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Does anyone have any good ideas on how to stop racism? Do you think it is possible? How about starting early on, pre K, or grade school? Would it work? The only problem is at home, if the parents are racist, they will teach the children to be racist.
Any ideas?
The biggest new cause of racism is forcing "diversity" and "acceptance" down everyone's throat. It's also the fact that many people are still trying to re-live the 60s. Civil rights is over, a vast, vast majority of Americans don't care about race, but it keeps coming up.
The biggest new cause of racism is forcing "diversity" and "acceptance" down everyone's throat. It's also the fact that many people are still trying to re-live the 60s. Civil rights is over, a vast, vast majority of Americans don't care about race, but it keeps coming up.
Justin or Just-In-From lol,
Anyway, this is not the cause or the reason for racism. You would have a hard time explaining racism in America prior to 1965 under this scenario. You would also have a hard time explaining many other racist crisis in the world between two groups under this scenario. While, i agree with the main premise diversity can lead to differences and cause hate it is not the most important component to racism (IMO).
I think Racism is very simple. It evolves from an asymetry of information. Or better way to word it would be, it evolves from lack of information. Racism will always persist, because racist are intent with distorting communcation lines. As long as there are middle men blocking the lines of racial information, you'll always have ignorance and people receiving false stereotypes and other mis-guided information. Its about "manipulation" by middle men. Racism does not exist in a country that is freely allowed to trade racial information (deviod of middle-men interference). There is a reason homogenous groups get along, they have no middle men distorting information about race. There is no incentive for racial middle men to distort information, because there is no pay day at the end. (It's all about incentives, "rational people" act on incentives, and in homogenous society there's no real incentive to play race cards, there's no "marginal benefit", nothing is ever gained. However, in mixed societies, there's something to be gained, there's an incentive to play racial cards or have racism. There's a business incentive for middle-men, it's profitable to keep races seperate through the blocking of information.
Think of racism no different than you do government intervention in the "free-market", when government acts as a middle man it distorts information and that has a negative effect on us all. Racism happens the same way. It is simply a distortion of information from one group to another. It is not complicated and as long as we have "middle man" (Al Sharptons, Rush Limbaughs, etc) of the world distorting information from one group to another you'll always have racism.
That's always been one of my personal favorites, that the biggest cause of racism is asking white people not to be so racist. Points for making my day.
Think of racism no different than you do government intervention in the "free-market", when government acts as a middle man it distorts information and that has a negative effect on us all. Racism happens the same way. It is simply a distortion of information from one group to another. It is not complicated and as long as we have "middle man" (Al Sharptons, Rush Limbaughs, etc) of the world distorting information from one group to another you'll always have racism.
I would stop focusing on differences. No black history month. No BET. No Ebony Magazine. No Affirmative action. No "hate crimes". People are people. If I stab someone, its a violent assault, it shouldn't be a "hate crime" because we are of different skin colors.
We will only stop racism when we consider all people to simply be people. Do we have a 6 foot tall and over magazine? Tall people entertainment television? Blue-eyed entertainment television? No. We don't ever really focus on those differences between people.
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to stop racism? Do you think it is possible? How about starting early on, pre K, or grade school? Would it work? The only problem is at home, if the parents are racist, they will teach the children to be racist.
Any ideas?
You reduce racism by relating to people as individuals, and not by any other value. The person is the person, for good or bad, and it really is that simple.
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