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    9 days ago

    It is easy to criticize the one country that has the most different nationalities in it for its history with racism. However, can you name another country that has as large a share of minorities and does NOT have a history of racism?

    Right off the bat all of Europe is already disqualified. The west dabbled in its’ own colonialism and the east under Soviet rule got so racist, the n-word is the standard way to refer to black people among people over 40. Remember that Yandex source code leak where the master-slave relationship (already a racist terminology) had “n***er” instead of slave? In many Asian countries, black people are also seen as subhuman. Scandinavia pretends to be super tolerant, but it’s superficial. Eastern Europeans are seen as lower class.

    People don’t see that the entire world is racist as fuck. It’s so easy to blame a single country and act like it’s the only source of racism in the world. It might just be the most open about it, but there’s still quiet discrimination everywhere.

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      9 days ago

      This is all just projecting the US’s racist settler-colonial history on others. Only a tiny minority of nations were founded in this same way, based on indigenous genocide and eviction (Israel, Australia, Canada are a few others).

      Most US states didn’t even end miscegenation laws until the 1960s. It’s the only country on earth that still has slavery in fact and in law, enshrined in the 13th amendment.

      The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3

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        I asked for a single country that was not racist in the 20th century, but had comparable diversity. You have not provided one yet.

        The for-profit prison system is fucked for sure and no other country has fucked up this bad.

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          Pretty much every African country, most of se asia, most of south america, probably all but maybe 10 countries.

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            Asia is laughably racist. Africans literally genocide eachother without even having different skin colors. As soon as you add different people, tensions arise. It is natural and has been for all of human history, only recently have we begun to rise above it.

            South Americans also literally have the term “gringo” for foreigners. Plus with how large catholicism is in South America, I doubt LGBT people are going to feel very comfortable either. Uruguay of course is a weird exception here.

            You just either seem to think racism is only racism if it’s white prolly being racist against black people, or you don’t realize how much racism is really out there. Just because people don’t outright say they hate (insert race or nationality here) doesn’t mean they’re not racist.