Southern: They don’t mind blacks living nearby as long as they don’t get “uppity”

Northern: They don’t mind blacks being “uppity” as long as they don’t live nearby.

I’m not disagreeing with the issue of bias based on skin tone. However, the point I was making is that talking about “white privilege” makes it easier for others to say “I’m not white so I’m not part of the problem” which isn’t true. Whites may be the major contributor to racism in the US but they aren’t the only ones.

There are two types of slavery in the OT depending on whether the slave is a fellow Hebrew or captured from elsewhere. That chapter seems to be talking about Hebrew slaves, and many of those laws about slavery do not apply to non-Hebrew slaves. (Note: I am not a subject matter expert, but the distinction is important.)

Yeah, I knew about India’s love affair with skin whitening products — Bollywood has often portrayed darker skinned people as backward — but I was astounded to find out it’s becoming a global market worth about $10 billion annually, widespread in China, Korea and Japan, with Japan spending the most. Apparently around 3/4 of all women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products.

Yep.

That is par for the course in all the immigration waves. Also this:

1) Immigrants arrive with little English skills and move into ethnic neighborhood.
2) Bust their a*ses off in various jobs to make sure their kids (either born here or came over with them) have schooling, better life etc.
3) Kids do better, have more sucess, education etc and are bilingual and may move out of ethnic neighorbood.
4) Grandkids do even better, and may or may not be bilingual.

Rinse and repeat for different ethnicities.

Yep.

While I agree that different minority groups are differentially discriminated against, I also believe white privilege has a basis in research. A central factor in bias is skin tone. There is a consistent finding in research about attitudes toward skin tone. Generally people have more negative bias toward darker skinned people. You can read about it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273229716000137 — So even though other groups are minorities, they are lighter skinned and don’t face the same bias.

While I agree that different minority groups are differentially discriminated against, I also believe white privilege has a basis in research. A central factor in bias is skin tone. There is a consistent finding in research about attitudes toward skin tone. Generally people have more negative bias toward darker skinned people. You can read about it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273229716000137 — So even though other groups are minorities, they are lighter skinned and don’t face the same bias.

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