Apple denounces neo-Nazis as Spotify bans ‘white power’ tracks

This bothers me a lot. More and more we see certain minorities be allowed to do things that they shouldn't get away with, while the same actions by white racists are (justly) demonized. White nationalists are an issue, but so are all the other racist minorities out there that don't get any shit. A ban should be universal against all racism, if that's what they are going for.


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Honestly I feel like this unequal treatment of white racists vs racist minorities is why several first world countries around the world are going for the super-right wing governments recently and why the racial tensions are so high. Predominantly white countries are the ones that accept tons of immigrants in general, then have to deal with inequality compared to those they accepted into their countries...

Compare to the rest of the world : Asia afaik doesn't have many countries accepting refugees and large scale immigration. If you aren't asian there, you are second class for a LOT of people and you won't get half of the asian population protecting you if you do something openly racist (as opposed to how some racist minorities get by way more easily in the west). Africa and the Middle East, same thing. Good luck being a racist minority there, you follow their rules and keep your head low or you will lose your head. What I'm trying to say, is that in those countries/regions, the minorities don't really hold any power. They aren't necessarily undermined (although in same places they definitely are), but they don't have much of a voice. I'm not talking about if that's right or wrong, but it's just the truth.

Only in predominantly white countries do minorities suddenly have all the power. That's why so many white people are "turning racist" or at least white people are starting to protect their white identity more vigorously. At this rate, in 100 years, there will still be predominantly black, middle eastern, asian and latino countries and regions and none of them seem in danger of losing their identity (well, war certainly hurts some regions no denying that). On the other hand, countries that were historically predominantly white countries are quickly all becoming more multi-cultural hubs. The only countries I see still being a predominantly white country in the future is Russia and other ex-USSR eastern european countries because of their policies against immigration.

I think a lot of white people are afraid that they are being phased out by the minorities in their countries, and honestly those feelings start with small things like enabling racism from minorities and never speaking about it, while strongly condemning that very same racism from white groups. It's enabling minorities to openly hate white people with no repercussions while on the other hand, if you are white you should (again, justly) be open and welcoming of every race otherwise you are evil. This inequality is straight up creating racist white people. This isn't the 1900s anymore when white people definitely had more rights. People see they are getting treated differently because they are white, and not in a positive way. It's going to create resentment, obviously. Same as how anti-white racism movements grew.

You might be all for multi-cultural societies and I don't think they are a bad thing myself, but they only work if everyone is treated equally. They only work if no one feels as if they are a second rate group compared to others. Anti-white racism in the past few years has driven tons of people to feel as if they aren't accepted. Proof? Trump is president and still has support despite saying openly racist things on a regular basis, and just generally being an insane narcissistic egomaniac. Brexit happened. Those are obviously the big ones. Still, look around. In France, the far-right movement got a decent amount of support; in Canada there's a growing support too (although I don't think it will ever get big) because of Trump getting elected. A few western european countries are definitely seeing some far-right movements slowly grow as well.

This whole mess IMO is a direct result of white people being forced to be politically correct on every situation, while minorities can say just about anything. Until we have true equality, these movements won't go away. They will only get worse as the people who try to enforce these inequalities fail to see how much harm they are doing. People who don't want to be marginalized are starting to fight back with these movements and the tensions won't be easily dispersed.

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