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I'm not american, but like any non-american I do know a bit of american history. It's just that I believe positive differentiation/discrimination does not help
by gkya 9y ago
I'm not american, but like any non-american I do know a bit of american history. It's just that I believe positive differentiation/discrimination does not help anything, and also comes with negative consequences and other harms to undo in the future. Also it causes gender, race etc. to leak into everything. It's best to just remove the obstacles and let the water flow: water flows and finds its bed, goes a turkish popular saying.
- BoiledCabbage 9y ago> It's best to just remove the obstacles and let the water flow Would most Armenians agree? The problem is that after discrimination has been a part of a society for so long, the default state without intervention is continued discrimination. That's the fundamental argument. People in the majority/power group across whatever grouping believe the default state is equality. While people who have been on the receiving end of discrimination across generations (who are forced to be more attuned to it) believe the default state is continued discrimination. History has shown the latter group to be correct, but the argument still happens every decade or so.
- gkya 9y agoThe genocide is a different thing, a very different story product of a clashing national interests and temper that grew in the 19th century. A war that went berserk and turned onto civilians. People think many things but at the end facts count, and positive discrimination may render the formerly opressed temporarily content, but it leads to tension among the involved groups.