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Originally Posted by OscarWilde
I just think people should be more careful in over simplifying complex multi faceted issues down to racism. Obviously it exist, but as you mentioned, it has declined thankfully and I believe will continue with each successive generation. Unfortunately history has shown us repeatedly in analogous examples, that the time scale for these social transformation is multiple generations.
I agree people should be more careful but because they reduce their ability to help not because they actually make things worse. For some approaches like the positive discrimination I want to see (for example, pushing for far more equal representation in the police using positive discrimination) it probably can cause a bit more racism in a few but the upside is huge.
The social transformation is multi-generations but that doesn't seem a reason not to make it happen faster or perhasps more importantly make it matter far less - great to get to no racists but in the meantime we can reduce the number of those racists in positions of authority and introduce laws/procedures that combat racism in practice. You make the point about social interaction helping which is definitely part of the solution and one way we can encourage that is by attacking the practices that encourage implicit segregation and reduce the presence of discriminated groups from public/authority type roles.
If you don't want the thread to become about you then stick mostly to the substance and ignore the bits making it about you. Not that I don't want to hear about your prison stories but maybe in another thread.