Something about racism

Yes you got it, I am trying to get into a fight with the PC mob.

Racism seems to be the new buzz word, calling people racist, or labeling some comment as racist, mainly if the comment comes from the "white privileged", is the new normal. Everything is seen as racism, every white person is seen as racist...

I am not sure if I am brown enough or white enough to argument here, because black or brown people can call out if the comment is racist or not, white people must accept the "verdict" and apologise or accept being humiliated for the rest of their lives, or for the rest of the week.

So I am Portuguese living in the UK, and according to the current classification I see on the internet I might be what is called a brown person, I am not white as an English person and I am more dark than some Indian people, however I am European but I am also what the Americans call a "Latin" person because I speak a language that is exclusively derived from Latin, but also a French or an Italian are "Latin"... so here the "Latin" thing starts to cause some confusion because there are no French or Italian speaking countries in the Latin America and so the term "Latin" doesn't seem to apply to French or Italian people, but hey, even I don't know if I am a Latin...

What I have to say, as a Portuguese, slightly darker than most of the English people, but with the wrong accent, me too, am subject of racism, mostly from Asian people, mainly Pakistani. If I apply for a job with a Pakistani person and the interviewers are from Asia it is more than 70% certain that I will not get the job.

When I get a phone call from a recruiter that saw my CV on LinkedIn (but didn't pay attention to my origin) most of the times I'll never proceed for an interview after they hear my accent (but here I have to say that most people thinks I am from somewhere in the North of England, so maybe the racism is directed to someone else). And this is valid either the recruiter is British or not.

And I could go on with a list of situation in my daily life where sometimes I think I am not being treated fairly because I don't have the accent that goes with the looks, or the looks that goes with the European origin... but hey we all get the point.

We are all racists, we all make preconceptions about other people, It's how we let the fact take over and influence our appreciation for the other that matters.

Stop calling out everyone, that is different than you, a racist, stop going after some stupid political agenda just because you think you may get some benefit from it. In the end that just serves to divide the society, and the politics who maintain that agenda are the ones getting the benefit.

Just deal with it.