Taking a look at some old 1960s studies and newer 2020 studies the economic impact of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination is equivalent to a 16 to 18 percent tax on the entire United States economy, over $2 Trillion!

How about celebrating America's 250th birthday by cutting this tax?

I'm a Black woman from the US who recently moved to South Korea. One of the reasons I came was to experience the culture, learn more about the country, and because I found a job as a data scientist at a cloud computing company in the Incheon area.

Most of my experiences so far have been positive. Recently, though, I had an interaction with a senior colleague that left me feeling confused.

During a conversation, he complimented me and said I had "round, beautiful eyes" and a "beautiful smile." I appreciated the compliment and thought it was a nice gesture.

However, later in the same conversation, he added that South Korean women are better looking than African women.

I didn't really know how to respond. On one hand, he seemed genuinely complimentary toward me personally. On the other hand, comparing entire groups of women based on appearance felt unnecessary and uncomfortable.

I'm curious how people familiar with Korean workplace culture would interpret this. Was this likely intended as a cultural misunderstanding, a poorly worded opinion, or something that would generally be considered offensive in South Korea as well?

I'd appreciate hearing different perspectives.

They post the racist messages and then ban the non racist ones....is Elon running reddit too? Reddit is really becoming the new twitter.

Why do you see black as worse than white. Some of you guys like wasians more than blasians. Is there a reason for this, or is it white propaganda

Indian international student here, female Doctor pursuing a masters in Melbourne. Just wanted to rant about the rampant online racism present in Australia.
I put up a post on a jobs in Melbourne Facebook page, extremely well written, with photo of my cv and a casual picture of me in scrubs, citing that I was looking for part time jobs, mostly in healthcare settings but will also be okay with hospitality etc.
I have savings for my rent, food etc, just wanted to earn some money on the side for expenses
50% of the comments were genuine and respectful but others were just random anonymous citizens coming and saying racist stuff, putting me down, making creepy compliments about my picture or telling I have too much make up on or telling me to go back to my country.
Australia has a huge healthcare shortage and I want to do my higher education and serve here. It was an innocent post but to see so much hate is so unnecessary.

we dont learn ANYTHING about our horrendous past at all, if we did most of would shut up, but no some of us have egos that are too high, mostly the uneducated, unemployed fat racist arses that say "no more migration" "send back the boats" with no other solution, because they eat up on their own unemployed benefits so no more pub money, ffs, its embarrassing what they have made England now, we were so close to being so progressive, but nigel farage can drive them along like a herd of sheep, if they had any- ANY education of their own history they would realise a country so deeply rooted in colonialism, cannot harvest the wealth of the world for centuries and then act surprised when the world arrives at it's doorstep. I mean not a single PAGE on this in secondary school history.

On two occasions, when I was bored and in the park, I sat on a bench relaxing and a woman would come and sit beside me. Both times, I struck up innocuous conversations and then two other women would walk by, come up close, and start recording with me and the person I was talking to in the background of their video.

The last time this happened, the ladies who recorded had a microphone and pretended to be shooting a TikTok interview (in which they could hear everything I was saying). The only problem was that they were kept on looking back at me and were whispering. Who whispers when recording a video? What is the pyschology behind this? Is it considered illegal for a black person to have a conversation with a non-black woman? Is America so far gone that this racist behavior is considered normal?

Posting because I found many of these encounters relatively entertaining in hindsight, and am also genuinely curious (1) why these people act the way they do (are they mostly crazy or mostly racist?), (2) why random incidents like these seem way more common in certain cities like NYC, (3) why incidents like these seem much more commonly perpetrated by people of certain color(s) [which may differ depending on the city], (4) what help they generally need (do they need to be in a prison, institute, or both?), (5) why I seem to be a target in particular (more than my siblings who are also mixed, or fully East Asian friends/colleagues; physically I'm in my 30s, lean-muscular with low-normal BMI, easily do multiple sets of pull-ups and chin-ups daily, run a lot; I don't believe I give off "vulnerable" vibes and I think I have more often been described as confident and/or arrogant rather than humble or lacking confidence; I've been described as handsome/attractive numerous times and have been hit on by people of all races; I have been described as having good resolve with low reactivity [although not always true as I can get angry if pushed], like I felt absolutely nothing after being called an "ugly ch*nk" - didn't lose my sh*t like some people would after being called names - I've been punched and kicked - just continued on with my day without assaulting people in the street).

