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Eh.
I prefer not judging someone based on colour. In 50 years of doing that we'd see real permanent change. This new way of thinking just creates more racism on both sides.
I'd prefer a system that judges people on who they are as individuals. The path right now seems focused on identifying people as racist/not racist regardless of their actions and purely on their skin colour. It's a terrible system that's creating some pretty terrible people on both sides. And I mean, it's an anti-racist agenda based around being inherently racist.
It's also the kind of system where saying you should judge someone on who are they as a person is considered a bad thing. So there's no way to convince me it was conceived with good intentions.
Comment by caramal at 22/07/2020 at 11:21 UTC
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Ok, I think you have clarified your assumption here—that the current anti-racist thinking is built on the premise that all white people are racist, which in your view is a racist viewpoint (against white people). And that contradiction makes you dismiss this.
This is exactly the issue that the concept of white fragility tries to address: white peoples like us have been taught for years that racism is a moral evil that anytime a person of color engages them in the topic of race, we are immediately defensive—we don’t allow a dialogue to take place. It also stops you from reading what I wrote below—so I will start. I have racial biases; negative ones that haven’t been fair to be the people I interact with. It’s not my fault I ended up this way, it a society of white supremacy that made me this way.
As a thought exercise, consider if you have two candidates for a job, both white, one rich and given all access on their life to all the tools they need to learn the skills required, and the other poor who, while equally skilled, had to work much harder to achieve the same level simply because they didn’t have the same level of access. I think we would be more impressed by the achievement of the person who was born poor, right?
Now instead of a poor person, consider a candidate who is black who grew up in a society built on white supremacy (in everything, educational opportunities, job interviews, interaction with police, interactions with administrators, teachers, etc). If this candidate interviews for a job, would you consider this circumstance in your hiring decision? I think you would. But then, the white candidate sues you and says you made a decision based on race...
I think we agree that we want a fair process, but first you must believe that the scales are overwhelmingly tilted against black people today. The evidence is abundant enough that if you need convincing I am happy to share. So to make it fair you must consider race. Choosing to be race-blind means you aren’t helping to correct racism which makes you complicit in an activity (racism) that you don’t agree with.