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Isn't discrimination racism? It's strange we live in a world where you have to discriminate to not be racist and those of us who are against discrimination are
by zxcvcxz 11y ago
Isn't discrimination racism? It's strange we live in a world where you have to discriminate to not be racist and those of us who are against discrimination are the racist ones.
- dragonwriter 11y agoNo, racism is one of many possible motivations for discrimination; the two are neither equivalent nor included one within the other.
- chasing 11y agoJust because something takes race into account doesn't make it automatically racist.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoSo would taking race into account and accepting them into a program based on race be racist? What if a restaurant charged some races more and some races less for the same food?
- chasing 11y agoSo the goal of affirmative action is to help provide a little balance. There are plenty of ways to be disadvantaged in our society, but our country has a long history of disadvantaging black people in particular. So race-based affirmative action is one (admittedly imperfect) way of bringing education to a class of people who might otherwise miss out. It's imperfect. There's no getting around that. But it's not racist. It is an attempt to compensate for existing racial biases and historical inequities.