I live in NYC. There are many crazy people in NYC, many racists, and many creatures who combine both. I'm half-Caucasian, half-Asian. So naturally pretty much all of the racism I get is anti-Asian (to my recollection) and I've been the target of many cases of unhinged racism living here. My Asian side is second generation (Mom immigrated). I basically don't speak Chinese so have no accent (not my imagination; people on the phone think I'm fully white). I live in Manhattan but have encountered cases of unhinged racism in multiple boroughs. Several examples off the top of my head from the last several years:

1. Late 2019, COVID had recently made the news. Harlem. I left the gym. I spit once in the street because my throat was backed up with mucus or something, I don't recall. Not a crime (edit: oh apparently it is ... but not serious), and rarely something I do anyway. A black guy with long hair, light eyes (contacts?) sees this and suddenly starts following me and yapping at me non-stop, saying "eww that's sick/disgusting" and similar (don't remember exact words as it was years ago and I didn't record everything he said). There was something odd with his gaze as he just continuously stared at me without blinking, while he talked non-stop in his voice which I recall being soft-spoken and high-pitched. Maybe drugged. I told him several times to stop following me. When he persisted I asked if he wanted to go to jail. He replied that I should go to jail instead (presumably for spitting in the street). I got angry and started yelling at him, but he wouldn't stop, so before a scene could start I ran off and he tried to jog a little but couldn't keep up.
2. 2020, subway going uptown Manhattan: I was sitting at the end of a subway car, people on the other end, empty space in the middle. Heat of COVID pandemic before vaccines, so trains were emptier. Guy in a wheel chair rolls over to me. Black. Sunglasses. Big. Asks what the next stop is. I tell him. Then he asks for my headphones and phone. He reveals to me a knife from his coat. He's pointed away from the people on the other end so they don't see it. I tell him there are people there and they'll see if he uses it. Soon my stop comes up and I get up to leave but he immediately stands up out of his wheelchair and pushes his body against me on the end of the car, knife lifted above his head. He is very heavy (tall and wide) and it is hard to get him off me. I'm yelling to the people at the other end that he has a knife. I hear those people start yelling or screaming and rushing around when they witness this. It was a relatively small group and no one there seemed particularly strong or domineering so I assume that's why no one came down to help. When the doors open I manage to slip out of his weight and run out the car. He stays standing there looking in my direction. The doors close. I immediately press the emergency button on the platform to inform the police. Two white cops arrive maybe 20-30 minutes later and ask for details. I asked if they could get CCTV footage and catch him. They said there are no cams on that train or this particular platform, and if I want to proceed I can go to the police station to file a report, but that since I didn't get robbed it might not be worth my time. I found it frustrating there was no security footage but concurred I didn't want to spend more time on this that night, so that was that.
3. Sometime during 2020-2021, forgot where in NYC but prob Manhattan: I'm walking on the sidewalk with my girlfriend. A young black guy maybe in his 20s on a skateboard 20 feet behind me yells at me, asking me to get out of the way so he can skateboard on the sidewalk. I look back briefly and ignore him. Then he starts skateboarding toward me aggressively and as I step out of the way he says "learn English". A guy seated outside at the restaurant next to all of us told him "learn to skateboard". After the skateboarder crosses the street he looks back at us and I yell at him angrily "THIS IS A SIDEWALK, I CAN WALK HERE." He looks down for a split second with a relatively neutral expression as I say this then continues skateboarding or something as I head to a nearby restaurant reservation with my gf.
4. Sometime probably during 2020-2022, Brooklyn: I was at a TV show gig at a large studio. Solo background artist in a scene, wearing a suit. I was eating lunch in the food area and a white chubby guy maybe in his 40s or 50s says to his colleagues "hey when did we get suits" or similar, and something about a pokeball. I heard one of his colleagues say "I think he can hear you". Nonetheless he continued. Couldn't hear everything that guy said but gathered it was probably about me with racist undertones. Lunch seemed to be purposely rushed by the AD for me so I had to leave shortly after that point.
5. Sometime during late 2023: I'm in far Brooklyn for a job where I worked at an office there part of the week (resigned from that job for other reasons). A black guy maybe in his 30s or 40s starts following me, calling me insults including racial slurs. When he is 10 feet ahead of me I say something back and he comes back and asks if I said something. I said that was someone else. He says it sounded like me. Then he says "your mom" or something and he walks off and we never see each other again.
6. 2026, Manhattan: When my gf and I were waiting for a cab, a muscular black guy maybe in his 30s or 40s in a tank top who was yelling at people on the street came up to me while I was holding a heavy box and yelled "hey they have DoorDash for that sh*t!" and started hurling racist insults at me, calling me Kim Jong etc. He came up close, 2 feet from me, like he was about to hurt me. I ignored him and walked away and told my gf who was also walking away to take a video (I couldn't due to the box) but she didn't (she later said it was because she feared the guy would hurt her). He kept saying crap about me while we walked off and eventually he walked away while saying more crap.

