Can we add 'ISTM' to the profanity filter tho.

In response to the title:

No, it's not.

How come? Is that abbreviation now deemed un-PC now?

i still don't know what ISTM means

Yes.

That and being a condescending way of weaseling out of fully committing to your statements.

Also, to expand on Soy's point, no, because it's talking about the social norms that have come about through the history of ethnicities where white people have been advantaged by their ability to seize... everything and that should be pretty well acknowledged.

But how do you quantify if, or how much, any given white person has benefited from oppression? Clearly someone descended from labourers has had little or no gain, whereas a person whose inherited wealth was derived directly from the slave trade has benefited greatly.

Claiming that every living white person's existence is drenched in racism is as big of a blanket statement as they get. Besides let's not forget that black people selling and buying black slaves was also a huge thing in the slave trade so lets not start condemning people for their ancestors' actions, mkay?

Also how in the world is "It Seems To Me" un-PC? lmao. I just can't.

Since when - and who decides which words & phrases are on the 'banned' list?

Also how in the world is "It Seems To Me" un-PC? lmao. I just can't.

Are you really going to attempt to argue that Africa was enriched by the slave trade in the way America and Europe were? And racism goes beyond just the slave trade. There were another good 150 years of empire after Britain stopped trading in slaves.

I just honestly don't understand how this unconscious racist bias talk and saying that every single white person's existence is drenched in racism is going to help solve the problem. I just don't understand how saying that "because some white people are racist the rest of them must be as well" is any better than any other stereotype about race, gender or sexuality.

Do you really think the advantages of empire were entirely individual and only went to families? We live in an exceptionally wealthy country which built much of that wealth on the exploited riches of the world's biggest empire. There's a reason the British working class are broadly better off than, say, the Austrian working class.

British Petroleum, Barclays, HSBC, pretty much the entirety of the North West, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol - all companies, cities, regions built off the fortunes of the resources we exploited by invading and occupying Commonwealth nations. That in turn generated other economic activity. Once we disestablished that empire our cities and towns had the economic base from that wealth to manage the transition and produce the country we see today.

Do you really think you're the first person to ask these questions? Don't you have even the slightest bit of intellectual curiosity to think past the first argument that comes into your head?

Yes, yes, it isn't just white people who've done terrible things to other races in the name of empire, the Japanese did plenty to try and catch up in their imperial phase and every people group that had an empire was oppressive in some way towards those different from them. But given Europeans conquered so much of the world and took it upon themselves to exploit those they conquered for material gain, that's the principal impact that's been left upon the world and it's still being felt as countries that could have been on a par with Western civilisation are behind and less developed because of the poor situations they were left in - the few that were relatively untouched or were let go of empire relatively early in East Asia and the Americas (and even then for America, only after the near complete genocide of the indigenous peoples) are in much better positions today than Africa and South Asia.

It's finding that the vast majority of white people have unconscious prejudices against those of other races, regardless of whether or not they'd consider themselves racist - that isn't a stereotype, that's hard evidence which comes out whenever these things are tested.

My position is - I simply don't subscribe to the self-hating left-wing PC ideology.

Like every moral person, I feel regret over what was done in the name of the British Empire, but I feel no guilt over it. Guilt implies direct responsibility, which obviously cannot apply to actions that occurred centuries back.

But if it's unconscious, then we can hardly be blamed for it - and besides, unconscious prejudices are not restricted to Caucasians.