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How? You are literally just making things up now.

Simply change the labels in your statement and you have textbook discrimination in every country and historical context. “Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” You saying this now and in the US doesn’t make it less hatred-based or fundamentally unacceptable than it should be.

> How about instead, you stand for women and people of color because it's the right thing to do? Regardless of how little they trust white men. Maybe, just maybe, try and understand why they wouldn't trust white men?

Ok but tell me when in America have women and people of color ever oppressed white men? That's why "just change the label and it's totally racist bro" doesn't make any sense at all. Because it's been white men who have oppressed women and people of color. Not the other way around. It has never been the other way around. Ever.

It makes sense, because judging people by their skin color is wrong, no matter who does it or who they do it to.

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