Are white people getting their just desserts?

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I remember when I was young and the only thing I would have loved more than seeing the whole world burst into a ball of flames, would have been being the one to strike the match. Ahhh...the good old days. Now I'm all soft and mushy, and accepting...what happened to me? Where's my cane?

I don't think in terms of race. I really don't identify with "white people" any more than I'd identify with African-Americans or Asian Americans. I am not responsible for what some people did centuries ago. Some peoples in the past definitely didn't conceptualize race the way Americans do today and may have considered some other physical feature or background much more important for their prejudice.

I work in an ESL (English as Second Language) facility so yeah I'm pretty much race blind

Hey, I'm a white guy, and I LOVE dessert!! !

This has nothing to do with white. It has everything to do with people.

What a comply %$%$% idea

Are people in general getting their just desserts? I mean people of all races, all nations, languages, colours and creeds? Since we're all one human race, we share a collective karma.

White man's burden topic

This is an interesting question, and there have been some writings that argue the case. (I could find them, or I suppose some enterprising person could come up with something on an Internet search.) One could also argue that Christians are getting the after effects of colonialism. Comeuppance for the bullies reaches far and wide.

NTs, watch out.

How can I be responsible for the decisions of other people that were made before there was even the smallest inkling of a concept of a person who would become me? It's pointless to guilt-trip myself over what my ancestors might or might not have done, because there is no way I could have possibly stopped things from going as they did or changed the situation. As others have said, so long as I act with decency towards one person as I would another, regardless of color or ethnicity, then I have no reason to take historic ills upon myself as if I personally was responsible. I have enough to deal with as is, thank you very much!

That being said, I do not think the world nor the human race is hopeless - if we had no purpose beyond eventual (self-)destruction, why did we start to exist, why do we continue to exist, at all? It would seem like a waste. Besides, if everyone took the view that it was all hopeless and destined for failure, then no one would try to be pleasant and make the world better - there would be no purpose in it, after all. Even if it does all go to crap some day, we should at least act as if we can't fail and set our sights to the highest. Setting one's sights on perfection will guarantee at least somewhat of a better turnout than settling for failure from the start. Resigning oneself to worldwide destruction more or less implicates one in the actual problem, after all. I'd rather choose hope, even if it turns out to eventually be wrong, than convince myself that my own existence is pointless and problematic.

And I do like gelato.