As a white dude, I’d like to know when this shit gets easier?!?
Should have just inherited some money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
be black first
I need to watch the wishmaster series. Of all the stuff with the concept of evil genies that twist the meaning of wishes into anything BUT the intention of the wisher, it would be that. Or so I heard.
Hope they made him suburban rich too
The race thing is just a diversion from the fact that financial prosperity is the true great division that separates us. But just keep believing that white people have it easier just because they’re white, because that’s much better for the oligarchs.
I think you need to look at prison sentencing disparities if you don’t think white people have it easier than black people.
Everybody is ridiculous. I’m not saying people aren’t racist, but there’s no way to act on that fact. Go ahead and try lol. Now if you had money, it wouldn’t matter because you could afford a good lawyer to keep you out of trouble. Not everybody can be rich, but at least they can act on it. Good luck “acting on racism” because everybody already knows and nobody is going to change their mind if they’re already racist.
Do whatever you want!
Racism itself is promoted and maintained by the ruling class because white supremacy serves to undermine class consciousness. The same playbook is uses for other forms of marginalization, but race is the most strongly maintained in the United States due to chattel slavery and the ruling class’ investment in it.
What this means is that while class is the major material dividing line that societal forces follow, racism is also a potent force. Just because it gets the oxygen it needs to survive from the continued class war does not mean that racism itself does not exist and make the lives of black people, brown people, etc harder. And white people do have it easier just because they’re white. So if you say otherwise, those who know better will not listen to you.
So, instead of going the route that dismisses the impact of racism, instead acknowledge that class and race oppressions are intertwined and that the former drives the latter, so we need to end capitalism in order to undo marginalization. And to do so in solidarity means you also need to take an anti-racist line and stand in solidarity with marginalized people.
We can’t deny systematic racism. It’s totally baked in.
To be fair black people have been forcibly kept in lower class by white people
easy is relative. all depends on how you see the world. while there is quantitative evidence for genetics to play a part in it, ease can be changed just as much by the person as by the environment.
That man is going to get an extremely brutal lesson in the difference between absolute and relative values.
In true genie fashion, the only change in their life is that now, a single occasion where a racist person decided not to hold a door open for them, changes so that they do.
Genies are all about malicious compliance.
Lol. I don’t know how you managed to have the absolute worst take to this stupid comic, but congratulations.
“The only racism Black people experience is one person not holding a door.” LMFAO
It’s not a “take”, goofball, it’s a joke. Get over yourself.
Nah. He will be blamed for everything that’s happening in the world. White guilt is real.
And will also inherit white fragility, it seems.
Genie: congratulations you are now a health insurance CEO! You will not know suffering for the rest of your days
“Black, white, you’ll still not experience what it’s like to be blue. Or have your deed of slavery cursed into a literal lamp.”
And the twist is that he now is a Traveller in Ireland
wouldve been more effective to just make him rich
Say what you will, but the genie never misses ab day.
He was later rejected by his family and ended up homeless and struggling.
Haha, take that, white people!! You’ve got it so easy, apparantly!
Easier, not easy.
Easier
Although I’d love to see more class-conscious memes and activism.
Yes, it’s harder to be black/hispanic. Yes, it’s harder to be a woman. Yes, it’s harder to be LGBT, especially T. But what really sucks so hard and hits almost all of us (and minorities often get it even harder!) is the oppression of the working class.
Our most unscrupulous and evil oppressors don’t lose all that much from retranslating slogans about equality between people of all genders, races, sexual orientations etc.; in fact, they will play chameleon and support any popular rhetoric - except the one that can actually make a giant change, but at their expense - the rhetoric of a class war. Combine this with corporate power and reach, and you’ll see how we got to addressing literally anything but not the elephant in the room.
Worker-led societies generally promote equal access to jobs, education and services to people of all ethnicities, genders and other traits, bolster a culture of global friendship and cooperation, and promote sustainable development that puts people - all people - first.
It’s in our common interest to put class war as our very first priority - for the greater good of us all.
Yes, it’s harder to be a woman.
Depends heavily on context. For example, for virtually anything involving the criminal justice system it’s easier to be a woman. In some careers it’s easier to be a woman (for example, anything to do with children). I could come up with more examples if you want.
Sure, I meant overall and in a wide sense. There is plenty of instances where being a man is harder, there are places where being white could lead to discrimination against you, etc. etc.
But that is beyond my point.
