Woke Myth of Innocent by Default 'People of Color'
History of Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed by People of Color
We need to establish a clear distinction between racism and fact-based criticism of 'people of color', their countries and cultures. In the West, this distinction is blurred to the point that white people aren't even allowed to criticize ANY of PoCs, and their countries and cultures as well, however nuanced and factually correct this criticism is. They are immediately accused of racism for voicing out any such criticism. That's entirely wrong.
Moreover, people in the West are being taught currently that it's ONLY white people who have shameful history of slavery and colonialism, all other races and nations are angels and lived in perfect harmony with nature and each other until 'evil bigoted racist whites' came. Right. Sounds too much? But this is exactly what Critical Race Theory teaches our kids in American schools.
Let's get on with history first. EVERY nation and race has its shameful moments, and pretty big ones as well. If so many people in the West weren't that blissfully ignorant of the basic history, they wouldn't have been buying this Woke lies. But alas, because of their ignorance, they need a lot of reminders it seems. So here goes.
Arabs conquered half of the world back in 7th century (including land of Israel, driving the Jews away from it!), and forcefully converted the conquered nations into Islam. This is how Islam became the second biggest religion in the world - with fire and blood. Ofc the Woke and Islamists would do their best to deny or deflect it, but this is historical fact, go and Google. Fact check me, I always encourage critical thinking in people.
But there is much more. Arab traders used to sail along Western African coast long before Europeans, and among other African goods they traded in Black slaves. Another fact. Even as late as 18th century, slave trade perpetuated by Muslims was in abundance both along African Western coast, and in Mediterranean region as well (mostly by pirates who were condoned to by Ottoman Empire). White Europeans were sold as slaves there as well pretty often. Where are their reparations from Turkey, the heir of Ottoman Empire?
Mongols had conquered half of the world back in 13th century as well. They had conquered all my homeland Russia. They had murdered most of Russian population and had burned our old cities, including Kiev. They subjected Russia to cruel rule which lasted for almost two centuries, and during which Russia was often burned and 'punished' if dared to rebel. Before the rise of Moscow, Russians lived in absolute misery, being conquered and basically enslaved by Mongols. Where are my reparations as of a Russian from Tatars and Mongols?
I could state much more examples. However, it's already clear that other nations were as guilty of slavery, war conquests and oppression of other nations as white people. So let's please stop pretending that it's only white people who were bad during history while all the other nations descended from angels? Not only it's a tremendous lies, it also denies a huge centuries long trauma of millions of Russians conquered by Mongols, or Jews conquered by Arabs, etc. Please, stop the Woke train of lies until it wrecked us all.
"Arabs conquered half of the world back in 7th century (including land of Israel..."
And Muslims enslaved Constantinople, the world's first Christian city, and most of Spain, and parts of Eastern Europe (almost succeeding in conquering an enslaving Vienna). The Crusades were a counter-attack.
Since the 1970s, racism has been used as an excuse for why people are incapable of exercising personal responsibility and achieving some semblance of success in life. Ever notice that nobody talks about supposed 'oppressed' people bearing some responsibility for their failures?