[hot_gril]

We Americans do it for "reverse discrimination," and yes it's racist.

[whimsicalism]

Yeah I am sure there is no lingering racism in countries that were literally running colonial societies in Africa within living memory.

My dad grew up in a European country with colonies in Africa, with state sponsored racism against africans, but yeah it’s all reverse now.

[hot_gril]

I didn't say there isn't racism in Europe. In fact, I think Europe is more racist than the US.

[whimsicalism]

Just that we shouldn’t measure it. Agreed that Europe is more racist

[hot_gril]

I don't think it's any of my school's, employer's, internship's, etc business what race I am, unless there are protections in place that make it only for govt statistics. The US Census is also fine.

Like it took until 2023 to finally outlaw intentional racial discrimination in American universities; that was A-OK and widely practiced before. And some of Google's internship programs publicly list what races they prefer, which is common in tech.

[epolanski]

Europe is a huge place.

Anyway comparing it to a country that's been built on immigrants killing and banishing natives is plain lunacy.

[hot_gril]

America is huge too. I'm considering all of both, though, and modern-day rather than hundreds of years ago.