Imagine that a representative for a company, who is white, were to stream or upload a video where he says: "We don't hire black people, we only hire white people, because we want to create a safe environment for our workers."
Just imagine the shitstorm. The online mob would go absolutely crazy, major news outlets would be talking about it for weeks, that person and the entire company would be "cancelled" in every possible way, and quite possibly there would be terrorist attacks against the premises of that company and perhaps even its workers.
However, reverse the races and... not a peep. No shitstorm, no outrage mob, no news media coverage, no threats, no "cancellation", no attacks... Nothing.
And this is not just a hypothetical. This is actually exactly what happened recently: A representative of the game developer studio Cliffhanger Studios, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, said exactly that on a stream, ie. that they don't hire any white people because they want a "safe environment" for their workers.
And there was no shitstorm. Only a few conservative commentators talked about it, and that's about it.
This is completely wrong. It doesn't matter which direction the racism and racial discrimination is happening, it's still racism, it's still equally condemnable, and it should not be tolerated. The treatment and attitudes should be the same regardless of which way the races are flipped. There should be no difference. If there is clear discrimination against people based on their race, then the consequences should always be the same regardless of which race it is (particularly because such discrimination is illegal even in the US.)
And if you think that's the only company that's very actively and deliberately discriminating against white people, you are naive.
The racism has to stop. The racial discrimination has to stop. Laws against racial discrimination exist for a reason, and they have to be enforced.
Incidentally, this story has a happy ending in that Electronic Arts closed that subsidiary game studio, so it doesn't exist anymore. It's not known how much the discriminatory practice played a role in this decision (although I would guess that it probably had more to do with the utter inefficiency and time waste by that company, consuming tons of budget and producing no results), but whatever the reason, at least indirectly some kind of justice was served in this particular case.
Too bad that this kind of result is extraordinarily rare, even for those companies that very blatantly and openly discriminate against people based on their race.
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