I will tell you a short story of how I fought racism in Bulgaria. I am a Turkish minority in Bulgaria. There was an insane true systemic racism against the minority. USSR propagandist even rewrote the history and said that Bulgarians were under 500 years of slavery under Ottoman rule. So you can imagine I was rised in a hostile environment.
The real systemic racism was under a communist party and rule. We were not allowed to any good jobs. For example my old man who was a smart young man and a wrestler was never allowed to the national wrestling team, nor to the communist party, although he has done fantastic party job.
At the end of the communist party we were even forced to change our names. It is well described in the movie Ceb Herkulu for Naim Suleymanov.
Anyway my parents rises me to speak proper Bulgarian. They helped me get good grades and get into a university. We moved to a poor neighbourhood where there were lots of Bulgarian kids, so I can have Bulgarian friends. Now at 34 people are not able to say I am Turkish, unless I tell them. Still the same can not be said about a lot of the Turkish minority here.
So fighting discriminations and racism according to me, best is done by the discriminated person taking action and making effort to be included in the society. Not cry and riot against the society. However the children must have the opportunity to get there. Good parents and family that are willing to educate are an excellent start.
We can argue. Every empire had ways to exploit its population and its dirty work. Killings, rapes even between their own. The Ottomans were no saints, but Bulgarians were not slaves. It is a shame that the Bulgarians would agree to thst statement, calling their ancestors slaves. Bulgarians had the right of property, to practice their trade and earn with it. They were allowed to practice their religion and by the end they had.their churches and schools. Heck the taxation was even lower than it is now.
It is just a communist propaganda to name Russia brothers and saviours, rather than slavery. Ottomans and Bulgarians were living together and they had almost equal rights, if not equal at least as many as the Turks had under Todor Zhivkov. And no complains the Turkish minority lived as good as the Bulgarians prior to 86.
If you notice the trend, the commons were doing fine in all the periods, unless some leader decides to do something stupid.
Anyway back to topic. The best way to fight racism is to make sure the kids from the minority are given the chance to integrate. For that however you need strong family. The way I see it with the blacks in USA is that they lack the fathers in their house. I would not blame only black men for it, but the government must find a way for the black to earn his money honestly with a proper trade, so he can go back home and provide for his kids.
Youâre not wrong, but one of the big problems isnât the ABILITY to earn money to take care of your kids⌠It is not having the desire to take care of your kids at all in the first place.
To be sure there are plenty of dads trying to do the right thing, but they are 100% drowned out by the tramps who donât care or want to.
Why are millennials the nastiest, most hateful, intolerant, douchebaggy, violent, angry, hostile, rude, antisocial, narcissistic generation? Iâm sure there are some millennials here who might be able to explain it. Itâs a generation that was raised by wolves.
When did you stop beating your wife? JK (just figured I would answer with another loaded question). I havenât really noticed this among other millennials, but most that I hang with are upper / upper middle class professionals.
Perhaps some are upset that they are in debt from college, canât afford more than an apartment, canât afford a car. They mostly made choices that got them where they are, but they were also encouraged by their parents to do so.
I know growing up college was pushed hard. I think the people pushing it (Boomers) may have been using outdated information. Many get 100K debt, and a job that pays 38K per year. I would be pissed too if I was in that position. Again, they ultimately choose to do what they did, but they may not have had the best info.
My guess is you will probably think the same about gen Z once they get to mid 20s.
I always wonder what the hell is wrong with people when I read things like âsome people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressorsâ bullshit.
Itâs like, you donât think humans are complicated? You donât think theyâre multifaceted? You think EVERYTHING and EVERYONE is defined by a centuries old wrong that doesnât exist in this country?
What the hell man. We got problems but it ainât that bad
Millennials are best thought of as Boomers 2.0: moralistic, idealistic ⌠thatâs where their relative âintoleranceâ comes from.
GenZ will be more like GenX: cynical, a little âworld-wearyâ, they will mock Millennial attitudes mercilessly (think of GenXers wearing âShut Up Hippieâ t-shirts to mock Boomers back in the 90s).
Bingo. Youâre either oppressedâRIGHT NOWâor youâre not. It assumed some sort of bullshit racial memory. That sort of thing can only exist if your father/grandfather/antecedents deliberately instilled it in you.