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Why does race matter at all? Why would you become a minority? We’re defining minority here as racial and that’s totally arbitrary. It’s so arbitrary that if you
by roxolotl 1y ago
Why does race matter at all? Why would you become a minority? We’re defining minority here as racial and that’s totally arbitrary. It’s so arbitrary that if you look at the early 1900s you’ll see that Italians and Irish weren’t considered white and would be considered a minority.
Cultural differences are already massive across the US even amongst long time Americans. If you meet 10th generation Americans in New England, The South, The Midwest, and California their cultural differences are already at the size of a different country. There is no majority that’s being replaced. I know this because I’ve lived in those places and in Europe and Asia. The US has always been a place where cultures mix and change.
I’m sorry that makes you anxious. Harming others isn’t the way to resolve that anxiety though.
- msgodel 1y agoWhy does anything matter if you can just define it to not be a problem?
- roxolotl 1y agoIf you cannot provide evidence which cannot be defined away then yes it’s not a problem. That is generally how problems work.
- msgodel 1y agoI can simply define racism to not be a problem and ignore you then.
- roxolotl 1y agoExcept that you can point to deaths, loss of productively, loss of revenue, etc caused by racist attitudes. And you can point to benefits caused by immigration. I still have yet to hear an answer from my initial question about why any of this is a genuine problem aside from housing which I agree with but disagree on the solution. To make progress concrete things need to exist for discussion around them to happen.
- msgodel 1y agoDeaths is an odd one to pick considering racial homicide statistics, so there's another problem for you to chew on. I think the real fundamental problem we're running into is that we don't have a shared set of moral axioms. You've probably chosen international/interracial cooperation as one and I have not.