cuz 1. you're privileged as a white person to get away with saying that shit without people getting mad at you and 2. there's always this implication that they're "one of the good ones", as if dumping on other white people somehow makes them better
the big problems are structures and behaviors that perpetuate existing inequality, such as nepotism and hiring people as "culture fits"; generational wealth; explicit attempts to disenfranchise people of color; etc.
this feels like it’s a weird mirror of how a lot of conservatives in the us view racism as something that only exists on an individual level, instead of a system of oppressive structures baked into the fabric of society.
i don't think it's really just us conservatives, this was honestly how i saw most discrimination until possibly a few years ago, and i did consider myself left wing at the time
being like, a vaguely sheltered british white person it was really not difficult to not quite understand what discrimination was outside of just the individual stuff, wouldn't be surprised at all if this is how lots of people still see it on some level regardless of how woke they are or whatever (i mean shit idk i probably still do so some extent)
hate to be an annoying school hater or whatever but god this really feels like something school should've taught lol, like the idea that oppression can be infinitely more complex than the individual level probably should've been obvious to me but it wasn't!!! and good lord it has affected the whole way i view shit!!! surely this should be taught to everyone as standard
