of a longshot to say trump doesn't wanna be president for the money. Being a billionaire doesn't mean you don't care about money. It's actually the opposite. He's a billionaire BECAUSE he cares about money. He's had some policies that do good for black people, but his main aim is just to make political policies that put less restrictions on his business.
TRUTH. The more I've researched minorities in America of all origins, the more this fact becomes clear. I can empathize with why someone would think this whole mess is 100% because of racism, but it's just not true. These people have obviously never traveled to another country with a homogeneous population and stayed long enough to see real racism in action.
Not entirely true. Race is the main factor. Race is socially constructed, not biological. The origins of race trace back to slavery when it was used as a means to oppress and enslave. It's the basis of which society and institutions have been founded by white supremacists. Blackness isn't a single culture or race, neither is whiteness. We have to abolish race and respect people individually and learn about individual cultures. The idea of a "black community" is in itself perpetuating the idea that black people are a monolith and is why people stereotype. Slavery lead to segregation and poverty/black people in lower classes. It all started with race and if people truly want equality, it must end with race.
Ray I agree sort of, it seems like this idea of race and racism really started with america and founding of america. But historically among the worlds nation there’s always been the issue of colorism . The idea that a group of people is superior due to their lighter skin but the dark skinned people are inferior. You can see this today especially in southern american countries or even in southeast and east asian countries such as India. This was also seen in ancient Egypt, where the Egyptian had lighter skin and saw Israelites who had darker skin as inferior.
I used to mess with a Dominican woman who’s father was super racist. Mind you, I’m a dark skinned black man and her father was darker than me. When he saw me he automatically thought I was Haitian and was very standoffish towards me. Once he found out I was Nigerian, he opened up but it was over..I didn’t even want to give her family the time of day smh
And he even said 'sexually attracted'. It's something that you prefer. It doesn't mean you disrespect or hate another race just because you don't necessarily find them to be sexy. I don't find men sexually attractive, but it doesn't mean I necessarily hate them.
@Hector Silva regardless of what Derek did and to whatever extent his "Asian wife" knew about him, that still doesn't mean all white men with Asian woman in their lives are inherently racist. Your logic is deeply flawed. I suggest that you do some deep self introspection into why you would display such illogical bs online.
10:00 this is my favorite piece of knowledge, slavery wasn’t REALLY out of hatred for black people, but the rich whites knew that the poor whites and black people could band together and oust them so they perpetuated the belief to these poor whites that even they are better than black people in order to separate them, thus starting ‘American racism’. They turned a class thing into a race thing in the pursuit of money and any white person from the hood will tell you, they’re literally just like us; only difference is they can’t say the N word.
4:35 Funny enough, the very first time I've experienced racism(in a more apparent form) was from Hispanic people. I was in HS and got with a Honduran girl, mom found out I was black and just flipped the switch. Girl couldn't hang out with me, if the bus didn't pick us up from the block, she'd pick up all both her kids from the stop then eye me down before leaving to bring them to school, talked mad stuff about me being a thug and all that. See this profile pic? I was not a thug back in HS, I was wearing Kiss hoodies and reading manga. But that stuff stuck with me, felt bad that none of my Hispanic friends at the time called that out. P.S. Those same people(Old High Schoolmates) are the ones these days posting BLM on their social media.
Yeah, I live in Spain and when I got here for the first time it was weird seeing a rum named negrita, with a black woman on the bottle. Its a bit offensive but who cares.
@Que_Rico Facts! I had some Spaniards who refused to speak Spanish to me because of the way I spoke spanish. I was corrected in a restaurant because we had different names for the same item the server then rolled her eyes refused to speak spanish with me any further. It was ridiculous.
