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Why are black people a constant target?

I noticed a trend on SW with users on the low try to generalize black people as if we all are are prone to violence, crime, or being racist. These people you see on the news do not speak for every black person. I noticed since around the BLM movement (which I don't fully support anymore) a lot of people usually white like to call us rioters, looters, or thug/criminals and now there's a stigma about us that a black people are racist.

They need to remember that racism is taught this goes for Asians too people need to remember that when the Covid started Chinese people in China literally said that they didn't want n***er's in their restaurant or spaces because they thought blacks are prone to getting Covid but people may not care because I don't think it was on national news but people need to remember that Asians are also very anti-black not saying that they deserve the hate that the get because of the Pandemic it's stupid the person who first got Covid was American (or at least what I heard)

This post is referencing to this post https://similarworlds.com/police-law/crime/4418727-What-was-shown-to-be-behind-the-recent-increase-in and posts similar to this and users on SW will take the opportunity to say something to dehumanize blacks and some of them are young there's an account on here which is probably an alt that I noticed it anti-black. (Like I the comments from the post I linked above)

SW when are you going to start taking action on posts and comments like these? @SW-Admin @Nuno
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
I think a big part of it is politically motivated. Since racial identity politics has become the new moral outrage from liberals in the US, conservatives (because let's face it, they're mostly the ones dismissing black people) automatically adopt a contrarian attitude in order to reconcile with their knee-jerk assumption that liberals are automatically wrong.

The other part of it is most likely the availability heuristic. The weird thing about anti-minority attitudes is that it almost always comes from people that live in the most homogeneous places. Like the example you brought up about China. How many of them actually know any black people?

When your only exposure to something is what you see in entertainment or in social media, which by design amplify stereotypes and negativity, then these people's exposure to racial differences is largely an illusion constructed by compounding biases. It's essentially propaganda. As a result, people on the internet have become fully indoctrinated into hating groups of people they've never met or had any interactions with.

While there is something to be said about crime and criminality being statistically concentrated in predominantly black neighborhoods, there are a variety of other factors plaguing those communities besides skin color. To extrapolate such egregiously generalized claims from such a narrow slice of the population is the hallmark of ignorance.

It would be like believing most men will assault you or that many white boys will grow up to commit a mass shooting. What you see in the world of media is not necessarily reflective of the real world. They just exaggerate things in order to capture your attention. To believe that black people are inherently criminal because of a few bad neighborhoods in America is such a simpleton point of view. It speaks volumes as to how little you've actually seen of the world.
Chickie · F
@TinyViolins I couldn't have said it myself. I do agree that these people don't know a lot of black people then there's the token black person that just goes along with whatever they say.
KiwiDan · 31-35, M
This is that systemic racism that racists deny exists.
Chickie · F
@TheGreatestEver123 you always make comments like this wouldn't be surprised if you were one. You never answered my question.
TheGreatestEver123 · 41-45, M
@Chickie You bias is not worthy of a response.
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SW-User
They are the type of people who have never been around too many black people. They hear about some terrible crime on the news commited by the perpetrator who happened to be black and group us all together as being the violent ones. They think we all have a low IQ and use pseudoscience to back up their ignorant claim, and the list goes on. Even on the talk of the hate crimes on Asian Americans due to covid, people tend to ignore that other race’s besides the black people seen on the 9 o’clock news have also attacked Asian Americans.
Chickie · F
@SW-User
They think we all have a low IQ and use pseudoscience to back up their ignorant claim, and the list goes on.
there was user here that does this I don't remember his handle but he came back like the cockroach he is probably still have his account up and yeah someone on the thread posted that a lot of the Asian attackers are white and people quickly dismissed it and went back to dehumanizing us. I don't see how some black people can blindly support a group of people without being aware that they can be anti-black
dale74 · M
I have friends with dark skin tones in every section of life I have one friend who is an executive at Erickson communications have another friend who owns close to 600 apartments I have friends that work just regular every day jobs. Then I get some friends and they just do enough to get by but it’s what makes him happy. I have worked with youth from the streets and it is hard to get the street mentality out of a person who grew up on the street and teach them that there is more to life than gangbang.
Chickie · F
@dale74
street mentality out of a person who grew up on the street and teach them that there is more to life than gangbang
that's what some people of SW don't understand there are beliefs that the US tries to keep black people in poor neighborhoods like "The Ghetto" and a lot of people here believe that black people are some kind street thugs it could be anyone.

Foreigners in their country also have thugs and they get looked at as cool.
dale74 · M
@Chickie You are very correct it doesn’t matter what your skin tutor is it matters the people who influence you in life and if they’re able to teach you that there is more to life than the government panned out and substandard living conditions with just the necessities.
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
While I'm not black I did grow up in a mostly black neighborhood I'll just be honest with you Young black boys and girls idolize thugs on these rap music videos and shit and that's all that they're seeing It doesn't help them in the long run
Chickie · F
@TheRascallyOne
Young black boys and girls idolize thugs on these rap music videos and shit and that's all that they're seeing
yes, because it's all they know/ were taught about. I grew up in a different environment so I didn't really idolize people like rappers but I had a relative that said he wanted to be a gangster when he grew, I was kid when I heard this and thought it was said. We do need to do better but some people here think blacks are criminals.
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
@Chickie Criminals come in all sizes and all colors
TheGreatestEver123 · 41-45, M
Probably just your bias is making you see what you want to see.
Chickie · F
@TheGreatestEver123 care to explain what you mean by that? Btw this is something I am always seeing on SW so I don't understand how that's biased.

 
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