Where is it harder to be hispanic or black? In Hispanola or Africa? Life isn’t equally oppressive across the entire world
Oh, me, me! I’m based in the US, but here are a few 🤗
- It’s harder for us to get loans for businesses. Most financial services are either harder or more expensive (Ex: You live in the hood and want to start a business, the area you’re in is “coded” a certain way, and you get higher loan rates because they assume you to be more risky by default)
- A lot of POC are behind in generational wealth/security because they were barred from communities and businesses that could have been passed down
- We are paid less
- Neighborhoods with high POC population usually get less funding
- Less political power because of how the counties were purposely broken up, so our voices aren’t heard as loudly
- Racial profiling
- We are more likely to get arrested, and serve harsher sentences
- Until recently (and still in some places), natural kinky hair had to be “fixed.”
- Colorism
- People with heavy accents (not limited to Hispanics of course) can have a harder time at jobs, especially if they’re phone base as people can be mad disrespectful
- In our current political environment, Latin Americans are the target of a lot of vitriol, illegal or not
- I can’t speak for Latin Americans, but when traveling, Black people have to worry about different things like: Are they racist? If so, how much? Will they let me in businesses? If I’m going for work, will they let me? If I’m not rich, will I still be treated well? We can’t just go back packing, because many countries will not be hospitable, either due to race, skin color, or both
- Being spoken too in slang because they assume that’s how you talk
- For hobbies, cosplay. POC are routinely dragged for not being the right color or what have you
- For kids, they are seen as older and more dangerous than other non-POC their age and therefore are treated harsher
- “Don’t send no Mexicans to my house” - Actual customer
- Even if you get a job, you may be taken off a job because of your skin (there are plenty of stories of people who refuse POC doctors, nurses, etc. I personally was not able to teach a child when abroad because of my skin color, even though I was the only one with a degree).
- Having your name, apperence, hair style mocked, until it’s been absorbed by white culture and becomes “cool.”
- Having your accolades covered up or ignored (A modern example would be that Renegade dance. The creator was a black girl, but a white girl took off with it. They even had her teaching a dance she didn’t create)
- If a show or movie has a POC in it, you have to brace yourself for cries of “wokeness,” even before the movie is out
- Being assumed as a diversity hire, regardless of your cardentials
- Something a bit more basic, but make up, hair products, etc. A lot of viral trends are shown on pale skin only, and some popular products don’t make darker colors at all, or very few shades. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I could find my regular hair products outside of a beauty supply shop.
- POC women and girls are hyper sexualized and are often see as the cause for physical and sexual abuse instead of the victim
- “You speak so well.”
- “Are you the first person in your family to finish highschool/college?”
- Being the only black kid on the class when they start the slavery lessons.
- “Don’t you speak English!?”
- For black women, we are routinely mocked not just outside our race, but inside. Many black men don’t fuck with black women because they drank the kool-aid
- Having to regulate your feelings because you don’t want to be the “angry” black person
- “Oh, I didn’t meant you. You’re one of the good ones.”
Of course, these have different levels of severity, some of these are not just applicable to POC, but this was a sampler of you will. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the list! I’d be a dirty liar if I said none of the points applied to Canada, as I’ve experienced 3 of those personally. But not the entire list. Seems to me that the US is not a very good place to be non-Aryan. So why not move somewhere cooler?
non-Aryan
I’d say it’s not a good place to be Aryan at all.
And maybe you shouldn’t misuse the same words the Nazis intentionally misused in the future.
It was super clear what the other commenter meant, and you’re just looking for conflict and thought policing everywhere I met you. Don’t.
The reports of my psychic powers have been greatly exaggerated.
I’d say the term has since been appropriated, the same way that all facial tissues are mostly referred to as kleenex. If the proper Aryans wanted exclusive right to the name, they should have made more use of it
Yeah, stupid ethnic group just allowing a genocidal European nation on another continent co-opt their identity like that!
Just like those other people from India just allowing Europeans to call the people indigenous to the Americas by that name too.
Clearly if they were superior, like
white peopletrue Aryans, they would have protected the name by international trademark.
Such a strawman, lol. The comic clearly says ‘eas_ier_’
Im just saying the blue man needs to check his prejudices
It’s not prejudiced, though.
inb4 but I’m white and had a hard life - it could’ve been even harder.
Depends on where you was born, like maybe life is easier for blue people wherever the blue man was from
Well as long as racism exists and is prevalent, we got it “not as hard”.
The Monkey-Paw Twist on this comes later when he goes to pee.
What do you mean?
