atheist4thecause
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« on: February 07, 2020, 02:21:06 PM » |
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« edited: February 07, 2020, 02:29:20 PM by atheist4thecause »
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There have been some ideologies pushing since about the 1970s (speaking in the USA) that blame racism for everything. People who follow these ideologies see the racism boogeyman everywhere. This has real harmful effects, and this ideology that has reeled many minorities in is extremely damaging to minorities.
It's no surprise that a non-White person would buy into an ideology that promised to fight for their rights. In fact, by joining them, they can move up the chains, others will be silent to allow them to speak, etc. But with these benefits comes great harm. Not everybody is going to play along, especially when they get out of their silo, and then they have to win on their merits. And when they fail, they'll blame racism rather having introspection to figure out what they could've done differently. This prevents them from growing as people, and even from learning.
One thing that always struck me even with the general public is all too often it is accepted that there is this pervasive, harmful, rampant racism holding down minorities everywhere. We've seen posts on here about Affirmative Action policies and laws that need to be (or are) implemented to help out. The thing is that we never actually see this proven. It's just accepted as true.
Have you ever seen a study that quantifies the amount of harm done to individuals of each race? I haven't. If you have, please post it. I find that people often look at some forms of racism that exist towards non-White people in theory, but then they never look at the racism White people face for comparative purposes. If your argument is to say that non-White people face more racism, and make no mistake, that's what the argument is, then you have to show not only what the racism against the non-White people is, but also what the racism against White people is.
I can give plenty of examples of racism, discrimination and/or prejudice against White people. When you look at the Democratic Party and you see how they talk about shutting White people down so non-White people can speak first, how non-White people should be voted in solely based on their skin color, a vilification and dismissal of White people often used with other indicators like "old White men", and many other issues, you can see that 1 of the 2 major parties discriminates against White people. That is "systemic racism" as some of these Far Left ideologies would call it. Now some people would say these are justified, but that whether you think the discrimination is justified or not it's still discrimination.
There are many other forms. Minorities calling Whites "crackers" is pretty common, but nobody talks about. When it is brought up, the impact of the term is downplayed as unimportant. The view of the racist minority individual that used the term is rarely looked at and they are rarely criticized. They often don't face the same impacts that a White person would face for being racist, such as losing their job, having the media target them and their families, etc. And then, of course, there are things like affirmative action, unfair hiring practices, unfair acceptance practices by colleges, scholarships specifically for non-White people none specifically for White people, etc.
Another issue is that not only does racism need to be shown to exist, it needs to be shown to have an impact. I have been called a cracker multiple times. That didn't hold me back in any quantifiable way, or even in an unquantifiable way theoretically. The same is often true with a person of color. If they get called a racist name, that doesn't automatically mean there has been some harm to them. Or if these kinds of actions do cause some sort of harm to both people of color and White people, the harm is likely to be extremely small as to not having a big enough impact to consider.
So if people and ideologies are to claim that we need to implement and keep policies like affirmative action, they really need to quantify exactly what the damage is to make sure that they aren't causing harm by going too far the other way. And we would also have to keep track of the harm to know when to take the policy off. Sociologically speaking, cultures almost always go too far the other way after they try to solve a former cultural issue and they end up creating a new issue. We obviously don't want to solve racism against people of color by scapegoating and being racist against White people. This is if we accept the Far Left way of thinking.
As a Liberal, I don't think this type of grouping is healthy at all. It's much better to look at people as individuals and help them rather than to help groups that people are born into. I've focused on race, but the same discrimination is done with sex and many other groupings.
EDIT: I wanted to add one thing quickly. Many people focus on White Supremacists. Look at the attention Charlottesville got. Few acknowledge the Black and Brown and even Asian Supremacists that exist, though. In my state, Black Supremacists of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party came up from Louisiana. They marched through the streets illegally with guns shouting, "Free us, or you die Cracker!" This did not get any major media attention. I guarantee it would have had they been White Supremacists. And this is not a singular event, this is a group that routinely organizes racist events. That is one example of many examples of how there is an uneven criticism of White Supremacy from other racial Supremacists, and that does harm to the targeted minorities. That type of armed, militant supremacy creates fear among White people, and most will avoid traveling in that area. There are many areas in the country that White people feel they cannot go due to racism. I was told straight up by my Native American friends not to go to a bar on the reservation without them or I'll be beat up because I'm White. These issues are real for White people, but almost never acknowledged.
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