Alex Delgado Yeah it’s just a language but Spain as a whole is very racist. I’ve had black people tell me not to go on holiday there, which is a shame. The same for Italy and Australia. It’s just safer that way, there’s still plenty of other countries
@@kosiqueensly4506 Well don't go by other people's opinions people told me Germany is awful, the people there are so shitty! So when I took a trip there they were really kind, they explained to me that they don't like being treated as part of the "attraction" for tourists and rather be treated like people so idk try it for yourself if you don't like it fine. Just don't formulate an opinion on someone's whole ethnicity/country by a he's said/she's said basis.
In nursing school we went over bigotry in medicine. I remember specifically going over stereotype that black women have a higher pain threshold so doctors will disregard their concerns more often than any other race. Even during child birth doctors have refused giving certain medicine or under medicated black women. Not sure how other schools teach but glad my school decided to add all that information to the curriculum.
Celeste Ivory honestly I’m not 100% sure BUT the few myths I heard some doctors believe is that black ppl have thicker skin, less sensitive nerve endings, or black ppls blood coagulates more quickly. There’s article after article you can even google on this nonsense. But there’s a lot of bias in medicine towards black ppl and I just remembered covering a bit of it in nursing school.
Celeste Ivory also a survey was conducted as recent as 2016 that trainees and new doctors still believe alot of these stereotypes. It’s pretty disturbing :(
Thanks, I'll definitely give it a read. I remember my sisters friend being nervous about giving birth and telling me why. I found it a little hard to believe at first. But it's sad it's more common than it should.
Thes kids are so pampered and wimpy. They have never had a hard day in their life. No matter your race you need hard times to become who you are in my opinion. Makes you work hard for something.
"They have never had a hard day in their life" but you literally do not know that. Younger people are more vocal about the bad shit in the world that needs to change. There is a luxury involved in brushing major issues off as "that's just how the world works"
These kids are beta asf I know 15 year olds back in my generation that would have gave them a wedgie and a swirly just for being such a little bitch 🤣🤣🤣 ✌️🇺🇲
I work in construction and get paid $45 an hour and I'm only 25 years old I got my own house and my own car cuz I actually busted my ass and freaking have a family to feed
What about my stuff out He's black and has four pensions has a house that's fully paid off and three cars what about him he busted his ass to get where he's at
I can’t imagine going to a whole different country and never learning the basics of the main language. (I totally agree with the private convo speak what ever language you want) But here in America the main language is English to have it easier traveling here or living here learning English is a must. I took a year of classes to learn Japanese when i moved to japan my dad forced me to watched hours of Japanese language learning. I am currently trying to learn Russian so i could visit Russia, as well as Italian, and Latin just for fun.
Yep. The inability to see irony and lack of self-awareness is the peanut butter and jelly of perpetually broken shit. -a nobel laureate (probably...while shitfaced).
@Que_Rico my sister loves to follow foreign accounts, mainly because there's a lot of shit she can learn and show me about food, she found a woman, that married a male Korean, she's happy and she decided to live with him in kr. She got called a traitor to the race and to the neighborhood, because she left it. Wanna know the BIG ASS PROBLEM, that woman is black..............
@Que_Rico you can't expect people to feel sympathy for you for racism against you and then when someone else says people are racist against them you say "cry me a river". That's how you get people ignoring your problems as well
How can we be not racist White lady: try to push back against racism in your family latino/hispanic : stop people saying the n word that sounds like a drink Black guy: I can't be racist so I'm not going to answer your question and just say how people were racist to me
Honestly the Negrito thing I relate to, in Latin culture there is a lot of use of words to describe a group of people. However when you were talking about it as a drink I had to laugh so hard. Especially as there is this Chilean chocolate snack called negrita. But the commercials were pretty hilarious, I'm sad I can't find a good one.
When the girl said people called her the whitest black person they've meet I felt that. That's what people refer to me in highschool mostly black and hispanic students.
