I feel like race is pretty irrelevant to this story. Boy gets lost, locals help him find his way. The fact he was white and they were black is only relevant because we’re expected to relate to the boy’s fear of black people.
It’s relevant if we assume it’s america, because the white suburban middle-class american assumption is that all poor black people will murder and kill you and have no human decency. When of course, the truth is most folks in these places are decent and the crime is minority of the residents who are in gangs and other organized activities.
And trust me, tons of these people exist. I meet live in a city full of folks who claim to be liberal progressives but are utterly terrified to be in the same restaurant as anyone black. The racism is really really deep here, esp among those who claim they aren’t racist because they watched Get Out and read White Fragility, so they can’t possibly be racist!
But people are dumb monkeys and fear is one of our most powerful/driving emotions, to the point it’s the an amazing tactic for fueling brain-rot political takes and policies based in ‘black people are all bad people’ nonsense. And also, more lately, latino immigrants from south america whose skin color has any significant melanin.
Even if they are criminals, they don’t want cops on their turf. The best neighbors I’ve ran into were deep in the ghetto on a street with 3 sell houses.
The feeling you guy might get in “hoods” is the same feeling I, as a European get all over the US. I mean completely unrelated to race, just because many of you have guns and there’s much more violence and insanity in general.
That being said. Nobody tried to rob me and most people were very friendly. There where a few scammers though, I witnessed some disturbing stuff on the metro and I also witnessed a woman attacking a guy in a car which resulted in having her arm being stuck in the window and being dragged a few meters by the car.
I think this is just normal. I felt the same way traveling in Europe. I think it’s just the combination of being in an unfamiliar place and standing out as a traveler. A lot of scammers target travelers intentionally.
I experienced the opposite feeling, spent my high school summers in London and always felt like laughing when people would warn us off rough neighborhoods that were safer than the safe neighborhoods where I was from.
It has gotten much less violent here since then.
1980s to 2000
Believe it or not this still left us rougher than the US in general or even Florida in general. But look, since 2000
Oh shut the fuck up and go bitch about some roma
You had more action on your vacation than I have living here. Granted, I don’t know where you went.
you always experience more when you’re traveling than when you’re standing still
Dixon, MO is a wild place.
Fake: OP left their house.
Gay: OP (claims to) get into a car with a group of guys.Gay: OP is taken for a ride by a group of guys
Ah fuck. That’s so much better. lol
You know, while there are places you don’t want to get lost in if you’re white, they aren’t as common as the racists make it out to be. Now, I’ve worked in a couple of those neighborhoods, but even then once the folks literally coming out of bushes knew I was there to provide care to someone, that was the end of it.
Being real, my cracker ass grew up in a black neighborhood. You know how many times I got jumped by black folks? Zero. Wanna guess how many times I did by white folks? Well, only three, twice by the same assholes, but that’s still telling, aint it?
My personal experience? Only time you’ll run into trouble for being a cracker is if its a heavy drug area and you ain’t buying. But those folks will be just as harsh to anyone, so I dunno if that counts or not.
Most violence is intraracial.
All human on human violence is intraracial. That is because human genetic variation does not support the division into different races.
Are you confusing “race” and “species”?
Wikipedia:
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
They’re making a point about how race is a human construct created to separate humans for the purpose of power. The idea of race didn’t exist until the 1750’s or so when Linneaus categorized people based on geographic location and racist stereotypes.
Right, go tell that to Herodotus when he was talking about various other races of peoples and how barbaric they were compared to the Greeks, in 425BCE.
Or just keep making up shit that race is a modern European white man only thing. Don’t let the the rest of history and the other cultures of the world inconveniently disprove your stupidly modern euro centric view of the world.
Very much so, statistically
By saying intra instead of inter, you’re suggesting it’s within the races, instead of between (different) races. I choose to believe this was intentional and witty
I used Intra correctly.
I know, I was literally saying you used it correctly. At the time of my comment you had several downvotes, I assume because people misunderstood what you were saying, which is why I added my comment for clarity.
That’s how language works. Congratulations?
It aligns with the context and their post history suggests they know how to use words. There is nothing bad with explaining rhetorics, but doing it like this comes through as belittling.
At the time of my comment, they had several downvotes. I posted my comment for clarity because it seemed like people misunderstood OPs comment
Meh, it stopped me from having to google something i already knew just to confirm it. Looks fine to me
Given that the races aren’t homogenously mixed, there is no way that it wouldn’t be true that most violence is intra rather than inter just by sheer proximity. These are just the correct words to use.
Your point is…?
Racial profiling really is the lowest iq shit possible; equal to walking thru a nursery with a color chart and a labelmaker. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to ignore everything you yourself have ever experienced, received and taken for granted and presume the same facts of life don’t apply to everyone. No one is born bad. Even trump was a human first. Apologies for rant.
Racial profiling is bad. Profiling based on where you are is not necessarily bad. If I were to find myself in a bad part of town and a group of guys came up to me, it wouldn’t matter if they were black, Hispanic, white, or Asian; I’m going to be nervous. Meth and other hard drugs know no race.
This is easier to say in a comment than in real life
I mean that’s not a bad take away at least in sketch areas, the people living there generally don’t want trouble
Yep. And confused white boy who just straight up admits he is lost?
He very probably is just lost, and thus isn’t looking to start anything.
Mutually beneficial solution to all involved is just… help him get home.
Win win.
