What are some obvious racist and chauvinist things that are totally normalized?

"Violence isn't the answer" regarding Palestine
i'm sure the savage arabs haven't heard of non-violence thanks for letting them know. It's just weird eugenicist shit, because these white people would also be violent had they been born under the conditions of colonial subjugation
- The ENTIRE fucking reason America claims it was allowed to exist is that George Fucking Washington and his associates were SUFFICIENTLY OPPRESSED by the British government, to the point where it became permissible to fire 70 caliber lead balls into soldiers skulls.
  But black and brown people should just fucking take it I guess
  
  Not to mention, the american revolution happened because the settlers wanted to keep their slaves, keep expanding their colonies and genociding indigenous people, and didn't want to pay taxes on shit. And it's permissible and noble for them to revolt under those conditions
  Meanwhile it's bad when Palestinians rise up when they have been refugees and ethnically cleansed for 75 years
  
  That happened a long time ago! We're so much more sophisticated now (no we're not just pulling the ladder up after ourselves).
- This also goes with the States. we learned about MLK jr. a lot in school and he "peacefully protested." But we weren't taught much about Malcolm X or Fred Hampton because they were "violent thugs".
  We weren't taught that King was a socialist but some classes called Malcolm X and Hampton socialist or communist. Which rolled into how the Black Panthers were "a violent gang" instead of a group of inner city poor people doing mutual aid for impoverished neighborhoods and poor schools.
  
  They didn't even like MLK back when he was alive.
  
  Meanwhile groups like the Italian mobsters get glorified.
- And Palestinians never tried non violent resistance no just want to kill kill kill
  
  Sure would be embarrassing for libs if there was some sort of Great March of Return within the last 5 years where civilian protests were shot with live ammo.
- "Violence isn't the answer" period.
  It's fine to systematically oppress and destroy people slowly in a system designed to harness their survival drive to sacrifice their labor value but if those people realize what's happening and fight back it's unacceptable.
  Also the whole idea of people saying "violence is never the answer" ignoring the entirety of human nature and calling into question why every single nation has a military.
  
  Violence is pretty much always the answer (in an organized, strategic manner. No
  )
  
  It's a pretty common assumption that if people act antisemitic while fighting back against an oppressor, their struggle should be discarded and condemned by the international community. Thoughts?
- because these white people would also be violent had they been born under the conditions of colonial subjugation
  Gestures at the American War of Independence
  And that was just the diet version of colonial subjugation.
- When anyone tells you violence isn't the answer, they are either ignorant non-thinkers or they are trying to manipulate you. Throughout the history of the world, violence has always been the answer. This place sucks.
- They got brain-washed by a combination of comfort and "peaceful" eastern religious influence by the likes of Gandhi.

Treating the usian "founding fathers" as democracy-loving freedom fighters
- Their deification in general gets on my nerves. Everything they've ever said or written is treated as infallible words of god and nobody may ever dispute them.
- I suppose the British considered them to be rebels, insurrectionists, or maybe even terrorists. It's all a matter of perspective isn't it?
  
  The British press and government explicitly called them terrorists.
  But the other side of it is just as laughable. Whenever the framers of the constitution wrote about what they were trying to do, they would endlessly hand-wring about how bad it would be for everyone to have a say in government. They thought only rich land-owning men had proved themselves worthy to hold power. You know, them and all their friends. The american "revolution" had more in common with a coup than any sort of real liberatory movement.
  
  I consider them both to be colonialist, genocidal freaks deserving only of a pit
  
  This is true. I wonder what the Iroquois thought of George Washington
  
  if I hold you in chains and whip you for not picking cotton fast enough for me, would that just be a "matter of perspective" you smug liberal?

I found out not too long ago that apparently in polite voteblue society it's still okay to talk about countries being "civilized" where "civilized" essentially means "white". I am used to chauvinism, but that one really got to me (it was about Russia's invasion being the first time in a long time that there was a war between two "civilized" countries).
- I remember that headline during the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine "This is the first war of my lifetime between civilized countries". So obvious what they meant.
  