7:57 bruh that's so true tho. I remember watching this one episode of Grey's anatomy, the episode was based on a true story and let me tell you, it was fucking soul-crushing. This black woman was giving birth to her second child and they had to convert to a c-section. The baby was delivered via c-section and was all good. Then once the mom got back to the room, she was feeling so sick so her husband kept calling for the doctor to check on her, the doctors and the nurses kept brushing her off, saying it was just "pain from her surgery", without ACTUALLY checking. This went on for quite a while, her husband finally FLIPPED his shit since they were dicking him around and his wife started like seizing. Once the doctors and nurses finally pulled their heads out of their asses, they rushed the mom away without her husband knowing anything or being able to say goodbye. They found that an artery was nicked during the c-section. She had been bleeding out into her stomach the entire time. She died minutes later. Her husband left the hospital with a brand new baby, a toddler at home and no wife. The man that it is based on in real life has now started a foundation and all that to stop racism in medicine. 😭
my wife went throught that with her parents. they forbade her from dating black men. She has an indian name that sounds african. when we got engaged my grandma thought she was black and was not happy about it. it was all a mess
@@sokoyaadedolapo5321 Caste & race are two completely different things. The only comparison I can think of is class but it dictates & affects all aspects of your life & is even more limiting.
@@NotAnotherKuromi I know but in this case it covers both, I know of a lady whose aunt married a German she told her parents disowned her because of that
*"EUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH SCUZEZ?? T'EST AU QUEBEC ICITTE!!! C'TEN FRANCAIS!!"* omggggggg that part killed me. The memories of Francophone schools telling you to stop speaking English in a French-speaking school.
"Issue" i live in jacksonvill almost all black people and the most racist i have seen people being were from black people 😑 honestly this video is not at all profound and also got a lot of victim hood shit going on
"I understand why it is there and what they mean by amplifying and yes at some point they mean shutting up." And that is why any support for it is self-destructive. I agree with what Preach said afterwards. If you expect people to just shut up and nod yes, expect the most horrible ideas to prevail.
Negro is literally just the word “Black” it isn’t racist. bBut in the hispanic community the racial bad word would be “Mayates” thats the n word for spanish. Not Negritos. That’s literally just saying a “black guy”
Here's a question for something I've been running into from the writing community: How would you respond to people who say that you have to identify the skin color of everyone in a story? They say that BIPOC need to see themselves on the pages in order to feel represented. My stance is that I don't feel it necessary to include skin color at all, or if I do it needs to serve a purpose to the story. If it's part of your story, have at it, but why force me to?
I think that i would say that I understand the concern but if I firmly establish the race of a character on the page I now have the unenviable responsibility of doing a fuckton of research to make sure i don't piss off anyone with the portrayal and I now have to fear the repercussions of even the tiniest of screw ups. Its not fun to write every single character like that and the story is gonna suffer because i'm constantly going to have to sidetrack myself from the story i'm trying to tell to satisfy representation for every ethnicity i'm using. If I establish race to serve the story it makes the story that much better and makes it a better book, movie or what have you. I understand the desire for everyone to be represented but its just not realistic to do that for 50 characters in a novel or 10 in a movie etc.
I've never been called specific racial slurs like "Your skin looks like poop" or anything. Those are very specific. I mean, I remember a kid defending himself against his middle eastern bully Jatinder or something like that by calling him chicken tender. I'm still proud of that kid xD As for me, I look too scary to be teased I guess.
6:01 Actually here in Chile we have a chocolate candy named "Negrita" and there is a whole debate wheter or not the company should rename it or get it out of the market because of racism. I found itfunny because in Chile there is not such thing as white or black people, we are all mestizos
I've been saying this for a while. Discrimination typically has a hirarchy to a degree. If race is equal it's typically religion or social economic. Race is typically easiest if you can get away with it. Some comments I attribute to racial/stereotype prejudice vs outright rascism at times as well.
