06-15-2021, 12:49 PM
I see we're running into the "racism requires institutional power" argument. If we are ever going to make progress on the issue of race we're going to need consistent standards for what constitutes racism and racist behavior/speech. Denying racism by anyone who is not white as "less than" or not as important because they lack the institutional power to really enact their racist beliefs will only achieve what we are seeing now; embolden racists who are not white while normalizing their conduct and further widen the racial divide by allowing racism against whites while simultaneously telling them that what they're experiencing isn't real racism.
"It's OK when we do it" will only make things worse and we see near daily examples of this. Either racism is bad and we need to root it out and condemn it or it's not. Having multiple standards for racist behavior, ironically based on race, achieves the exact opposite of what most people claim to want.
"It's OK when we do it" will only make things worse and we see near daily examples of this. Either racism is bad and we need to root it out and condemn it or it's not. Having multiple standards for racist behavior, ironically based on race, achieves the exact opposite of what most people claim to want.
