As a latino, may i ask why?
I'm Afro-Latino and the reason why racism against whites doesn't exist goes directly back to our history as latinos. Racism was actually invented around the time that Europe first encountered Caribbean peoples. There's a current apologist myth about Columbus, and other prominent white figures from the 15th and 16th centuries, that the brutal violence committed against indigenous peoples and black slaves occurred in part because Europeans at the time 'didn't know any better'.
This is a complete lie. in fact, when reports of the savage brutality that Columbus and others were inflicting on the native population reached Europe, there was moral outrage from both the clergy and the nobility. This created a dilemma because the brutal violence being committed was a direct result of Europeans pillaging the Americas for gold.
Ultimately, conquistadors, the nobility, the clergy, and the monarchy had to come up with a moral justification that would excuse their actions so they could continue to enrich themselves. This is where racism comes in.
Racism, contrary to modern liberal beliefs, is not an ideology of hatred.
Racism is a moral-philosophical worldview. Racism, first articulated by conquistadors and white slave traders, posits that the darker skinned people of the world - in large part because they were ignorant of Jesus Christ - were not the same class of human as the light -skinned peoples of Europe. These dark-skinned peoples, classified as red, black, and yellow, were of a lower order. This meant that as christians, Europeans had a duty to 'educate' and 'civilize' these 'savage' people. It also meant that, like animals, these inferior people could and should be used for the benefit of European society as a whole. To do so was simply helping these savages reach their full potential - because otherwise the savage would be content to lounge, accomplish nothing, and wallow in their ignorance of Christ until they were condemned to eternal damnation.
We can see from this historical perspective two things. The first is that the early proponents of racism are making a moral argument. They are trying to argue that treating dark-skinned people differently is the
morally correct thing to do for both Europeans and non-whites. Christianity, and the concept of saving souls, was crucial to the early formation of racist theory.
The second point is that
racism is about the superiority of whites over non-whites. Racism argues that slavery and imperialism are just because God has given white Christians dominion over the earth and its lesser creatures, be they animals or so-called savages. How can such an ideology be turned against the very people it was meant to uplift? How can you use white supremacy against a white person?
To make it absolutely clear, racism is not the hatred of someone else for the color of their skin. This is a revision put forth by conservatives in the 1970's and 1980's once open advocacy of racist ideology was deemed inappropriate in polite society. This revision was then adopted by centrist liberals because it sounds egalitarian, and because centrist liberals are just as uncomfortable talking about race honestly as any other white person.
So no, you can't be racist against a white person. Ever. You can't because racism is an ideology built around the superiority of whites and the inferiority of non-whites.
This person is clearly mean spirited and prejudiced against whites. But they're not racist because racism against white people isn't a thing.
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Anti-semitism isn't racism just like sexism or transphobia are not racism. It's a distinct form of bigotry that stands on its own. I never said black people couldn't be mean or discriminatory. Also, there are millions of black jews and jews of other races. Acting as though anti-semitism is a species of anti-white racism erases those people.
