Ok. So you're saying to me that because your race has done all these great things for society that hey everyone else should ignore any oppessive aspects and never have any constructive discussion (in this case a constructive 2 hour presentation) to try to identify how systemic oppression can subtly occur and improve inclusiveness.
But you're the victim in all of this right? I mean a non-white person like me who may disagree with you should not say anything lest I want to inadvertently spark the rise of the fascist regime. It wouldn't be the fascist regime's fault, no. It would be me for speaking up, am I right?
Nobody's saying anything like that.
Blaming "white people" for any perceived oppression is like saying, "wow, look at Venezuela's inflation rate, I guess Hispanics just destroy economies!"
When someone who is not only not oppressing people, but actively being oppressed, is accused of oppressing people, how do you imagine it makes that person feel? Go to a homeless person and tell him he owes you money because of his white male privilege. Note that I don't need to specify the homeless person is white and male; it's overwhelmingly the case in western countries, a far higher proportion of homeless are white men than the general population. I guess they didn't get the memo, they need to cash in their privilege checks.
"White people" do not run the world. "White people" did not own slaves. "White people" are not doing anything to benefit "white people". Believing otherwise is blatant racism.
About 0.00001% of "white people" run the world, along with a similarly small percentage of non-white people. The other 99.99999% have to deal with the world the same as everyone else.
A not quite as insignifcant number of "white people" have owned slaves throughout history, but not only were they more often white than non-white (the word "slave" itself comes from Slav, as the original slaves (in England) were Eastern Europeans), but there are also many non-white people who owned slaves, and in fact the vast majority of the slaves purchased during the transatlantic slave trade were purchased from (black) African slaveowners, mostly by Brazilians.
And no, the people with power are not thinking along racial lines either. They're thinking about themselves.
You complain about "ignoring oppressive aspects", but discount the fact that the VAST majority of people targeted in the video have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. Except exist in the wrong colour, apparently. I thought having disadvantages levied upon you by virtue of your skin colour was a form of oppression...
As for the second part of your statement:
Imagine there's a dog. He's a nice, friendly dog. He lies on the front lawn, keeps it clean from litter, etc. Then some guy comes along and says, "I was bitten by a dog once! All dogs are violent!" and starts throwing stones at the dog.
The dog is a nice, friendly dog. He continues lying on the front lawn, simply ignoring the stones. The guy continues saying, "This dog won't even react to me! Clearly he sees himself as superior and hates humans!" and climbs over the fence and starts poking him with a stick.
The dog is getting a little tired of this. But he's a nice, friendly dog. He walks away. "Oh, so now I'm not even good enough to be in the same space as you?" The man chases the dog around the lawn with the stick.
The dog growls at the man. The man's friends, watching, say "Wow, look how violent that dog is! We should stop him!" and start climbing over the fence and holding down the dog.
The dog starts barking and thrashing about. The man simply says, "Clearly reactionary behaviour, you should learn your place!" and starts poking him harder.
The dog grabs the man's stick in his mouth, and bites it into two. "This proves all dogs are violent and we need to stop them!" He starts smacking the dog instead.
The dog bites one of the people holding him down, tearing flesh off his arm. Another one sprains his ankle running away. The man poking him with a stick has to have his genitals surgically removed. (The media runs a story about how a violent dog attacked a poor innocent man and uses this to pose questions on whether it's okay to beat up dogs.)
Why on earth would you blame the dog?
