03-14-2018, 01:45 PM
I am someone on the left and I see our society as very racist. However, I don't call individuals racist, but rather behaviors and systems. We like to say that we live in an age of colorblindness, and to be fair we do know that fewer and fewer people see discrimination based on race as acceptable. What this has done rather than eliminate racism, though, is make it implicit rather than explicit. We also tend to create these models of personhood around race that we then exclude people we know personally from.
All of this is to say that I view racism as discrimination based on race. I just don't apply the term to people but rather the actions they take part in that racialize other individuals. By using the term for an individual it is an otherization of that person in a similar way that racialization does.
All of this is to say that I view racism as discrimination based on race. I just don't apply the term to people but rather the actions they take part in that racialize other individuals. By using the term for an individual it is an otherization of that person in a similar way that racialization does.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