  I remember that headline during the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine "This is the first war of my lifetime between civilized countries". So obvious what they meant.
  I kept hearing it's the first war in europe since ww2 and this feels like it goes along the same lines but even weirder
  
  Yugoslavia got its civilized status revoked before it got bombed, apparantly.
  
  I really hated how people talked about "war in Europe!" as something extra horrible and tragic, unlike when it is brown people being at war which doesn't warrant the same moral outrage.
- Man, is it so hard for people to understand that different communities in the world are at different stages of development and/or just have different ways of operating than is typical of their own areas?
  Society isn't homogeneous and it's pretty basic knowledge

Racial "preferences" in dating. No matter how they cut it, it's racist. Yet people will say "it's ok to have preferences!"
Yeah sure.... I mean back in the day many people "preferred" to not eat with black ppl.... jesus fucking christ the racial preferences in dating really ticks me off (especially when you see someone who is otherwise "liberal" and "hates hate" date only white people)
- This is so so widespread that I am very curious about it.
  One hypothesis I have is that people believe their sexual inclinations are completely separate from social and cultural influence. That the sexual preferences are somehow innate or beyond influence--even though they clearly are heavily influenced.
  At the very least fucking keep it to yourself that you don't date black women or prefer dating east asian women you weirdo agghhh
- I like and dislike traits that are strongly stereotypical of certain races
  Please tell us what these traits are
  
  I'm kinda torn on this one. For me, I like and dislike traits that are strongly stereotypical of certain races. So much so that, if I were a less self aware person, I'd just express that preference plainly.
  I mean yeah, I get you, sometimes I'd prefer to live in a neighborhood that didn't have any of those "pesky blacks and hispanics," but I'd rather not express that plainly either, so I'll just secretly choose to live in a segregated white neighborhood. I'm REALLY TORN ON THIS ONE...
  
  You realize that people within each "racial category" can have completely different features.
  
  I can smell your unkempt neckbeard through the screen.
  
  you should be shot
  
  I remember when lemm.ee used to be the main source of mask-off libs around here, but it seems like dbzer0 has taken its place lately.
  
  Kys

"I got jipped" or however it's spelled. We say it all the time in America, but a euro transplant informed me that it's basically a slur for gypsies.
- FYI the best term for the ethnic group is Roma.
  
  True. Gypsy itself is a slur too, right? Sorry, idk much and European bigotry aside from the meme where Europeans scold us for being a racist country, then turn around and say they want to exterminate the Roma.
  
  This is official too. It was decided at the world Roma congress in the 1970s that this is the name they wanted to go by as a community.
- When I grew up I never thought anything about where the term jipped ( maybe it's spelled gypped? ) came from, but after hearing jew used as a verb in the same context got me thinking about where the term came from. Not all epiphanies feel good.
  
  Always pay close attention to the epiphanies that don't feel good
  
  I thought it was a reclamation of the phrase, kind of like "Jerry rigged"
- The term "g*psy" being used casually, in a way simply used to just talk about the Roma people, and it being the only term most people know for them, is also another racist thing that's normalized.
  
  It's so normalized that they use it all the time in kids cartoons over here.
  
  It's also abysmally ignorant. Roma have been in Europe for centuries, but they originally migrated from India. It was assumed by medieval Europeans that they were from Egypt, because Egypt is in the Bible, and India isn't, so they all knew about Egypt. So they called the the G-slur as a proxy of "Egyptian"
- Oh yeah. I remember learning about this one. Living in America, I don't think a lot of us are aware of Roma people, and thus don't know it's a racial slur.
  
  I blame Notre Dame. That movie made me think it was more of like a job description like a traveling merchant. I didn't know it referred to a group of people until I had internet.

