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> Moreover, ignoring racial issues only reinforces racism by making it harder to denounce. This is interesting. Shouldn't it be as easy as "this guy here think

• southerntofu 5y ago
  > "this guy here thinks races exist and that some are somehow better/worse" This only covers conscious and deliberate racial discrimination, but does not cover cultural racism and other aspects of racism which are broadly studied in social sciences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Aspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Aspects TLDR: works against white supremacists and nazis, doesn't work against everyday racism we've all been forcefed (through media and schools) since childhood.
  • Tade0 5y ago
    Hailing from a country whose entire idea of Sub-Saharan Africa comes from a single work of fiction from the XIXth century and which has been nevertheless seeing a gradual, but visible shift in perspective in recent years(basically the colonial attitude is finally dying), I don't agree. I think it's still possible to fight racism without resorting to putting people into these tight cubbyholes. Especially given that people with parents from different backgrounds defy such classification. Then again my country doesn't have much of a colonial past - we weren't even an independent state back then, so perhaps there are details that are specific to former empires, which elude me.
    • angus-prune 5y ago
      I think that the "tight cubbyholes" is a bit of a strawman (in general, not that you're using it as such. Its absolutely how these ideas are often presented in the mainstream). I know a lot of feminist/anti-racist/queer activists. None of them are trying to put people into tight cubbyholes. They are actually all pushing for greater awareness of how people don't fit into these cubbyholes. The whole idea of intersectionality* (which is foundational in modern "woke" politics) is based on this. The tight cubbyholes aspect is often either a strawman presented by people who are against making changes (at the softest end, or actively hateful at the hardest). Or is something that the powers that be (managers, politicians, whatever) insist on when they implement any changes. Often these are either against what activists are calling for or a begrudged concession to bureaucracy and data collection. The data analysis aspect is unfortunately important. In an ideal world it wouldn't be, but thats not where we are. It doesn't just highlight outright bigotry, but inadvertant discrimination (eg only holding interviews at times which inadvertantly don't work for people (often women) with child care responsibilities), or even problems beyond an organisation (eg the pipeline issue). *Intersectionality is about recognising all the different aspects of a person's identity and the different ways that they priviledge/disadvantage them in different circumstances. It was explicitly developed by black women who were being let down by both black support systems which all targeted at black men, and women's support networks which targeted white women. They recognised that just adding a "black women" box only addressed the immediate issue so built a framework to analyse the Intersection of identities more generally.
• jkkjkkkmll 5y ago
  Racism has nothing to do with the actions of the individual, under the new paradigm[0]. If you are White, you are racist, simple as that. If you wish to be "color-blind" it's because you have "white privilege." There is no way to absolve yourself of privilege so you must discriminate[1] to fix racism 0 https://www.supersummary.com/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria/summary/ https://www.supersummary.com/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitt... 1 > The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. Ibram X Kendi - How to Be an Antiracist
  • f6v 5y ago
    That’s just bananas.