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As a European who doesn’t think Europe has an ongoing skin color / racism problem, you’re signaling that you’ve never really thought about the proceeds of slavery and colonialism to finance, well, almost everything we associate with modern Europe. Especially ignorant if you’re French, British, Dutch, Belgian, Italian, and probably a few other extreme oppressors left off that list.

America has a lot of problems, but we TALK about them. Europe is at least 20 years behind the curve. You guys would be happy with pedophile priests if we hadn’t exposed them.

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Nice, blame today's europeans for the horrors of collonialism.

How dare they not base their identities around talking about it.

> Europe is at least 20 years behind the curve.

I fear you are correct. If current political trends continue, in 20 years race relations in Europe will be as harmonious as they are in America today.

> You guys would be happy with pedophile priests if we hadn’t exposed them.

Educate yourself; Stay in your lane; etc

https://youtu.be/2dKdBlKgquw

That’s a pop star you ran out of town. The BBC or Der Spiegel weren’t falling all over themselves to be first to let everyone know that the Catholic Church had a giant problem. There’s a reason Spotlight was an important movie.

An Irish pop-star... Ireland has known about paedo-priests long before Hollywood. And the pop-star above performed that piece on SNL. It ended her in the US. I'm not American, by the way.

I didn't want to start a comment war of Europe against USA. I'm saying that from my outsider point of view, with an European education that taught me about slavery, colonialism, and a little of finance, USA has an obvious ingoing problem with skin colours and racism. I don't really think us European are behind the curve, we are just on another line. We are not perfect too, and we haven't been in the past. You mention slavery and colonialism I will add the too many genocides. We can take, and we do take lessons from USA, sometimes a bit late yes. USA could also take lessons from Europe, we have some experience about what not to do.

Recording people's skin colour in a file sounds like a literal dystopia.

Keep on convincing yourself its normal.

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