”Declining birthrates” is considered a normal thing to talk about, even though it only refers to white people.
Condescending attitudes towards any non-
country, like I remember when the US left Afghanistan and a lot of people said stuff along the lines of ”We helped them so much and they still didn't become a good liberal democracy!”.
- ”Declining birthrates” is considered a normal thing to talk about, even though it only refers to white people.
  I encourage you not to read any comments sections about declining birthrates in Japan, South Korea, or China. They invariably read like cattle farmers complaining about a bad year, except usually cattle farmers aren't chomping at the bit to go fuck the cows.
  
  cattle farmers aren't chomping at the bit to go fuck the cows.
  Welllll…
  
  Yeah that part of Asia is NOT doing well. I think Japan has actually seen an uptick recently, but South Korea has had the same problem for a while now, and it's probably never getting better unless they get liberated by the DPRK.
- I will make 1 or 2 exceptions for the "muh birthrates" crowd, because I just listened to an absolutely heartbreaking interview with a school teacher in rural occupied korea who was lamenting that his school had been built in the 1960s and had rooms for 70-odd students per year, and his latest class had a total of 5 children in it, because cuck-Korea has had a total collapse in the amount of children that people are having. Obviously the proposed solution was not going to work, since Korea has banned all talk of improving society, but the story was still heartbreaking.
  
  Honestly, not having children kind of owns in a way, theres no way capitalism can compete with people completely giving up on it and life. It's just proving Marx right.
- That reminded me of a really odd 8th grade social studies moment. I'm Canadian and the teacher was talking about our low birth rates leading to an aging population, and he concluded that we should try to take in more immigrants to make up for the gap. Dude was a passionate lib that said 'democracy' in italics with a hand gesture (even funnier cause it was in French and he's Acadian descent, if you know the accent and speak French you'll know, if not I can't really get you there in text). We did a mock election on the day Harper got in, communists got 10% of the votes cause 3 of us voted for them.
  
  My class (5th grade social studies) did the same thing when Harper was elected, except the cons won in a landslide since our teacher was an extreme right wing borderline libertarian guy who taught the class "conservatism is when you keep all the money you make, and liberalism is when you give it to the government in taxes, and the more taxes you pay the more liberal it gets". I'll admit I fell for that completely wrong explanation (in my defense I was 12) and "voted" conservative, but thank god I got my shit sorted out throughout highschool and into university

This one gets me mad, but just the base assumption that our Asian comrades and homies are inherently good at STEM. To this day I still hear people that Asian dudes are good at math as if it were a profession passive bonus in a game. It's just so other-ing to me. It's just kinda one of those racists stereotypes that I wish died away.
- Good thing we've got Andrew Yang trying to build a political career around keeping that stereotype alive.
  
  Andrew Yang is a trailblazer breaking tropes because he's actually very stupid
  
  Exactly! It's so slimey, like bro why would you want to play into that? Why make it harder for other people like you so you can get what? Some votes?
  It's just plainly racist and gross, and I think it's uniquely gross towards Asian men as if they don't already have enough weirdo racist tropes they have to deal with. I say this is a black man, i feel for them

People seem to be fine with hating Chinese and Indians where I live
- When I found out Australians call telephone Chinese whispers I was surprised to find an instance of another country being even more casually racist than us
  
  what do you call the thing where you twist the skin on someone's forearm
  
  When I found out Australians call telephone Chinese whispers I was surprised to find an instance of another country being even more casually racist than us
  Don't worry,
  is there too
  They call it "arab telephone"
  
  It used to be called Chinese Telephone in North America. I was a kid during the transition.
- Straya (is also an example of a racist/chauvinist thing that is normalised)
  
  Yes this. It sucks here. Xi pls help us.
  
  I thought Straya was just Australia with some syllables removed. I don't know the context that makes it racist.

The police.
More specific answer, the very obvious racial stratification of any urban region in the US. How different demographics look from neighborhood to neighborhood and the clear relation to worse housing, education, everything really. But it seems very normalized.

Acting like the US is the only country with diversity and treating every other nationality in North America that isn't Canada like a race.
- Some people realize that the US is very big and lots of people immigrated to it, so of course it's a very diverse place but can't apply the same logic to China, Russia, India or Brazil.
  
  to be fair, our education system teaches that everyone emigrated from those places; however, the one i can't understand or be fair about is canada.

I always thought it was strange how widely accepted a statement like "I don't date [Race]" is. Like yeah, I get it, people have preferences and shit but you'd never hear anyone say something like "I don't want to be friends with [Race]" because that's unacceptably racist.
- bUt PeOpLe ArE aLlOwEd To HaVe PrEfErEnCeS!!!!!
  
