01-08-2017, 06:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2017, 08:57 PM by FireIceTalon.)
@Kandrathe
Race is indeed a social construct, I agree with that. But, in the context of the current American system, I think denying there are different races is dangerous, because its a slippery slope to denying the existence of racism (albeit unintentionally). The abolishment of the current institutions and system, and the achievement of equality, would be the only way to safely say that there are no longer "different races". In other words, it is the institution of racism, that created and still perpetuates the social construct of RACE itself. We cannot be "color blind" until racism is abolished.
@Espy
If you mean the thought that blacks shouldn't be allowed to be in a position of power (like as in politics), then yea, that would be blatantly racist. But that isn't the context I was speaking in. Ethiopia has some similar problems to American racism, but is a bit more complicated.
But this thread concerns itself with racial relations in American society, where whites enjoy power and privileges that minorities do not. To abolish racism, we must first acknowledge that it does indeed exist. This is precisely the problem with people like Ashock, who think we live in this post-racial fairytale society of America, when it is far from being the case.
Race is indeed a social construct, I agree with that. But, in the context of the current American system, I think denying there are different races is dangerous, because its a slippery slope to denying the existence of racism (albeit unintentionally). The abolishment of the current institutions and system, and the achievement of equality, would be the only way to safely say that there are no longer "different races". In other words, it is the institution of racism, that created and still perpetuates the social construct of RACE itself. We cannot be "color blind" until racism is abolished.
@Espy
If you mean the thought that blacks shouldn't be allowed to be in a position of power (like as in politics), then yea, that would be blatantly racist. But that isn't the context I was speaking in. Ethiopia has some similar problems to American racism, but is a bit more complicated.
But this thread concerns itself with racial relations in American society, where whites enjoy power and privileges that minorities do not. To abolish racism, we must first acknowledge that it does indeed exist. This is precisely the problem with people like Ashock, who think we live in this post-racial fairytale society of America, when it is far from being the case.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)