I was in r/vent on reddit and I saw a post written by a girl who hates being black. I've seen loads of the "I hate being *insert any minority*" posts but this one was on another level. I clicked into the girls profile and good God, every single post was her just venting about how much she hates being black. The girl had even made her own subreddit "r/transracebtw". It's just a whole community of extremely insecure black people. Some of their posts include twitter posts from accounts like Radio Genoa or however you spell it and Blacks taking L's attempting to prove that all white people hate black people. A lot of these posts are beyond insane.
I PM'd this girl and asked her if she has any friends, as expected she said no. She lives in Europe and she bleaches. Her parents bleach too and apparently don't let her be friends with other black people because they are too "ghetto".
Now the thing about all of this is that a certain level of low self-esteem and insecurity in the average black person living in a PWA (Predominately White Area) is always expected. Even I myself have posted a thread about how much it can suck being a black girl living in a PWA. But... using far right echo chambers like twitter as a reflection of the real world is beyond insane.
Problem with all of these people is that they don't have a diverse group of friends never mind friends in general. As someone who's one of three black people in a year group of 260, I can say with confidence that not all white people suck. There is a good few of them that do suck but not all of them. Living on the internet as a black person, especially in recent times is going to kill your confidence especially when you take everything you see seriously. If I took everything I saw online seriously I wouldn't be on a forum like this. If I had a euro for the amount of times I've been called a "sheboon" on forums like this one I'd be a rich woman, but yet I don't care, because right now, I'm just looking at a bunch of LED's on a rectangle that I can shut off at anytime and hang out with my friends who aren't asshole racists and are normal people who exist beyond the hellscape that is the internet.
Living in the real world is so important, having friends is so important, especially a diverse group of them. You begin to view people as individuals with real lives rather than them as part of a monolithic hivemind. I've met good white people and I've met bad white people, I've met bad black people and I've met good black people and so on and so on. The internet makes people forget that we are all different people with different thoughts, different opinions, different lifestyles. The internet is just a warped magnified perception of the real world. I truly feel bad for people who only exist on the internet.
I was recently lurking on incels.is. You know, the place where racism, sexism and all kinds of -isms and -phobias are at their peak. I saw a thread asking users if they have ever had a black friend and guess what, no, a lot of them said they had never even interacted with black person, a couple saying that they have interacted with black people but they were "normal". I just find it so crazy that you can have such strong opinions on people you've never even interacted with due to the graces of the internet. What a shame, what a shame.
This is life in the 21st century...
I PM'd this girl and asked her if she has any friends, as expected she said no. She lives in Europe and she bleaches. Her parents bleach too and apparently don't let her be friends with other black people because they are too "ghetto".
Now the thing about all of this is that a certain level of low self-esteem and insecurity in the average black person living in a PWA (Predominately White Area) is always expected. Even I myself have posted a thread about how much it can suck being a black girl living in a PWA. But... using far right echo chambers like twitter as a reflection of the real world is beyond insane.
Problem with all of these people is that they don't have a diverse group of friends never mind friends in general. As someone who's one of three black people in a year group of 260, I can say with confidence that not all white people suck. There is a good few of them that do suck but not all of them. Living on the internet as a black person, especially in recent times is going to kill your confidence especially when you take everything you see seriously. If I took everything I saw online seriously I wouldn't be on a forum like this. If I had a euro for the amount of times I've been called a "sheboon" on forums like this one I'd be a rich woman, but yet I don't care, because right now, I'm just looking at a bunch of LED's on a rectangle that I can shut off at anytime and hang out with my friends who aren't asshole racists and are normal people who exist beyond the hellscape that is the internet.
Living in the real world is so important, having friends is so important, especially a diverse group of them. You begin to view people as individuals with real lives rather than them as part of a monolithic hivemind. I've met good white people and I've met bad white people, I've met bad black people and I've met good black people and so on and so on. The internet makes people forget that we are all different people with different thoughts, different opinions, different lifestyles. The internet is just a warped magnified perception of the real world. I truly feel bad for people who only exist on the internet.
I was recently lurking on incels.is. You know, the place where racism, sexism and all kinds of -isms and -phobias are at their peak. I saw a thread asking users if they have ever had a black friend and guess what, no, a lot of them said they had never even interacted with black person, a couple saying that they have interacted with black people but they were "normal". I just find it so crazy that you can have such strong opinions on people you've never even interacted with due to the graces of the internet. What a shame, what a shame.
This is life in the 21st century...
and also location, most of the racism i say is as a joke idk
