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>the ridiculously argument that we "just shouldn't see race" I don't think it's ridiculous at all. Why can't we just be fair to everyone regardless of color?
by nn3 6y ago
>the ridiculously argument that we "just shouldn't see race"
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. Why can't we just be fair to everyone regardless of color?
- danans 6y ago> Why can't we just be fair to everyone regardless of color? Because our society is structurally and historically configured to not be fair to people based on color, such that even individuals acting in their own non-racist self-interest (i.e. choosing a home in a "good school district") end up amplifying the effects of the racist social and power structures [1]. The only way we can move toward a world in which we are "fair to everyone regardless of color" is to dismantle the endemic systemic racism that currently exists. Denying the existence of structural racism is what is ridiculous. 1. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/A_Shared_Future_Chapter_24_Interdependence_of_Housing_and_School_Segregation.pdf https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/A_Shared_Fu...
- kortilla 6y ago> Because our society is structurally and historically configured to not be fair to people based on color Yet it is people like you perpetuating this. > is to dismantle the endemic systemic racism that currently exists. And how does codifying and encouraging racist behavior help with that?