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Hate begets hate and the more our country and the world hates on white people, the easier the far right has in recruiting people. As a white person I can say not in my Army, not in my community, and not in my life but there is only so much I can do when they create a ripe environment for recruiting. I worry about my son who can be a proud Asian but never a proud Irishman, how is he going to be as he gets older?
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Yeah it’s complicated... I am not sure I’d say “hate on white people” but I get your point. I work in academia and so for a relatively middle of the road small gov liberal conservative that I am, there is a lot of white bashing around me.
I remember during the height of the PC Obama years, telling friends that white dudes in bumfuck are going to revolt the more we make them it yo be the enemy just for being white... fast forward, and look at where we are.
There have been wrongs committed by whites and there is continued systemic racism committed by whites however the vilification of all whites is not the best approach. Awareness should be raised and white privilege needs to be acknowledged but making everyone to be evil before a crime is committed doesn’t help. Quite the opposite.

Case in point- this kind of stuff is going to backfire

https://apple.news/AkrxLpp8HRM-5K-knjv3xIA
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Byron Oyler
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COL (Join to see) - I appreciate your response Sir as I am always concerned about replying to such topics and being called racist. Hate is a strong word and I can appreciate your hesitance to use it. This is a discussion people of all walks need to come together and without pre-existing bias, fix. I grew up a couple miles from Monroe Elementary school in Topeka, KS and racism towards other colors was never an option and for people to show discontent to me because of white privilege is a strong pill to swallow. On the east side in Topeka it was just the opposite. Having gone to the Philippines and married into that culture, I am starting to see white privilege but it is nothing I have ever done to foster, push, create, or expect. If anything, it is how minorities treat us and probably goes back 80 years with minorities wanting acceptance into the white culture. My wife told me how Filipinos want to have babies with caucasians believing they turn out more attractive and this was nothing I ever pushed or knew about until long after she was pregnant. My kids can go to the Philippines and just walk through the mall and pick the most attractive and intelligent person they want to date because they are half white and this is nothing I ever did to foster. So yes white privilege exists but it is nothing most of us ever did to make it happen and those that vilify us for it are just building walls, not taking them down.
Please feel free to reply here or reach out in any way (outlook, facebook,etc) as together we can start to fix this and be unified. SFC James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
https://www.nps.gov/brvb/learn/historyculture/monroe.htm
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I appreciate you MAJ Byron Oyler. I definitely taje exception to those who vilify the innocent. Being born white should not be a crime. Ignorance by those who foster and promote this philosophy is unforgivable and worsens the problem.
That said as you can relate, most whites don’t understand their privilege and so even they see a black or colored person being treated completely differently than a white perdón doing the exact same thing, they don’t get it. And worsen the situation by sticking to their “I don’t see color” mantra.
Hopefully more dialogue from people with empathy and Less egoism will help both “sides” understand the other.
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It appears that Germany has their issues also.
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My thoughts exactly.
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