  The funniest version of this is the white guy who defends pursuing only Asian women as a preference but complains that it's racist when they refuse to date him.
  I've known more than one of these.

porn
- It's not limited to racial hierarchies and fetishes, either. There are many videos upholding other unjust hierarchies as well, like landlords, cops, business owners, etc.
  
  Fr scrolling some of these titles makes me

This is pretty insignificant, but it fucking drives me nuts. Whenever a couple goes somewhere and takes the woman's car, the man drives. It's like some silly power dynamic that is built into all M/F relationships in the US.
- Me in my hetero cis relationship where my strong beautiful girlfriend drives everytime.
- Holy shit how defensive my mother's husband was over his NEED to ALWAYS be the driver, ESPECIALLY in his big truck, even as a child it confused me.
  
  being driven around is gay unless you pay for it then it's alpha because control fetish
- Coming out has made me realize there are so many little weird rituals and dynamics in straight relationships that just go totally unnoticed. Queer relationships are such a breath of fresh air
- I usually drive around town because my wife is often high as shit, but she usually drives on road trips because we get there several hours earlier.
  
  Your wife sound fuckin rad
- I prefer to be a passenger prince. I love looking out the window and making an airfoil with my hand.
- Lol this happens often with me but my partner & I both hate driving so it's an act of service more than anything.
- Would really appreciate it if somebody would convince my girlfriend to help defeat gender norms by letting me be passenger sometime.
- 100% opposite in my relationship. Wife hates other people driving. I love having a chauffer.
- My wife hates being a passenger and I basically only drive if she has a migraine or isn't present. I don't know why someone would have a hangup about it, it's nice.
- It's the little things like this that make me so thankful I got the parents I have. They've always split driving 50/50, or at least close enough that it never crossed my mind growing up that driving was the man's duty or whatever weird power trip some guys make it.
  Edit: also along the same lines, whenever you see a (outwardly hetero) couple on a tandem bike it's almost always the man out in front with the woman staring at his back
  
  My parents were divorced and both never dated or re-married, they sorta accomplished the same thing!
- Flexing and driving my boyfriends car because he gets tired.
- Out of my parents my dad is EASILY the worse driver, he doesn’t even put his seatbelt on half the time
- In my experience this is more on a case-by-case basis based on the couple in question. Some people just don't like to drive, and some other people really hate being a passenger while someone else is driving. Often it lines up that it can be win-win.
- My mom's (italian-american) husband is so on this tip. And he has to be the last person to order at a restaurant.
  
  That's a thing???
- I’m so happy my girlfriend prefers to drive, being high in the passenger seat is so much better. If I could never be behind the wheel of a car again I’d die happy.
- very true and usually, but not always, the man's fault
- I ask my wife to drive, no matter the car, but she only does it on long road trips. However, on long trips she'll drive more than half just so I drive the bad parts like Chicago or Munising.

I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.
This is pretty much how it works worldwide. Living in The Empire™ grants you that benefit. "The power of a US passport" is very well known. Every country could use American tourist money. It is absolutely another neo-colonial sort of relationship. I saw a documentary that shows that Jamaicans (or another Caribbean country) have a harder time getting into Jamaica than Americans do.
- At a lot of airports (eg Singapore) there is an expedited immigration check for 🇪🇺 / 🇺🇸 .
  Quite literally

Safety and process rigor when people talk about heavy industry. Shit like "300 people fall in a mineshaft every day in China it's normal" and "it's india they don't care about safety there" as some indictment of the contempt for safety because of culture or something.
No it's entirely based on your preconceived notions of these people. Truth is every plant ever is a massive safety concern, just that some are more amenable to cheap labour with lapses in safety, while others have shittons of money to throw to prevent all the disasters at the last moment. Seriously, it's surprising just how much of our infrastructure is barely scraping by without incident
- This infographic will never not be egg on the face of its creators.
- As someone who works in a "safety" focused industry, I hear stuff like this all the time. It's not entirely untrue that yes, working conditions in underdeveloped countries can be worse than in the West, but no one stops to examine why, it always comes across as calipers shit. Sometimes plainly so.
  
