I'd say no and that's for some very basic reasons; problems don't go away if you just ignore them. For one, the lingering impacts of racial inequality don't go away by telling people to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Also, it's easy to think that because we've passed the Civil rights act of 1965 and the Voting Rights act of 1964 that racism no longer exists at a legal level. But here's the problem with this argument is that we already had the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which promised everyone equality before the law (that's why the racial caste system in the south was called "separate but equal") and the 15th amendment guaranteed that no one could be denied the right to vote based on race. Yet we still had a Civil Rights Movement; why? Because while there has been a lot of racial progress, there has also been a lot of racist progress. The fight for equality wasn't a linear progression but an arms race; an act is passed to protect all citizens and a law code is introduced to counter it. The 13th amendment abolished slavery and the pig laws made misdemeanor offenses most often committed by African Americans felonies to be used in the convict leasing system. The Civil Rights Act is passed to prevent people from being denied employment based on race and the Austerity politics of the Reagan Era prevent the downtrodden from moving up on the societal ladder. So if we pretend racism isn't a problem, it will make it easier to undo the progress toward equality made during the Civil Rights Movement. Also, a claim I hear a lot is that criminal and economic disparities are only as prevalent as they are because "a bunch of SJWs installed a victim complex in minorities". Give me a break, this is just like people in the Jim Crow South saying "our @#$$%&! were happy until those northerners came down and started stirring up trouble".
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Do you think racism will go away if we just ignore it?
No, because people are animals. So if they are not taught to share and not to kill and/or enslave each other, they will. Heck, some will enslave each other even if they are taught not to and there are criminal penalties for it, which is why we have human trafficking.
This is also why we have incest, rape, murder, bullying, queer-phobias, theft, etc. People do not respect each other unless they are taught to and that indoctrination is enforced. We have information technology advancing to a point where we could advance to the next level, but the sad truth is that these animals known as humans resist their own ethical growth and development.
No. However, that doesn't mean that we should assume that racism is the driving force behind everything a person of a given race does, says, or thinks. It doesn't mean that we draw unwarranted comparisons between a given issue and racism. It doesn't mean that we give preferential treatment to one race over another.
It means we talk about how it was practiced in the past, but then look at the progress we've made since those times and see the other person we're talking to as exactly that. A person.
Definitely not, we have to stay open minded and educate others about the issues. To make change in the world, we gotta make the change. When we sit quietly, there is no progress in life.
A racially-motivated crime should obviously be punished - but no differently than if the same crime were motivated by some other factor. Schools, employers and government agencies shouldn't be incentivized to take on more people of a particular race (or gender for that matter) - but they shouldn't be allowed to blatantly discriminate against them either.
I realize that one consequence of historic racism is that minorities are very often poorer, and that has a whole host of knock on effects - but the solution is to help all of the poor, regardless of their race (in the UK for example, it's actually poor *white* males who do by far the worst academically).
I'm not convinced that children are born racist - they need to be taught, and seeing people of other races being treated differently (however well-intentioned it may be) is one sure fire way to do that.
It is pretty simple to me. The cause of racism at its root is race. Science has proven race doesn't exist. Science has also proven that ethnicities from Africa, let's say, can have less in common between one another biologically than between a white and black person. So the answer is that. Stop validating race and instead denounce it with science. Who can disagree then? Only a fool continues. And I understand beliefs are not logical but you can believe something explicitly and not believe it implicitly. We just need your conscious, logically mind to believe it so we can get this information in the SCHOOLS. We need them to be the ones that truly believe race isn't real and to stop using it.
No because racism comes from hate, which can come from both being taught, and life experience.
Let me give an example, a cousin of mine was out with his friends when he was a teen, minding is own business when he got jumped by a bunch of black guys unprovoked that left him in the hospital. The trauma from that, despite knowing that being racist was wrong, left him with a deep seeded hatred of black men because of it.
On the flip side look at the number of black people who over the years from prejudice and abuse from white people have that same deep seeded hate.
Hate creates hate, and in the end it's why racism will never end
I agree with Lemmy from Motorhead. The best way to fix the issue is for humanity to fuck itself stupid, tell humanity looks likes coffee. But even of that happened their would probably be groups fighting each other because people are different shades.
Not at all, it makes it worse. If you are doing something wrong and nobody cares why would you stop doing it? If you are not held accountable for your actions then what is the deterrent for change? How many are taught to treat others as they wish to be treated? When has ignoring anything made it go away? Part of the problem is getting people to care enough to make the needed changes instead of ignoring the way things have been because it doesn't affect them or impact their world.
No of course not. " A black guy was murdered by the KKK? well if we don't talk about it and just ignore it it's not a serious issue." This sounds ridiculous but sadly that's the type of mindset some people have
What if we just change categories? Humans are a race, but it doesn’t really make sense to call two humans with different color patterns also a different races. That’s like saying Lions and Tigers are two different races. No, they’re different kinds of people of the same race. It shouldn’t be different with humans.
I heard we can disable parts of the brain to eliminate racism. By using magnets it inhibits the prefrontal cortex reducing the ability to analyze problems and determine solutions. do you think we should do it?
No, fag. you don’t get to weasel and gaslight out of what you typed. You claim you’re willing to kill for what you believe in. So I’m telling you to bring it on.
No, just those of you who are failures failed. The rest of us didn’t. That’s why your commie bullshit is so attractive to you. You can blame your personal failures on someone else instead of taking responsibility for your choices.
Yes, people do rise and fall on their own merits. you’ve positioned yourself as a loser, and that’s what you are. And you blame others for your inadequacy.
Lol, you do nothing but blame capitalism. can I have your mom’s phone numbers so I can give her emotional support? I want her to know she’s not to blame for how you turned out.
Yeah, tell her how ashamed she should be because her son just earned a masters degree in a STEM field from a tier 1 research institution. I'm sure she'll be devastated.
But first you want my address and now you want my mom's number? Bruh I know your obsessed with me but I don't drag my family into these kinds of things.
That's as stupid as saying someone's a failure for barely having any money right after investing what they had in a startup company. Will their venture succeed? Time will tell but don't count your ego chickens before they hatch.
