Current Events > Have white people ever been repressed or enslaved or anything of that sort?

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

The origin of the word slave comes from Slav people that were enslaved in the 9th century by Muslims in Spain.

And the word bad comes from the word Baeddel which was used to refer to trans women.
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ehhwhatever posted...

That_Happened posted...

omega cookie posted...

If you want to exclude the Irish,

He's not excluding the Irish. He's saying that it was discrimination against a small pocket of Europeans that weren't considered white at the time. There was never a time in American history where all whites as a group (Irish, Italian, Polish, German, English, French, and so on) were discriminated against under the umbrella of "white people." There were times when some of those European groups were terrible to others, but that was more specific.

How about not being able to vote? Yes southern white men could not vote at one time. Think about it.

Because only wealthy white male landowners could vote. They weren't discriminated against because they were white, they were discriminated against cause they were broke, didn't own shit worth bragging about, or didn't have a penis.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

ehhwhatever posted...

That_Happened posted...

omega cookie posted...

If you want to exclude the Irish,

He's not excluding the Irish. He's saying that it was discrimination against a small pocket of Europeans that weren't considered white at the time. There was never a time in American history where all whites as a group (Irish, Italian, Polish, German, English, French, and so on) were discriminated against under the umbrella of "white people." There were times when some of those European groups were terrible to others, but that was more specific.

How about not being able to vote? Yes southern white men could not vote at one time. Think about it.

Because only wealthy white male landowners could vote. They weren't discriminated against because they were white, they were discriminated against cause they were broke, didn't own shit worth bragging about, or didn't have a penis.

Another way Republicans kept control in the South was by preventing whites from voting there. They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union. This prevented the majority of southern whites from voting for Democrats and against Republicans.Jul 13, 2005
Ever heard of a "yellow dog democrat"? I'd rather vote for a yellow dog than Republican.
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Vikings


Plus anything that happened to the Irish outside of Ireland. They had it rough but are white skinned and get no help
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A_Good_Boy posted...

ehhwhatever posted...

That_Happened posted...

omega cookie posted...

If you want to exclude the Irish,

He's not excluding the Irish. He's saying that it was discrimination against a small pocket of Europeans that weren't considered white at the time. There was never a time in American history where all whites as a group (Irish, Italian, Polish, German, English, French, and so on) were discriminated against under the umbrella of "white people." There were times when some of those European groups were terrible to others, but that was more specific.

How about not being able to vote? Yes southern white men could not vote at one time. Think about it.

Because only wealthy white male landowners could vote. They weren't discriminated against because they were white, they were discriminated against cause they were broke, didn't own shit worth bragging about, or didn't have a penis.

You hate whites from the south?
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ehhwhatever posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

ehhwhatever posted...

That_Happened posted...

omega cookie posted...

If you want to exclude the Irish,

He's not excluding the Irish. He's saying that it was discrimination against a small pocket of Europeans that weren't considered white at the time. There was never a time in American history where all whites as a group (Irish, Italian, Polish, German, English, French, and so on) were discriminated against under the umbrella of "white people." There were times when some of those European groups were terrible to others, but that was more specific.

How about not being able to vote? Yes southern white men could not vote at one time. Think about it.

Because only wealthy white male landowners could vote. They weren't discriminated against because they were white, they were discriminated against cause they were broke, didn't own shit worth bragging about, or didn't have a penis.

Another way Republicans kept control in the South was by preventing whites from voting there. They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union. This prevented the majority of southern whites from voting for Democrats and against Republicans.Jul 13, 2005

So not because they were white, but because they took part in a rebellion.
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LittleRoyal posted...

Plus anything that happened to the Irish outside of Ireland.

attempted genocide in Ireland for 800 years

LittleRoyal posted...

Vikings


Plus anything that happened to the Irish outside of Ireland. They had it rough but are white skinned and get no help

It was Christians (white people) who targeted the vikings for their religious views. Unless you mean the viking "pillaging" thing which was almost entirely based on retaliatory motives against Christians, not white people.
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ehhwhatever posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

ehhwhatever posted...

That_Happened posted...

omega cookie posted...

If you want to exclude the Irish,

He's not excluding the Irish. He's saying that it was discrimination against a small pocket of Europeans that weren't considered white at the time. There was never a time in American history where all whites as a group (Irish, Italian, Polish, German, English, French, and so on) were discriminated against under the umbrella of "white people." There were times when some of those European groups were terrible to others, but that was more specific.

How about not being able to vote? Yes southern white men could not vote at one time. Think about it.

Because only wealthy white male landowners could vote. They weren't discriminated against because they were white, they were discriminated against cause they were broke, didn't own shit worth bragging about, or didn't have a penis.

You hate whites from the south?

Just the dumb racist ones.
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there's no such thing as "white heritage" because whiteness isn't a real thing. it's an identity constructed to make american immigrants - whether Italian, Irish, Ukrainian, French, etc. - believe they were all the same

"white" people have never faced discrimination for being white
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

The origin of the word slave comes from Slav people that were enslaved in the 9th century by Muslims in Spain.

Wow. I did not know that. And I'm Serbian, a Slavic country.

