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Oh we definitely have racism. It's just less "black lives matter" and more "only my skin colour matters". And yeah, this definitely extends to the police too. But given they're very, very scrutinised every time they dare pull their gun in public, at least we don't have the "police raids wrong unit and shoots owner" happenings.
What is happening is still far from OK, any instance of racism is one too many, but the problems here are a bit more nuanced than what is in general shared on a public, overly-Americanized forum.
And in case you are American/Canadian/Australian, can I please point back to whatever is still happening to your native population? Not a single country is free from blame from what they did to other or their own nations. Call me butthurt, but I'm getting quite a bit tired of getting called out on the Congo on every single thread mentioning Belgium while that was mostly, originally one man's doing. Again, nuance, I know more stuff happened afterwards, but it's not relevant to this thread.
I don't care about your personal level of culpability or whatever. This isn't a nationalistic game of finger pointing, you know that, right?
Like yeah, my country did genocides too. That's just reality. I'm just not so small minded that I think it reflects on me personally. The ruling class is always the numerical minority. Fuck Australia. Fuck every state. The difference is that I'm not out here trying to pretend like my dominators are any better than the rest.
Like if you don't want to have people constantly pointing out your country's violent racist crimes both historical and present, maybe stop trying to downplay them. Maybe people wouldn't say this to you so often if you listened for once and stopped volunteering that your country is actually pretty good in comparison. It. Is. Not.
You completely ignored the fact that your police are racist, and it's not against white people. Your "only my skin colour matters" line sounds one step away from the reverse racism crap that white supremacists love to bang on about. It's the most American thing you've said so far.
I think they meant "with only my skin colour matters" that Belgium has a higher rate of racism against other skin colour than just black people. As a lot of the bigotry is also cultural, so more against where you from specifically, instead of which colour is your skin. As it is in most of Europe. The North African and Arab community has got it bad since they are Muslim and brown and the biggest group of immigrants. So he definitely didn't ignore it. He only pointed out that there are some policies in place, so that the actions of racist cops at least cannot lead to the slaughter of innocent people.
Pointing out the differences is not as bad as you think. It high lights what policies and changes can at least minimize the effect of racism. Just saying everything and everyone is racist, independent of the impact of bad and good policies, will just create a hyper cynisme that it is all shit and any change doesn't matter.