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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Programs to address racial bias should be aimed at giving NO ONE a material advantage for being a certain race. Robust and pervasive laws against economic discrimination in any context should be enforced. People get onboard with racial animosity mainly because they benefit economically and socially by discrimination.
There's an exercise that is done sometimes by equality lecturers--they will ask a White audience to raise their hand if they'd be will to change and be Black in our society. Generally they get exactly zero hands. This means everyone KNOWS Blacks are disadvantaged, however else they feel about things.
I'd like to find a way to get to maybe half the hands going up.
Redistribution of wealth, in a race-neutral manner, is not really a racial equality thing. I just tangented to it since reparations are generally seen as wealth redistribution targeted to Blacks and others.
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Ask the men how many would rather be women, and the women how many would rather be men. Youll get a similar response. It's not that they don't want to be black. It's that they like who they are and they have spent their entire life adapting to who they are.
Half the hands going up shows strong dissatisfaction in half of the lives if they want something else.
And the people I've known don't get onboard with racial animosity mainly because they benefit economically and socially by discrimination. Rather, they see a certain race constantly acting up on television and in youtube videos and wonder, "is there something fundamentally wrong with these people?"
Dead serious.