Observed 'White Guilt'

[AverageJoe90]

19. You are not alone, my friend, by any means.

Coming from someone, who, admittedly, once had his own issues with "White Guilt", this is indeed unfortunate. It is especially unfortunate when someone comes out and absolutely INSISTS that all white people, have, somehow, benefitted from institutionalized racism, etc.

Here's a question that should be asked: Did all Japanese benefit, when their military was committing the Rape of Nanking, and taking home Korean and Chinese, etc. "comfort women"? And did all Soviet Russians reap benefits when hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians died thanks to horrific amounts of criminal incompetence & negligence in regards to certain of Stalin's failed collectivization policies? Do all Chinese now benefit from discriminatory violence against Tibetans, Uighurs, etc.? Do all Israelis now benefit from discrimination against Palestinians?

Simply put, the answer, even in these cases, is no. Just as not all American whites have ever reaped benefits from institutionalized racism. In fact, in this day and age, I'd even go as far as to wager that the large majority of white people now living, have not. We fail to understand this at our own peril.