And we were under Muslim rule for a very long time. Interesting.
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You can loophole if you want to get around the offensive rule but at the end of the day you're no different to the 1950s

Yikes. Welp. Im out. Later mouth breathers.
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Romans used to oppress all non Romans. people all over europe were oppressed and enslaved by them

Zikten posted...

Romans used to oppress all non Romans. people all over europe were oppressed and enslaved by them

Yep, particularly the northern peoples. The gauls, Germanic peoples, and the britons.
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Yes by the biggest slavers as all time the muslims with a estimated 3-4 million slavs alone been taken in slave raids from the area that is now modern Russia which lead to a young Russia crushing the crimean tatars to stop it.

Also millions where taken by black Africans including little known slave raids into places like southen England well into 16-17th centuries.

It's a myth the left like to propagate that whites are the source of all slavery.

LittleRoyal posted...

Vikings


Plus anything that happened to the Irish outside of Ireland. They had it rough but are white skinned and get no help

Outside of Ireland? Are you for cereal and completely ignorant of the Irish Civil War and Winston Churchhill?
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Some people here would have you believe that every white person is Irish.
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look at all these rookie users with like no karma and a bajillion AMP going at each other
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I am surprised the Barbary Pirates haven't been mentioned.

I think the first two wars the US were involved in after the Revolutionary War were against the Barbary Pirates on the coast of now Tunisia and Algeria. They captured white slaves and sold them in the Arab slave market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
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Kineth posted...

Some people here would have you believe that every white person is Irish.

To be entirely fair, most white people in America have Irish in them.

They were the most prolific immigrant group of white people in American history. And they went fucking everywhere in the country. And quickly assimilated into American society after that whole backlash against them.
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Kineth posted...

Some people here would have you believe that every white person is Irish.

and that every irish person is white
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averagejoel posted...

Kineth posted...

Some people here would have you believe that every white person is Irish.

and that every irish person is white

I n the 1800s they were. Today? Of course not.
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philsov posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Which... really just puts more merit into "white people are the devil" argument, tbh.

I love how I see posts like this practically daily and people still try to call this #Stormfaqs
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YourDrunkFather posted...

philsov posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Which... really just puts more merit into "white people are the devil" argument, tbh.

I love how I see posts like this practically daily and people still try to call this #Stormfaqs

Odd because I see the opposite posts daily and also literally daily.
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YourDrunkFather posted...

philsov posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Which... really just puts more merit into "white people are the devil" argument, tbh.

I love how I see posts like this practically daily and people still try to call this #Stormfaqs

Thats called socialism a stupid ideology that to many people want to implement in the US.

The worst famine was the great Chinese famine 1960 caused by you gussed it LOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

stfu clown. Literally made up all the shit other than the famine.
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That's such BS. Romans didn't enslave you for your skin color and two Rome is dead, its people dead and nobody is alive from that time or being affected as such. Slavery was a bit over a hundred years ago and Black America still feels the effects of it. White America think once the Civil War ended everyone was happy and loving.
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nbda3A4eWFR2 posted...

Did America persecute white people? Yup. But we don't like talking about history like that apparently.

White people, as a whole, have never been persecuted or marginalized to the extent that black people have. If you're trying to have a pity party / race to the bottom on behalf of your race, you're going to lose if you're white.
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plenty White people have been oppressed. it was just by other White people. some of these White people hate/hated the nationality of other White people, but it wasn't for the color of their skin. once they could speak the language well and weren't too outwardly proud of their true ethnic heritage, they were passed this problem.
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How has no one mentioned the Ottoman Empire yet?
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Yes, they've been enslaved (remember where the term "Shanghaied" comes from), and then you have oppression by various Tsars, Romans, Vikings, Stalin, Lenin, other Communist leaders, and a couple of African nations (Zimbabwe ring a bell). Most oppression of whites come from other whites.
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Sure.

Usually by other white people though, but not always.
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Of course. Human beings have been enslaving each other for hundreds of years all over the world.
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Newhopes posted...

Yes by the biggest slavers as all time the muslims with a estimated 3-4 million slavs alone been taken in slave raids from the area that is now modern Russia which lead to a young Russia crushing the crimean tatars to stop it.

Also millions where taken by black Africans including little known slave raids into places like southen England well into 16-17th centuries.

It's a myth the left like to propagate that whites are the source of all slavery.

People always say this like it's some revelation or it's kryptonite to "left wingers". It is brought up in literally every topic about slavery. Can you point to even one person on the left saying whites were the only source of slavery or that other races haven't enslaved people?
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irish were considered on the level of black people way back when, ie sub-human

"what is an irishmen but a n***** turned inside out?"


but they were still considered 'white'. just dangerous, poor, uneducated whites.
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Kineth posted...

Some people here would have you believe that every white person is Irish.

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ChromaticAngel posted...

nbda3A4eWFR2 posted...

Did America persecute white people? Yup. But we don't like talking about history like that apparently.

White people, as a whole, have never been persecuted or marginalized to the extent that black people have. If you're trying to have a pity party / race to the bottom on behalf of your race, you're going to lose if you're white.

Sounds to me like your doing the pity party. Who cares who's committing the atrocities to who? Slavery is awful and human beings are a shitty species as a rough whole.
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Lil_Bit83 posted...

Who cares who's committing the atrocities to who?

Newhopes.
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