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Racism. Blaming the Victim and the Idea of Harmony

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Racism.  Blaming the Victim and Chinese-style 'Harmony' Calling out racism is an effort to get rid of it.  To allege that a person who calls it out as 'inciting hatred or ill will between races' first requires one to prove racism doesn't exist.  If not, such an allegation is an effort to perpetuate racism or turn a blind eye to it. So were all those women who were calling for equality with men 'trying to incite hatred between genders or ill will between genders'?  Was the black civil rights movement in the US an organisation designed to 'incite hatred against white people'?  What nonsense.   COMPLAIN so much for what?! This 'blaming the victime' approach comes from the age-old chinese perspective that the people should not question the status quo but do their best within it, and leave the thinking to the professionals.   Hence, they have a problem with 'complainers'.  The content of the complaint doesn't matter.  The f...

The Evolution of Racist 'Privilege' to 'Entitlement'

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The Evolution of White/Chinese PRIVILIEGE TO White/Chinese ENTITLEMENT IN consideration of the way the racism thing is going on in the west, and amongst the chinese, i think its time we move a bit on from the idea of White Privilege or Chinese Privilege. In singapore, non-chinese people for decades had spoken about Chinese Racism, or how the chinese are advantaged or priviliged over others. However, singapore chinesecentric and governmental voicebox chinese media only noticed it when some indian girl put the word 'chinese' and 'privileged' together to form the phrase 'chinese privilige', and then, all of a sudden, it became significant and she was credited with coining the term and bringing to light an issue that was otherwise quite hidden? Ridiculous that. Alright, in consideration of Chinese Priviliege as opposed to Chinese Entitlement I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel by calling it a whool. There is an overlap, but it isn't t...