We arent the us, no worries :')
The problem is that extremists are everywhere and with the easy access of information, things from other places are happening here too, even if they are not applicable ( like police voilence or blm protests ). That said, fuck those extremists, whatever their background is :')
Also, this article sucks. It doesnt even explain what the new sexual education is about
I’m sorry… you don’t think police violence and BLM are applicable in Belgium?
Police violence is endemic wherever the police exist, and I find it hard to believe that racism against black & brown people isn’t a problem in the place that ruled the Belgian Congo until 1960.
I wonder if I just google “belgian police racism”…
Oh. Oh no.
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.
