When they’re actual racists, nothing happens. There were literally Neo-Nazis on school ground a few days ago in Ohio.
Yeah. Like the headline - America doesn’t care about racists, just it being negative.
Race doesn’t bother me or negatively affect me. Talking about it challenges my worldview and hurts my feelings! So just stop bringing it up, I think you just want to fight me for no reason.
I was going to say the same thing but with a lot more words.
The oatmeal did a comic that’s sort of on this topic that I think about a lot now: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
I think this is why our future is looking grim. We’ll never have a star trek utopia until this behavior, which is pretty fundamentally baked into our biology, is addressed somehow.
Closest thing I find can help is to underline in my own words (so WITHOUT just quoting “first they came for…”) that whatever the unfair treatment is, some form of it will eventually creep up the hierarchy more and more, the longer it is tolerated. Individualism has made it so many people think of themselves and their immediate family only.
Americans are like “PRotEct tHe cHILdRenS” and “fAMILy valUes” but massively elected a pedophile, serial rapist, who pays pornstars for sex while his fift wife is pregnant.
That’s just racism with extra steps!
s/rac/rap/g
and it’s still correct
Criticism of racism in the USA goes to the very fundamental nature and founding principles of that country. Their constitution enshrined racism and oligarchy from the very beginning, their country was founded on genocide and grown through slavery abd imperialism. Talking badly about racism impugnes their very soul.
This is like Trump’s approach to COVID. If you don’t measure it, it doesn’t matter.
Unpopular opinion (at least in the USA I guess): if you talk about human “races”, you’re racist.
Controversial opinion time: no matter your stance on DEI, it was doomed from the start, because it’s too easy to be perceived as unfair discrimination.
In other words, you don’t actually know what DEI means.
Or they understand that the population at large doesn’t and is easily and willingly lied to about it by grifters.
Bingo. That is literally how the people (term used loosely) currently dismantling government DEI programs have been spinning it — “These programs divided Americans by race […] and resulted in shameful discrimination” — the fault is more in the assumption that this is something unique to DEI programs, and not that any program could be doomed from the start so long as a sufficiently-motivated demagogue is willing to lie through his teeth to see it dismantled. Or that the ones opposed to such a program need to be lied to in the first place. They could probably just say “we’re ending DEI 'cause fuck 'em” and get near-identical results.
Controversial opinion time: no matter your stance on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, it was doomed from the start, because it’s too easy to be perceived as unfair discrimination.
I get people not knowing what DEI stands for (because all they see is DEI this and DEI that), but when you spell out the words it sure makes that opinion sound a bit dumb, doesn’t it? I recommend anyone everywhere to correct people complaining about DEI do exactly this.
Edited to be a bit less inflammatory than I needed to be…
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