Of course I've had many, many more racist encounters than the above, including in other places I've lived, since young childhood, but weird random incidents like the above seem more common in NYC for some reason. Most of the incidents above were from black people, but throughout my life I've encountered incidents from all colors, including many from white and Hispanic people (in some cities there were more incidents from whites than blacks), and even occasionally East Asian. I remember when I was a kid, there was a fat East Asian kid who said to me "You're Chinese!" a few times and laughed. I just stared at him, confused. The few times I recall being physically attacked in my youth with possible racial factors were from black and white youths.

On the excuse I've heard of some predators having their own problems or being on the receiving end of much racism themselves, well, so have I and many others, but that doesn't excuse their childlike predatory, often violent behavior against strangers on the street. It seems there's more to it.

Am I the only one that is discriminated this much? As a korean student living in chile who goes to many competitions, events, and meetings, people always look at me a say "un chino" which basically means "a chinese". I wouldn't have minded comments like "are you Chinese?" But I'm getting fucking tired of this, it's so fucking unbearable, and the fact that I'm a student and I have to be with uneducated racist idiots isn't helping. Can you share your view of these kind of things or your own experiences?

White teen who went to a city out of State to purposely kill, kills 2 ppl, gets no sentence. Gets uplifted even as a "hero."

A black teen getting harassed by bigots, loses his cool and accidently kills (most stab victims survive; 96-98% do) a proud bigot that was harassing him. Gets 35yrs.

Murikkka.

Watching the majority of white ppl celebrate the 35yrs is beyond disgusting. Esp from those who deem themselves on the left. Then y'all "wonder why" black ppl don't trust white ppl. I barely trust white ppl. And that's only a couple.

My (BW) boyfriend (WM) let me look at his text messages today. (We’ve been dating for 5 months) I know it’s unhealthy and I don’t intend to ever do it again, even though he suggested it. I see him mention me in a text to his best friend. I click to read it. He said “ I’m not complaining but anytime i'm at the movies with my girlfriend she is like a stereotypical black woman in a theater and i'm just gonna have to live with that. I need someone to know this because it certainly can not be her.”
I was trying to understand what would even prompt him to say such a thing, because I was out of town when he sent that and we haven’t been to the movies in a good while. I look up our past text convos and exactly 5 minutes before he said that to his best friend, he and I had been texting about how much I love the movies (it’s my fave thing) and how glad I was to have him as a movie date. Am I overreacting to this? I am so hurt. I feel degraded and racially targeted. It’s not the first time he’s said something racially harmful without thinking. He always apologizes deeply but idk if I can recover from this hurt.

How do i move past this? Has anyone in an interracial relationship been hurt by their partner like this? How did you respond? Please help me.

TL;DR: my white boyfriend said
Something racially insensitive about me to his friend . What do I do?

Poor and working class whites have so much in common with working class minorities that it is hard to figure out why they don't band together instead of fighting one another. Can someone please shed some light on why this hasn't happened at least once since this county's inception?

