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Cut off a branch to spare the tree?
You should read up on Affirmative Action. It is not, as most people assume, a quota system in which qualified candidates are being passed over.
Of course, I'm sure there are individual instances where this has happened -- any policy/practice is going to be subject to abuse and misinterpretation -- but that's not how the actual policy was written.
Cut off a branch to spare the tree?
Because, IMO, I do believe that we are all born with some racism but we have a choice as to how we deal with it.
Maybe instead of that, I think what I'm trying to say is that we live in a racist society and racism has been part of all of our upbringings (not that we're taught to be racist, just that it's something we all know about & see on an almost daily basis). Knowing that about our society, we might as well do what we can to keep things peaceful. Instead of being overly sensitive about it, just accept things for how they are and work the system to try cutting off at least the worst forms of racism. And then hopefully one day we don't have to do any of this at all.
I have the same hope as you do.
Racism is taught though. Not all the time and maybe not specifically but if a child's parents make racist remarks they will pick up on it.
Well, there we definitely disagree. I don't think there's anything on a biological level that causes us to hate or fear people based on ethnicity or nationality. Personal prejudice is definitely in the nurture column, not nature, in my opinion.
This sounds less racist to me and more problem management. I agree it looks bad to segregate the buildings though.
I wonder if this practice is widespread? Like a hushed way of keeping your apartment complex less out of control? I find the crime thing to be a little hard to believe though. Why would that keep a criminal from doing crime because the community is segregated?
The original Affirmative Action order may not have had quotas attached to it but if you don't think quotas are being used extensively, you're crazy. And the policies found within it are definitely racist/sexist. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing.
Well the entire history of humanity disagrees.
Does it, really? I must have missed the irrefutable proof that our collective history of hatred and injustice was caused by biology.
I suppose it's also not in the biology of a lion to hunt and kill. Doesn't matter that that's all the lion has done in it's entire history.
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At some point our society turned opinion and likes/dislikes into something racist. If 90% of the black people I come into contact with smell like fritos then I can't help it that most black people smell like fritos, its just the way they are, how is it racist if its factual?
The point is that racism isn't completely taught or by choice its the fact that we turned non racist into racism thats the problem. We turned behavior patterns and the ability to point out the obvious into something considered to be biggotry because people don't like other people to point out their shortcomings....especially if it applies to the majority.
This is why BacktoBasics is my life coach. Although I haven't actually paid him yet.
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Blame the parents? How about blaming societies and to some extent governments?
Call it racism, sexism, or bias, it all boils down to one thing. One person or persons don't like another group of persons or person.
The Turks hate the Greeks. I am a Turk, therefore in my society, it is imperative that I hate all Greeks. That is the education I got in Turkey. You have only to look at New York City to find almost everyone hates another group that lives in the same city, and this is mostly from feelings and emotions that were inbred for years and years and years. Germans hated the Jews. And did everything they could to rid the world of them.
And since all this hate against other groups has been going on since the rise of man, I doubt we can look forward to it ending anytime in the near future.
Interesting
I lived at a complex where families and older people were all on one side of the complex and the younger and single people where on the other. Each side even had its own pool.
Last edited by Evan; 05-09-2008 at 12:12 PM.
I'm with PangDussy here. I'm pretty sure we learn these things. To suggest that it's "hardwired" into us suggests either (a) that's it's okay to be a racist, or (b) that we're mere machines and it doesn't make a difference. A rational person would have problems with either option.
I try to look at people as people. Which is what God intended.
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But it is in the lion's biology to hunt and kill (lioness', actually, since they're the hunters) thanks to natural selection -- those who are not biologically/genetically inclined towards hunting probably didn't live long enough to mate and pass on their wussy genes.
Applying it to the majority is what makes it racist, though.
If you've met ten black people and eight of them have been hardened criminals, you can't say that 80% of all black people are hardened criminals; all you can say is that eight of the ten black people you have personally encountered happened to share that trait.
When white folks take showers they smell like dogs.
Racist?
I blame them all. But that comes from my own personal experiences. I've seen it.
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