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    [–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Also, since we're talking "global struggle" here, I don't get why racism is being depicted as something that only or mainly occurs between black and white people. There's lots of different kinds of racism in the world. For example, lots of east Asian people are racist towards blacks, and many black people are racist towards east Asians.

    The Middle East is rife with racism. Arab Muslims historically and today are, generally speaking, very racist towards those who are not Arab and Muslim. The Islamic Arab slave trade lasted far longer and involved far greater numbers of black Africans than the white European and Atlantic slave trade did. Even today, many in the Arab world still practice and support actual and de facto slavery of non-Arabs, especially of those with dark skin from south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa along with people from parts of east Asia like the Philippines.

    As for "Islamophobia," lots of the world's Muslims are incredibly prejudiced towards and abusive of non-Muslims. And they see non-Muslim girls and women as the lowest of the low, subhumans whom they feel it is their right to subject to the most horrific kinds of abuse. Just look at the "grooming gang" scandals in the UK. All the perps are Muslim men, mostly but not entirely of Pakistani origin and heritage. And the vast numbers of girls and women they have raped, beaten, sex trafficked and in some cases killed have been mostly white English/British, or to a lesser extent Indian girls and women from Sikh and Hindu families.