Comment by foxglacier
2 days ago
I live in a society as toxic as that. It's New Zealand. One of the minor parties currently in government aims to undo systemic racism. However, the popular opinion is that they are the racists because of that. I don't dare tell people that I voted for them because I'll be judged as a racist by some of my family members and loose friends. If I say it on the local internet groups, others will be hostile to me for it. Anonymity helps people to speak up about these issues.
How do we solve those bigger issues when we live in an emperor's new clothes society? Wait for children who haven't learnt the rules to point them out?
I understand this view is unpopular, but nevertheless. For something to be systematic there needs to be some set of rules governing it. I have yet to see any evidence of discriminatory rules as part of any western company or government policy, except for affirmative action and equivalent policies which do have such rule sets, where some group is prioritised to the detriment of other.
Explicit and obvious encoding in rules isn’t what makes something systemic.
Systemic and systematic are different words.
I meant systematic then, sorry. It's the system of rules that's racially discriminatory. We even have different voting rights based on race.
> aims to undo systemic racism ... they are the racists because of that
this sounds like a suspicious characterisation - how are they trying to undo systemic racism, and what do they identify as "systemic racism"?
https://www.act.org.nz/defending-equal-rights-democracy
For example, "Ended race-based waitlists" (for healthcare).
Which race was favoured? Did labour justify the racial-basis as addressing pre-existing inequality?