Mid 90's, as a white boy or "honkey" as many of my black friends called me (with love, no hate), I was VERY active, full-time, in volunteering, with a heavy amount of it helping communities in South Central LA, to the extent of being publicly acknowledged by Hon Marcine Shaw, gifted with a really cool Dashiki, etc. I delivered tons of diapers, TP, food staples, raised money, you name it. 2021, I have zero voice, can't talk, am "immobilized" on the subject effectively, because the only race discussion permitted is extremist, and predicated mostly on division and getting races to hate each other. BLM has done more to set back race relations than any group over the last fifty years, far as I can see.
Just as a curiosity, in Latin America, we have a grammar thing called "diminutivos" it's a way of making almost any word sound cuter, I believe that for the majority of Spanish speakers we say "Negritos" to refer to black people as it sounds less aggressive than saying "Negros". Not that the word Negros is offensive or anything like that but it's a way to refer to black people in a endearing way. I think the goal of this is to make someone feel accepted and comfortable in a country that's far from their culture and home. Not sure if I expressed it in a good way but that's how I believe the majority of people feel when using that word. Obviously, if you know someone's name you call them by their name not "Negrito". I really enjoy your videos guys ❤
You can't 'dismantle' any attitude, as it is never your right to take away the responsibility of another human. The best that you can do, as any other human, is to strive from within yourself to be more tolerant and open to any person regardless of race/gender/status etc and treat others equally. The moment you start taking matters in your own hands for the 'betterment' of other people, that's when you go authoritarian and turn into a dictator.
Never been a fan of this Cartesian Libertarian approach. As if you live in a bubble where your actions don’t affect others but yourself which is false. Because this approach is great for your own peace of mind but doesn’t change anything for the greater societal attitudes of a particular race and even your particular society’s justice or political system. Is the new societal culture wave of not being tolerant of attacks based on race in society really that authoritarian? Of course my view is more on a macro scale while Aba and Preach are talking micro.
@@ska187 I never said that your actions don't affect others. By being more open and tolerant you accept others and welcome them (as long as they do the same of course). Your suggestion of 'a wave not being tolerant to attacks based on race' is not necessary when 'everyone' (I say 'everyone' but I don't mean literally everyone, because that's impossible) in your society is open and tolerant to/of others. And there's a huge potential of danger when you create waves that you sic against a particular group, because that wave can go wrong quickly if your wave decides to implement 'reforms' in order to accommodate new ideas on a macro scale. My approach to political/societal issues is almost always focused on the individual, because I believe that so long an individual is upholding the status quo (a.k.a. live and let live) then the society will flourish. Of course, I'm aware that this isn't always the case, but most western societies have enough evidence that this system is a successful one. I'm an Assyrian from the Middle East who migrated to the EU 3 decades ago, and I can guarantee you that the European focus on individuality helped shape my personality a lot more than my fatherland. In fact, I wish my fatherland was more individualistic but that's beside the point.
Zen I appreciate your take on the topic at hand. Of course, the fear of going too far for an ideal is what conservatism is all about (well it used to but that’s besides the point). However, I do have some rebuttals. You say that the western societies flourished therefore individualism is a better system. However it is that very atomization that allows for the nation state to keep control because why should an individual give a damn about what happens to another if they got their “bag” so to speak? Also, those same western nations that are all about individualism were the same nations who were cool with colonizing others to extract resources for their state then overthrowing that respective states elected leader to put in their own to keep extracting. Since you are from Assyria which is north Iraq I think, your country had its own run ins with coups set up by foreign nations which leds to turmoil for people so you have to leave. Tbh, I wouldn’t consider the nations who kill off my country’s leaders for their own economic gains as “successful”.
