Things that are so obvious and ingrained that no one even thinks about them.

Here’s a few:

All US americans can go to Mexico EASILY. You’re supposed to have a passport but you don’t even need one (for car/foot crossing). Versus, it’s really hard for Mexicans, who aren’t wealthy, to secure a VISA to enter the US. I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.

Another one is wealthy countries having access to vaccines far ahead of “poor” countries.

In US, we might pay lip service to equal child-hood education but most of the funding pulls from local taxes so some kids might receive ~$10000 in spending while another receives $2000. I’m not looking it up at the moment, but I’m SURE there are strong racial stratas.

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[+] 108 points 2 years ago (17 children)
  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The ENTIRE fucking reason America claims it was allowed to exist is that George Fucking Washington and his associates were SUFFICIENTLY OPPRESSED by the British government, to the point where it became permissible to fire 70 caliber lead balls into soldiers skulls.

    But black and brown people should just fucking take it I guess

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago*

    Not to mention, the american revolution happened because the settlers wanted to keep their slaves, keep expanding their colonies and genociding indigenous people, and didn't want to pay taxes on shit. And it's permissible and noble for them to revolt under those conditions

    Meanwhile it's bad when Palestinians rise up when they have been refugees and ethnically cleansed for 75 years

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    This also goes with the States. we learned about MLK jr. a lot in school and he "peacefully protested." But we weren't taught much about Malcolm X or Fred Hampton because they were "violent thugs".

    We weren't taught that King was a socialist but some classes called Malcolm X and Hampton socialist or communist. Which rolled into how the Black Panthers were "a violent gang" instead of a group of inner city poor people doing mutual aid for impoverished neighborhoods and poor schools.

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (79 children)

    Treating the usian "founding fathers" as democracy-loving freedom fighters

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I found out not too long ago that apparently in polite voteblue society it's still okay to talk about countries being "civilized" where "civilized" essentially means "white". I am used to chauvinism, but that one really got to me (it was about Russia's invasion being the first time in a long time that there was a war between two "civilized" countries).

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    [–] 80 points 2 years ago (30 children)

    "I got jipped" or however it's spelled. We say it all the time in America, but a euro transplant informed me that it's basically a slur for gypsies.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    FYI the best term for the ethnic group is Roma.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    True. Gypsy itself is a slur too, right? Sorry, idk much and European bigotry aside from the meme where Europeans scold us for being a racist country, then turn around and say they want to exterminate the Roma.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah I think so. We have a lot of great threads on Roma culture in Hexbear, I'd recommend checking them out because their culture is really cool. I especially love Romani architecture.

    Seriously, check out these sick palaces!

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    [–] 80 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Racial "preferences" in dating. No matter how they cut it, it's racist. Yet people will say "it's ok to have preferences!"

    Yeah sure.... I mean back in the day many people "preferred" to not eat with black ppl.... jesus fucking christ the racial preferences in dating really ticks me off (especially when you see someone who is otherwise "liberal" and "hates hate" date only white people)

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago* (21 children)

    ”Declining birthrates” is considered a normal thing to talk about, even though it only refers to white people.

    Condescending attitudes towards any non-international-community-1international-community-2 country, like I remember when the US left Afghanistan and a lot of people said stuff along the lines of ”We helped them so much and they still didn't become a good liberal democracy!”.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    ”Declining birthrates” is considered a normal thing to talk about, even though it only refers to white people.

    I encourage you not to read any comments sections about declining birthrates in Japan, South Korea, or China. They invariably read like cattle farmers complaining about a bad year, except usually cattle farmers aren't chomping at the bit to go fuck the cows.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I will make 1 or 2 exceptions for the "muh birthrates" crowd, because I just listened to an absolutely heartbreaking interview with a school teacher in rural occupied korea who was lamenting that his school had been built in the 1960s and had rooms for 70-odd students per year, and his latest class had a total of 5 children in it, because cuck-Korea has had a total collapse in the amount of children that people are having. Obviously the proposed solution was not going to work, since Korea has banned all talk of improving society, but the story was still heartbreaking.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago

    The police.

    More specific answer, the very obvious racial stratification of any urban region in the US. How different demographics look from neighborhood to neighborhood and the clear relation to worse housing, education, everything really. But it seems very normalized.

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    Acting like the US is the only country with diversity and treating every other nationality in North America that isn't Canada like a race.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    I always thought it was strange how widely accepted a statement like "I don't date [Race]" is. Like yeah, I get it, people have preferences and shit but you'd never hear anyone say something like "I don't want to be friends with [Race]" because that's unacceptably racist.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    bUt PeOpLe ArE aLlOwEd To HaVe PrEfErEnCeS!!!!!

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (23 children)

    This is pretty insignificant, but it fucking drives me nuts. Whenever a couple goes somewhere and takes the woman's car, the man drives. It's like some silly power dynamic that is built into all M/F relationships in the US.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.

    This is pretty much how it works worldwide. Living in The Empire™ grants you that benefit. "The power of a US passport" is very well known. Every country could use American tourist money. It is absolutely another neo-colonial sort of relationship. I saw a documentary that shows that Jamaicans (or another Caribbean country) have a harder time getting into Jamaica than Americans do.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Everyone pets Lalafells without permission.

    Joking aside, the way people treat the British as experts because of their accents.

    How immigrants from Europe/Americas are "expats" in developing nations. How Euro-American immigrants gentrify the neighborhoods and country they're in, treating the local populace as NPC servants to their narcissism and wealth.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago*

    One very normalized thing that always infuriates me is the way news headlines report on major disasters. It's always "Plane crashes in China, TWO AMERICANS DEAD", "Nuclear explosions blows up populated city, four Britons confirmed missing", like bitch all the people on that plane and in that city were valuable humans with valuable lives, not just people with the same colour passport as me.

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