I understand that you feel offput by my statements. Afterall, there’s a lot of people who try to downplay the problem of white-on-black oppression, or the oppression that women face. But I assure you, that’s not my intent. The research was done in areas where the culture is white-dominated and male-dominated. However, if it was a problem specifically with white males, those statistics would hold true globally.

They don’t.

In Japan, racism is mainly perpetrated against the mainland Japanese. Even the Okinawans (the true ethnic Japanese) are oppressed by the majority of Japanese (who are actually of Chinese descent). In Pakistan, the majority of oppression is done by the Islamic Pakistanis on gays, christians, whites, and jews.

You can look up these statistics yourself, so you know I’m not just cherrypicking data.

The fact is, racism, nationalism, religious oppression, sexism, etc. are all problems, but the face of those problems change depending on which group is dominant. It’s not a white thing, it’s not a male thing, although it’s mainly a white-male thing in the U.S. My point isn’t to downplay that racism against blacks is a problem, nor to downplay that violence against women is a problem. My point is to highlight that if we do manage to address it, we still haven’t fixed the problem, and the oppression will just take another form. One decade the primary oppression was focused on blacks, the next on women, the next on gays, the next on immigrants. You go back another few generations and it was the Irish immigrants. You go back further and it was the native Americans. You go back further to the dark ages Europe, and it was focused on people who were left handed or had a third nipple or were ‘the wrong kind’ of Christian. We laugh at the left handed and third nipple ones now, but in the time period, it was potentially a death sentence to be found out that you were left handed.

The deeper problem is humanity’s tendency for those who are part of a ‘favored majority’ to find themselves frustrated with their life situation and to take out those aggression on those in a targeted minority.

The point is, yes, we need to address current US sexism and racism, those problems are bad and need addressed like a serious sore from an illness needs treated. But unless we also address the underlying illness, the tribal mentalities of groups and the general ‘us vs them’ mentality, we’ll just end up addressing sore points till the end of time without ever getting to the cause.

Or, let me put this another way to make it clear:

In that study, 60% of that violence was against women. However, 100% of that violence was against people.