@@ska187 And I appreciate your takes as well, I'm a proponent of civil debates with other people when possible and I always welcome differing viewpoints :). As to your first point, being an individual doesn't translate to not give a damn about others when your own life is in order. The focus of individualism is to make you/me/anyone a better person, in every regard possible (financial status, morality, ethics etc). The way I understand 'better' is to always uphold the status quo, meaning that I always focus on developing myself first (cleaning my room first) instead of dictating how others should behave or develop themselves. This makes me a fully self-sufficient 'unit' so to speak, having no need of the state and becoming completely independent of it. This doesn't mean that I don't care about my fellow human, I help anyone in need so that they can become as self-reliant as I'm. In essence, I don't help them with 'charity', I help them take care of themselves on their volition without the need of the state or someone else. To your second point about western nations. I agree completely that these nations have caused massive misery in their past/history, but you can't only focus on the past my friend. You study the past to learn from it so that you don't repeat it, but eventually you move on to the present/future. You mentioned the bad things that western nations committed, but you forgot the good things: abolishing slavery, the enlightenment, the countless technological advancements, philosophical achievements (Greeks, Romans and also Europeans later on), the concept of individual freedom and I could go on and on. These things haven't even been invented in some continents, *yet* . As for my people, Assyrians have never really considered themselves Iraqi, because after the fall of Assyria we became a diaspora that sought refuge wherever it went without a home. The reason why the Middle East is still fucked up, isn't only because of western intervention but also massively because the people there gave up on their individuality and self-governance a long time ago. That, and many tyrants ruled (and still rule) the Middle East without any consideration for the advancement of their people. To give you an example: I had to leave Iraq with my family because the majority (Sunni Moslims) oppressed my minority people heavily, which drove many Assyrians in the last century to emigrate to the western world. The rulers did nothing to help us co-exist, but instead many of them encouraged oppressing minorities and still do to this day. Sorry for the long message, and again feel free to respond :)
I remember finding them around the 150 - 200K mark back in February before everything in the world turned into shit..Nutty shit how much they've grown their following in such a relative short period of (chaotic) time.
How to not be racist: Don't act like white people don't experience it too. It goes all ways. It's such an American thing to say, that racism only effects people who are a minority in America! As a German white guy in Japan I've encountered racism. And I guess that happens to a lot of people who live in non-white countries. The mindset of "America is the world" is so toxic. Whenever I hear statements like "white people don't have culture" I wonder if those people know about the entire continent of Europe... I can't count how many times I've been called a Nazi online just because I'm German, despite my family fleeing from them and getting hurt by them.
I haven't watched until the end yet, but the "negritos" thing just means "black" and is not inherently racist. We also use, blanquito(a), chinito(a), indiesito(a)...etc... not racist.
Negrito(a) isnt just used to describe people of African descent, but also people who have black hair, dark eyes and brown skin (which many Indigneous Latinos have). My family calls my little sister “chele” because of her pale, pink skin and lighter hair. It’s mostly used as a nickname or a word of admiration, but it can be offensive depending on the context the word is used in.
@@LM-ix7pk Correct, since "negro" is the word for black as well, "negrito" gets used when describing color, particularly on something cute. At the end of the day it is just a generic use word. The guy in the video didn't seem to know that.
@@KaeBae_ When my wife contracted Breast Cancer she asked if I'd be bothered if she had a mastectomy. I told her I didn't marry her for her breasts. A lot of guys have a problem with that.
There is no "how not be a racist". Everyone needs to mind their business and keep their opinions and thoughts to themselves. Everyone has ideas. There are good one's, which means there will be bad ones. You only strengthen ideas the more attention you grant it. How's the saying go... Bad publicity is still publicity, nonetheless? Racism involves a "superiority/inferiority" dichotomy, which means, it is taught.
At 4:50 personally my experience with that, as Mexican it’s definitely true. But what I will say, is that reality honestly changes through generations. I was actually having a conversation, with some Mexican friends. This one time and we talking about how, it was pretty interesting. How much the relationship between, black people and Hispanics changes. Depending on age, because if we are talking us we are all around 19-18, most of our friends are black and Hispanic. And some of my female friends are with men who are black, and are happy and have started a family and settled down, but if you were take us and place our group years back. We would be a huge exception, so in a way I’m glad that, we can acknowledge that moving forward. And move past these dumb ways of going about our lives, cause it’s not right.
