We’ve heard this argument before. On it’s surface, the person on the receiving end of this statement may feel boxed in or unable to reply. But like all self righteous barbs hurled at European American advocates it is easily refuted, sending the Social Justice Warrior running for the nearest puppy and pizza safe space.
Have fun.
Slavery in White western nations ended over 150 years ago and the blood of our own group was shed to stop it. The population of the US was some 31 million prior to the US Civil War, and nearly 400k northern soldiers died in the conflict, roughly 0.012% of the total population. To reach that same percent of the population today, roughly nineteen million Muslims would need to give their lives to stop Islamic extremism. That’s not counting wounded in combat which comes to another 13 million. And let’s not forget the oppositions’ losses and wounded.
Since the war, White western nations have denounced slavery and have (stupidly) given groups that were previously slaves full rights equal to the majority group. No one in a White western nation today has ever suffered from social or state approved slavery, and no White person today has benefited from slavery.
However, Islamic terrorism and extremism exist today. Muslims the world over will openly state they believe in the same principles and laws and codes and goals that are murdering other people and they do this with impunity under the protection of political leftists and social justice lunatics. Many will NOT denounce so-called extremists (and DO benefit from their violence) since many White westerners are simply afraid to be around Muslims or offending them for fear they will be attacked or killed. That’s because the Islamic religion itself states that the methods of so-called extremists are in fact the right way to do things. Yes, some of their religions’ members do oppose those views. But the religion itself tells them they’re wrong and the majority group will often brow-beat or coerce them into keeping silent. They may even kill them.
To be equatable, slavery (led by White westerners) would have to exist now and be approved by at least a silent majority with a large percent of them openly supporting it. They would need to socially benefit in some ways from this as well, and their political parties would have to support these ideas with impunity following unanimous support from the rest of the nation.
Moreover, an insane number of White western people died 150+ years ago to end slavery. Since then previous slave / “oppressed” groups have been granted equal status under the law, and anyone who speaks in the opposite direction is denounced and outcast from society at large.
The same is not true of Islam, where the majority support extremism. Again, they do not lift a finger to stop it because in their groups you get socially outcast ridiculed or killed for opposing it.
But in today’s Western society if you question the virtue of Islam you are outcast for daring to speak against it and browbeaten with slogans like “not all Muslims!” You can also be terminated from your job.
In short, Muslims are still committing terrorism while Whites are no longer practicing slavery.
The two are not equal in any way. When 20 million Muslims lay down their lives to stop extremism and redefine their social practices entirely and the majority stop supporting extremism, then and only then they will begin to be equal.
But common sense should tell you that will never happen.