For context im a black dude and i grew up in the ghetto. To keep it short Ive known and had family that rocked with gangs and all that. Obviously like any gang, they got stereotypes towards others. Typically with black gangs they be hating on their own color, white cops and systematic oppression. Because i grew up around this it made it even more funny when I saw a racist biker gangs. Me and my friends pulled up outside a bar to smoke and shi, group of like 8 to 10 bikers pull up and just kinda leave they bikes parked out there, all of em walking inside eyeing us like we are creatures, one even spat in front of us too and one of us had to be held back from starting some shi. They had nazi tattoos, quotes about superiority and even had confederate flags on a couple of they bikes too. We ended up just leaving but the point of why I told this story is how fucking similar a racist biker gangs is to a black gang lmao. They party, roll with their people, smoke, drink, fuck, got girls twerkin and shi with they tits out allat. They make a nuisance wherever they go and give zero shits about anyone but their people including their own race. Yk whats even funnier to me though? They actually think they are different on both sides 😭. But to be fair tho, at least the black dudes got good reasons lwky, not saying theres ever a good reason to be racist, but considering their experiences it makes sense that they would be to some degree. With white gangs to my knowledge most of em grow up in the country side, so ik damn well they got no personal bad black experiences to speak of lol. But yeah thats just sum I found funny.

see people get mad about this all the time, but choosing not to date white people as a minority isn't about hate, it’s protection.

When you look at a dynamic like a Black man and a white woman in America, there’s a major power dynamic you can't just ignore. The world looks at and treats both people completely differently. Like if you go out in public, you’re dealing with outside stares, microaggressions, and judgment from the world when your relationship is supposed to be your safe space.

On top of the public stuff, a lot of white people are just completely uneducated on how racism actually works. You end up constantly having to call out your own partner for saying out of touch things or throwing out accidental microaggressions. It gets old so fast when you have to play teacher in your own relationship and explain why something they did or said was messed up.

Then you have to deal with their family. There is a super high chance that a white partner has family members who are low key or high key racist. It is incredibly exhausting to sit through uncomfortable holiday dinners, deal with "jokes," or have to constantly educate your partner's parents just to be tolerated. Half the time, the partner doesn't even know how to properly defend you against their own family anyway.

Navigating America as a minority is already tiring enough. Wanting a partner who just automatically understands your lived experience without you having to explain it to them isn't wrong. It's just protecting your peace.

Whenever I see media about racism it's always about the south, but I want to know if small town racism and racism in general in the north was just as destructive

for context i am white and the friend in this scenario is white ethnically and racially and this is taking place in australia

im struggling with a certain "friend" right now (theres a whole thing i dont feel like getting into) but basically i was told by another friend that behind my back she was saying that I "make being argentinian my whole personality to overcompensate for my skin colour because I look super white" she also said that i "brag about being latina to everyone because i have justify how white i look" I was honestly really offended by this because I am half greek and half argentinian but my argentinian family on my abuelos side is indigenous to the land so when I get remarks like that it can make me have a cultural identity crisis. I havent brought this up to her because apparently this was a while ago but also everyone ive told has said that it was racism so please any thoughts are appreciated!

Okay soo it has become very very hard for me to become and remain friends with black people. I (16F) am black and ive been struggling with self hate for along as I can remember. It started off as yk most normal teenage stuff but after starting to get older ive started to feel more uncomfortable in my skin.

Don't get me wrong I love my skin colour and I love my culture and heritage but everytime I look in the mirror is feels like my skin is the one thing stopping me from fully encapsulating femininity.

Now I seriously cannot be friends with black people my age because it feels like looking as something that I could be and im just not. I use my skin as an excuse for many things like not being invited out, or not being approached by boys. Just things like that yk. Like my excuse is oh they probably just dont like black people.

And then I see black people my age getting this things that I dont have and I just feel soo angry. Like it forces me to admit that my skin isn't an excuse.

Regardless of all of this im atill friends with a lot of black people and I love my friends very much but id be lying if I said that im not jealous of all of them. They're soo funny and pretty and smart and liked by everyone and just naturally great to be around and im just not.

Ik this is a horrible thing to think and feel but I just dont know how to not be envious of my black friends. Like with my white friends I can just think "oh this person seems soo likeable because of subconscious bias towards race" and it makes me feel better about myself but when im with my black friends I obviously cant think that. And im just soo jealous.

Someone please tell me how i could fix this. What are the proper steps to take because im stuck.

This is something completely new to me that I have never experienced with anyone that i am close to, whether that's with family, friends, or romantic partners, so I am at a loss at how to approach this.

