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> incessant It's an incessant, continuing problem. There is widespread, serious harm done by racism, in almost every aspect of American life (ignoring other co
by hackuser 10y ago
> incessant
It's an incessant, continuing problem. There is widespread, serious harm done by racism, in almost every aspect of American life (ignoring other countries for the moment). Therefore, it will be discussed frequently.
It's very unbalanced to say the problem isn't all these people suffering, but that you are tired of talking about it. I'm tired of talking about Aleppo, but my tiredness isn't really an issue on the scale of things.
> it won't be because half the country are racists
There is a lot of racism in the U.S. In your model, who is responsible for it? How is it happening?
- golemotron 10y agoRacism and other in-group biases are an effect of leading people to see each other as different. If you highlight race, gender, orientation or any other number of things as categories you get in-group bias and out-group antipathy. This is basic social psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm Isn't it sad to discover that some of the things we are doing to try to solve these problems may be making them worse?
- hackuser 10y agoI strongly disagree. Racism has long existed in American society and isn't going to disappear if it's ignored. Black Americans suffering from discrimination, and their fellow Americans who care about it, shouldn't keep quiet because it makes others uncomfortable. I've seen many, many excuses for not wanting to deal with the issue, but it's a serious problem and it's not going to go away.
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- golemotron 10y agoThe science doesn't go away just because you disagree with it. Please read into the references in that article. No one is saying to ignore racism. It's just that there may be more effective ways of tackling it.