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‌This might be a random post, but I've noticed that whenever topics related to 'race' come up, countless comments follow and debates break out.
People are interested, but it's all volatile and consumes itself in unproductive arguments without anyone ever having a substantive discussion.
So, I wanted to leave a few words here.
It is a sensitive subject that people are genuinely interested in, but everyone just ends up speaking emotionally.
If you are the type to resort to sarcasm just because someone has a different opinion, or if you aren't serious about this, please quietly click the back button.

Before discussing race, there is one major premise:
Race is not a scientific or genetic concept, but a social and cultural one.
In other words, it is a conceptual idea that does not exist in reality.
Even though this was announced by academia decades ago, and even though it is a conclusion reached through countless experiments and cross-verifications led by the white establishment—the very people who used racial distinctions to discriminate—it seems that even in 2026, very few people truly believe this.
On Bullpen (this forum), when related topics arise, people casually talk about racial tiers,
or mention regions and ethnicities, easily discussing how races are "degrading" or "improving."
It's not just Bullpen; it's the same on other sites as well.
A place that discusses these things very blatantly and vulgarly is the "Women's Generation" site in female-dominated communities.
There, they discuss the "tiers" of men from various ethnicities, and while they say Korean men are terrible, they pick Southeast Asians—specifically Singaporeans—as the least attractive and most inferior men.
https://mlbpark.donga.com/mp/b.php?b=bullpen&id=202609150118707921
If you search for just the two-character keyword "race" on Bullpen, several related posts will appear.
This isn't something from a year or a month ago; it's a post from just two weeks ago.
Recently, following the World Cup and Asian Games, some praise the physical abilities of Black people and, in exchange, talk about the superior intelligence of East Asians.
However, these kinds of posts have actually increased significantly compared to the past.
Even a decade or so ago, people used to provide somewhat "rational(?)" environmental and cultural grounds, saying that
Black Africans are good at running because they lived in jungles relatively recently, while East Asian countries
centralized quickly, making them relatively compliant with systems and possessing superior brains (academic intelligence).
In contrast, nowadays, people have reached a point of confirmation bias, acting as if certain racial (skin color) traits are inherently innate for specific abilities.
When looking at where all of this originates, I suspect it is "inferiority complex," or perhaps a "superiority complex."
I believe social media is what triggered this.
This isn't just happening to us, and it's not solely our fault; in fact, it's impossible to pinpoint a specific race or ethnicity as the group triggering racial conflict on social media.
This means the perpetrator of this conflict is no longer just White people and the victim is Black people,
but it seems this paradigm will be hard to break for a while.
https://mlbpark.donga.com/mp/b.php?b=bullpen&id=202609240118918917
If you look, there are posts openly circulating that say Southeast Asian mixed-race offspring are "degrading," while we should encourage Black mixed-race offspring for the sake of sports.
The irony is that no one criticizes this.
I am also someone who views marriage migration involving Southeast Asians very negatively, but this kind of generalization feels somewhat violent.
If we were to speak negatively about Black mixed-race offspring based on IQ and academic performance, what kind of reaction do you think we would get?
You can all imagine it, right? It would have topped the most viewed and most commented lists, and there would have been an uproar.
In sports (physical ability), things like basketball or running require specific skills; in our brains (intellectual ability), things like IQ, SAT, or CSAT scores are essentially the same thing.
But why are we so hypersensitive regarding discussions about Black people, yet so indifferent to derogatory remarks about Southeast Asians? -> I believe this is a problem worth examining as our society becomes increasingly multicultural and multi-ethnic.
Those who ignore and rationalize unfairness and injustice here can just live as shallow and lowly individuals,
but those who have even a shred of conscience and feel a sense of guilt are better people.
And those who say they have never felt that way are wonderful people.
If I may dare to offer my opinion, if I were to define it in one phrase, it is "strong against the weak, weak against the strong."
Black people have a fearsome image; moreover, their collective power is even more fearsome, and they have the moral ground that makes them difficult to touch as a group that was victimized in the past.
As for Southeast Asians, people feel like they can say whatever they want about them.
Many of you are likely aware of the recent Twitter dispute between "SEAblings" (Southeast Asian Sisters) and Korea (Women) that was triggered in female-dominated communities.
This is clearly our fault and a reason why our racial sensitivity has declined.
Returning to the main point, although it has been discovered in modern times that racial classifications do not exist and the 8 billion people on Earth are closer than ever before,
it seems our tendency to generalize—by looking at a tiny minority of people to praise or disparage specific ethnicities or races—has become even more severe than in the past.
As I mentioned above, this is not just a problem in our country.
I am returning to this MPK (MLBPARK) forum after 10 years since I was a student, and I mainly lurk on foreign communities like Quora and Reddit.
From what I've seen, when foreigners (White, Black) do this, it is often quite malicious and intentional, whereas for us, it seems our racial prejudice and stereotypes stem simply from "ignorance" or "defensiveness."
Therefore, rather than intending to target one or two specific individuals, I wanted to point out this general pattern of perception.
I am not sure if quoting posts violates the rules, but I had no choice as this was a part that absolutely had to be mentioned.