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Originally Posted by unit
its not even just that. white people are not offended by being called crackers or whiteys. they will say call me whatever you want, i dont care it doesnt bother me so i dont see why it bothers you to call you a chink or nigger. this is an example of white privilege.
i grew up like a lot of you guys experiencing racism as a child especially. when i moved from toronto to vancouver (surrey), my class had zero asians and even my whole school had like maybe 3. i had a really hard time fitting into my class, i was literally treated like shit and rejected by all my classmates for that first year because i was different. i noticed a change by the next year when they were more used to me and started treating me normally, but basically i had to prove myself to them while none of them had to prove anything to anyone their entire lives up till that point. so yeah it does bother me when people say racist shit to me, because i had to deal with that shit as a kid, not understanding why i was hated.
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-depends on the kind of racial slurs that a person says to that particular white person.
My American cousins tell me stories of their white co-workers experiencing some forms of racism. One of her co-workers was born in Arkansas.
-cousin's co-worker kept hearing jokes of him being a white "trailer trash Hillbilly". These were jokes that Hispanic customers hurled at that employee of a property management company in Arizona.
That white employee was really offended by those words. Why was he upset? Well, that white employee was born in the U.S. South. -treated with offensive words from Hispanic customers who assumed that he grew up in a trailer park. One Hispanic customer even asked that white employee if he made his own moonshine at home.
White privilege does not happen in that situation for that white employee. People of a different background made assumptions about that person and make insulting jokes at him to attack his background as a U.S. southern white person. Believe me, my cousin told me that guy was so pissed haha.