  It's so nice to hear someone agree that this shit is racist. I bring it up and it's constantly defended as "just a fact".
  Almost started to believe it wasn't racist :(
- Anytime you see shit like that just link them an article about Bhopal.
  Bunch of westerners tried to set a high score for ignoring safety regulations at the constant protest of the local workers which, predictably, ended with chemical warfare against a population center "which the westerners then refused to alert the locals to"
  
  I did not know about this incident. What the fuck.

"Israel".
- Claims to be called Isreal
  isn't real
  
  Yeah it's real: 'real'ly needs to be abolished.
  
  Isimaginary, even

Everyone pets Lalafells without permission.
Joking aside, the way people treat the British as experts because of their accents.
How immigrants from Europe/Americas are "expats" in developing nations. How Euro-American immigrants gentrify the neighborhoods and country they're in, treating the local populace as NPC servants to their narcissism and wealth.
- Eh the expats thing is more about whether you intend to stay long term/make an effort to assimilate.
  
  British guys who have been in Hong Kong for 20 years are expatriates. Chinese people who moved to Hong Kong 10 years ago are immigrants.
- The Lalafells need to stop running up to me and tapping my leg because they will never know the thinness of the air that my Viera's ears exist in on the daily then

One very normalized thing that always infuriates me is the way news headlines report on major disasters. It's always "Plane crashes in China, TWO AMERICANS DEAD", "Nuclear explosions blows up populated city, four Britons confirmed missing", like bitch all the people on that plane and in that city were valuable humans with valuable lives, not just people with the same colour passport as me.

Every time a local news channel covers a Black criminal (or even the idea of Black criminals, or hell, any Black person who can somehow be construed to be some sort of miscreant), they’re uniformly called a “thug” in every comment. Yeah it’s just self-censorship for the n word

cop shows

The passport thing was no longer the case when I went there in 2016ish. It used to be you could go about 15 miles into Mexico without a passport but when I last went in 2016, you had to have one just to cross in to Mexico, and they were inspecting the heck out of it, and visa was required to go more than a certain distance or stay. A lot of poor Americans live south of the border in San Diego area because it's all they can afford. Mexico was pissed at Trump and changed the rules.
I like your last point on the tax thing, that's so BS the way that money isn't equal per student. It should be state wide equal property tax and state-wide equal per student.
- I haven't left my country in so long, I'm curious about living near border regions (not aspirationally, though i would like to travel one day). I'm almost on an island within an island
- Ive walked into Mexico from San Diego without a passport in the last couple years, you can slip the guard a $20 to go without passport lol.

The way the beginning of the Ukraine war was treated.
- DAE le savage ruzzian orcs never seen toilets before??
  
  Human wave attacks were used in a desperate attempt to capture a Ukrainian asphalt plant. Russian scientists had never successfully figured out how to produce the material themselves. From returning soldiers the rest of the population was learning about paved roads for the first time and becoming restive. The leadership was feeling tremendous pressure.
- By Russian state media?
  
  I'm talking about libs and neocons Americans gleefully sharing combat footage of Russians and Ukrainians fighting, with Russians often on the receiving end of molotovs, bombs, javelins and shit; I personally find war footage disgusting and abhorrent and war is often fought between working class people brainwashed or conscripted into fighting wars on the behalf of oligarchs. . The way major companies pulled out of Russia and refused to service russian citizens, without actually being prompted by the United States. The way that every single company - even ones with zero connection or influence were like "we stand with ukranians in this trying time".
  Compare that to today and Palestinians.

How tf is running around your car a fire drill, and what do the Chinese have to do with it?
- Sigh... I was hoping it was something innocent, maybe an "egg corn"/acorn situation. But alas, it's racism all the way down. Smh

When a mayo says, "Meritocracy", they actually mean, "Every form of systemic oppression and violence ever conceived".
- The people in charge are the most deserving of power. As such, they can redefine “deserving of power” to mean whatever they want.

Whites

referring to northwest eurasia as a "continent"