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"Anyone can be a victim" is completely true. But not anyone is equally likely to be a victim. In the US, the percentage of white racism victims is quite small.

> If there were only people like you in the world, we’d still have slavery and women still wouldn’t vote.

That's the opposite of focusing on the group where the largest percent is affected. I can't fathom what you think my argument is if you reach that conclusion.

> We help whites with whatever causes them to inflict pain on the minorities, and then the minorities will be saved as well as the victims of the minorities.

So we remove the imbalance of power and correct the idea that there are inherent differences between the groups? Sure!

Note that this is the same as my original plan.

> to convince me that helping all humans who suffer is impossible or untenable or even just down right immoral

It's worth trying, but you need a focused message, and you need to acknowledge that different groups have different concentrations of suffering. Lest you become an "all lives matter" proponent who is saying something technically true but with a subtext that black shootings by police aren't an issue worth fighting over.




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