07-10-2018, 06:46 PM
(07-10-2018, 10:48 AM)Beaker Wrote: I would contend that these terms provide people who already feel downtrodden that there are even more cards stacked against them. They promote more victim hood and hopelessness. If I had been told my whole life that racism is holding me down and keeping me from getting what I want, that can do two things...spur me to overcome, or cause me to say why bother, they won't let me win anyway. Now throw on top of that the relatively recent terms of institutional racism and white privilege and there's two more things I have to overcome to make it. Can you see how those make the deck seem even more stacked when in essence, they are both already part of racism? To me, I just feel they make the problem seem larger (and therefore harder to overcome) and further divide or separate the races rather than work towards bringing us together.
This is based on the false theory that black people just give up when faced with adversity.
No one ever says we should not tell poor white people their schools are underfunded because it will just make them all give up and not try. Seriously, how many times have you heard people say "We can't talk about schools needing more money because it will just make all the kids give up and stop working."
No problem has ever been corrected by "not talking about it"