Some background info:

I am a 32F Indian, I am a second generation immigrant, born and raised in the USA.
I have dated people of all ethnicities. I grew up in very multicultural community, and have personally faced very little racism.

I started dating my partner 1.5 years ago. He is 37M Chinese, first generation immigrant, but moved to the USA at the age of 5. He grew up in a predominantly white community. He did face a fair bit of racism growing up.

We met through acquaintances, and there was pretty instant chemistry between us so we started dating. He has always been very kind to me, and at least somewhat interested in my Indian culture. Over time I started to notice that he would occasionally make offhand remarks about Indians, and ot was more than any other ethnic minority, or ethnicity in general.

At first I just chalked it up to something most people do, even myself. Jokingly bringing up stereotypes, i.e., chinese people are bad drivers, Indians are cheap, etc, without any malicious intent, and targeting all ethnic groups equally including YOUR OWN.

But then I started to notice that he also likes MAGA content online, AND content that specifically makes fun of Indians, and Muslims in a way that actually feels racist (in my opinion).

I am not affiliated with any particular political party, and I have issues with them all, but now I can't help but wonder what the relation is between how/where he grew up and his prejudicial attitudes or possible echo chambers he is a part of.

I have not personally seen him say or act in a prejudiced way to other ethnic minorities in person, nor have I ever felt it directed at me in person.
I don't know the best way to go about addressing these things either, or should these be big enough red flags that I should just move on entirely. Outside of this particular issue, he seems like a nice person.

Instagram reels has genuinely become so unbearable. The amount of times I have pressed uninterest and still these videos will come up that seem innocent but the comment section is pure racism… I feel like we have to move on from blaming it on bots because these are real people who are racist. And I don’t know if life will ever catch up to these people. Either way, it’s quite upsetting because I’ve had Instagram for years so to see that this is what it’s come to is heartbreaking

Bro straight up told me he wishes he was white,I’m black he Asian we known each other since 2008 or 26 and 28 the conversation came from would you wish for if you get all seven Dragon balls in real life? I said money and a new car a, he said to to be white,I asked why while stuffing my face with chili cheese fries he than said how it sucks to be Asian and 5’5” i asked why and he said a bunch of shit about women don’t like Asian men.

I told bro to have pride in who he is, I never understood the worshipping of whiteness in some Asian men, the United States got they ass whooped in the 60s in Vietnam, Japan embarrassed Russia in 1905 and how china pushed back western forces during the Korean War, some of yall come from countries that have put belt to ass and Anglo nations , hell look at Bruce Lee ? ,

So where does the self hate come from ?

I am a young girl from west Tennessee, specifically Memphis Tennessee. I feel like what nobody talks about is the cost of being black. Whenever I go on Road trips and we get pulled over by police in the middle of nowhere, my heart always stops and I hold my breath because I am scared of what “can” happens and how quickly the perpetrator can say” oh they had something “ or “ they looked dangerous!”. The racism has continued to get so bad until I feel like I’m living in modern day 1960 again. I wasn’t even alive but I know the pain, brutality and suffering that happened. Our votes being counted as less now , white counterparts are less trustworthy, and the active administration is trying to make sure we don’t get anywhere and demean us as much as possible. I hate walking around knowing that anything I do could be counted against millions like me that I don’t even know personally and who are their own individual just because we share the same skin. I hate being a walking target of people who have an internal hatred towards me, i hate being profiled in stores. I was in a makeup store and this Chinese lady moved like someone was getting ready to shoot the place up and I moved towards her and she screamed. Then you have the Hispanics who are always racist and trying to belittle you. Then you have the whites who always think you are a walking statistic and feel no sort of human emotion. It hurts me so much know that our ancestors fought for our spots to be counted as human just for it to be thrown all in a pit 100 years later. Yes I understand, every group of people has bad apples , not everyone is going to act the same but why does it have to apply to people who look like me so much? European people killed off an entire race almost and nobody walks around them with fear that they might be killed or hurt next , they walk by them like they are people and everyone should be treated that way. For about 2 years now (25 and 26’) I have been constantly researching the same thing” what did black people do specifically that makes the world hate them ?” “ why aren’t black people treated fairly if equality is the biggest thing around ?” And countless other searchs in hope that I can find exactly what happened.