Quote (Thor123422 @ 19 Feb 2021 03:17)
Unfortunately when you pretend to be color blind it blinds you to the actions of people who aren't and makes it impossible to correct them.
Someday we might be able to take the "see no color" approach, but we aren't anywhere near a place where that's practical yet.
"To create a fair society, liberals must counter the racism on the right with (anti-white) racism of their own" - is that the argument you're making?
Imho, this approach just isnt the path to a fairer, more equal society. Instead, it leads to a bizarro world where saying "abolish blacks" is considered a hate crime which gets you fired or even into prison, while saying "abolish whites" gets you into high school textbooks. Or where studious Asian kids get penalized in school admission because they outperform black and hispanic kids, and this discrimination is then justified by the notion that these Asians, despite coming from an equally underprivileged background, have some sort of comparative advantage because they purportedly suffer less racist abuse at the hands of the white ruling class in their 90% nonwhite Brooklyn/Queens/Bronx district...
Anyway... at the end of the day, I still believe that the Bernie 2016 playbook is the most promising and least divisive way of reducing racial inequality: let society invest more into poor communities, pursue policies which give low income earners a larger share of the pie - these efforts will automatically benefit PoC more than whites (and thus reduce racial inequality) as long as PoC are disproportionately affected by poverty. This approach is far less toxic than if you funnel money into some sort of "black equalizing fund" while letting poor white/hispanic/asian communities languish.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 18 2021 08:48pm