A common misconception that happens with me is that people don't think that white people can experience racism...... IN a primarily white community too.....
ok I am going to take this in good faith and assume that 1) you are young and 2) you are a fully white American and have grown up with a white American upbringing
and I say this because this is a very ignorant thing to send to me personally
yes, white people can absolutely face discrimination, even among white spaces. and I know it must suck
however that being said, the kind of discrimination that white people experience and poc (ESPECIALLY bipoc) people experience are completely different. I don't like to play "Oppression Olympics" so let me frame it in a different way...
it has the same energy as hetero people brining up how they get "hate" for being straight to a group of queer people. or kind of like the wealthy person complaining they're having to pay more taxes to someone living paycheck-to-paycheck.
it's a very tone deaf thing to tell me, a poc who has expressed pain and anger about racism towards me, that white people face racial discrimination too.
white people will ALWAYS have more benefits by default than someone of a different race in The States. this country is literally governed in their favor. people of color literally have to fight for our right to simply EXIST here
I am Vietnamese American. my parents are refugees from the Vietnam war. and the kinds of racial discrimination that my family and I have faced and continue to face on a daily basis cuts so deep into my life. do you know the kind of pain I feel knowing that my family had to watch their homes get destroyed and their loved ones die to the hands of Americans? and then have to ask those same Americans to save them from being killed? my parents had to give up their culture and history in order to literally survive. and by extension, I am cut off from my own culture and history. and I can't even begin to explain how much agony and pain that has brought my life.
growing up, I had white people literally convince me my parents didn't love me because of how our cultures express love differently. I have been harassed and LITERALLY chased down by people who lust over me solely for my race. I have had to physically hide from these people. I had an ex-white friend and their white boyfriend throw ice cubes at me in a bar while they made fun of me for not being able to calculate the tip for a check because I'm Asian which apparently makes me a human calculator. and this isn't even a fraction of the pain I've experienced solely because of my race.
I wake up every day in fear knowing that at any moment ICE can tear my family apart. my parents have lived here for over 30 years legally with all of their papers, but this government is corrupt. Vietnam is their birthplace, but it's been so long and so much has changed it can barely be considered their home. I am scared for them and they are some of my only family. and that's me assuming they will be deported instead of killed
I know I am not truly welcomed here by this country. I am only accepted if I keep quiet about my suffering, and comply to what White Americans want to hear. and even then, I still get hurt.
so yeah
I'm sure white people experience discrimination, but don't ever, EVER tell me that as if you experience that anywhere close to the kinds of pain that my poc friends and I go through
