Quote Originally Posted by cocco
...but you should feel a shared responsibility to at the bare minimum educate yourself to not be a part of the problem.
We're all part of the problem because we can't agree on how to eradicate racism. I would like to completely disregard skin colour, but you won't let me. You instead insist I educate myself. I want to live in a world where white people and black people are just people. You want to live in a world where white people feel bad for black people. You are continuing to identify people based on their skin colour.

I don't give a fuck what colour your skin is. That's all there is to it. That's how I believe an individual does his bit to eradicate racism. Not by learning about what happened in 1800's America and treating black people differently to how you would if you hadn't learned that history.

I don't want to identify someone as black and adjust my behaviour. That would be me using skin colour as identity. I don't want to do that, because I want to treat people equally. Not differently based on the colour of their skin.

So this is your angle? That because we think prople who are systemically oppressed fue to the color of their skin, demanding they shouldn't be is "special treatment"?
I'm pointing out that you are identifying people based on their skin colour. I'm trying very hard not to.

You can't treat people equally AND offer "special treatment". And no, demanding people are not oppressed is not "special treatment", unless of course you only make those demands for a certain demographic. What is "special treatment" is assigning victimhood to people of a certain skin colour, like every black person that ever lived is oppressed.