I guess what I was trying to get at. Why isn’t there a NAAFAP. For All People? Having specialized groups kind of seems we are going back to segregation again. Why not everyone one be equal and everyone should be happy.

  • cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    White people as a group are aren’t marginalized in America. I’d bet that the other groups you listed have similar organizations.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    They do exist in all sorts of ways, not sure why you believe they don’t. There are even specific groups for each individual flavor of “white” (Irish, Italian, etc.). Typically, groups like this become less active as they become less repressed/disadvantaged (people no longer need to organize for safety or to secure their rights once society broadly accepts them and they are no longer under threat). Irish, for example, were once not regarded as “white”, same for Italians.

    It’s the same ignorant bullshit people have been doing for thousands of years, there’s always some sort of out group when people in charge are looking for a scapegoat.

      • erin@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 days ago

        While institutionalized racism affects many different groups, Black people faced slavery, Jim Crow, and heavy resistance to the civil rights movement by both the government and communites. These did not only affect Black people, but did disproportionately target them over others. The history and scale of institutionalized racism against Black people in the US is just massive, despite the horrible treatment of other ethnic groups, and so the organizations fighting for their civil rights are more prevalent.