It is like saying "an asian hiring another asian" while completely ignoring any sub-groups. "White men" are more diverse than you think and have only in modern times put things like hibernophobia behind us.
Although I agree with your comment that you need to not ignore the nuance behind subgroups, I disagree with you calling your parent comment racist.
These are hard questions and the nuance is not obvious to everyone. For example some people think my group (Arabs) all share common culture even though this is not true.
I think to be able to genuinely change things, we have to be careful about calling other racist. I will be the first to admit I am an ignorant. I think we're all ignorant about something.
> "White men" are more diverse than you think and have only in modern times put things like hibernophobia behind us.
While this may be factually correct, that’s not exactly what racism here refers to, and to dismiss it as such is ignoring legitimate concerns.
Yea, there might be diversity among white men. However. White Men weren’t enslaved in large numbers. White men weren’t excluded by redlining. American society did not systematically deny the same opportunities to white men that it denied to other races and genders.
So when talking about racism, it’s not really helpful to point out that by definition not all white men are the same.
It is like saying "an asian hiring another asian" while completely ignoring any sub-groups. "White men" are more diverse than you think and have only in modern times put things like hibernophobia behind us.