11-01-2021, 01:58 AM
(10-31-2021, 01:37 AM)rothschild Wrote:(10-31-2021, 12:53 AM)MirahM Wrote: I totally hear what you are saying.
So anti-racism is actually revers-racism. Got it.
Also what I hear you saying is that everyone SHOULD benefit out of life, or have the same benefits or opportunities as anyone else, or consequences for that matter.
It is not about being against each other or one another.
I think it's reverse racism, but I also think that blacks have a lot of legitimate grievances. I don't think "equality" is a feasible goal because it's antithetical to diversity (we should have a discussion about what "diversity" means, sometime), but I do think social justice is worth pursuing if it's predicated on fairness, and I suspect most of us could agree that a world in which a few people have control over how wealth is distributed is completely unfair, and undemocratic. Extreme economic disparity is unbalanced, and is indicative of an economics that is morally bankrupt.
It would be great if we could all disengage from the dichotomies that infest commercial media, because I don't think we're anywhere near as different as we've been led to believe. I think of it in terms of psychological hygiene, but whereas the corporate state wants to protect our minds by way of censorship, I prefer to do it by exercising discretion. And think about this: if the masses can't be trusted to exercise discretion with respect to information, how is that not a scathing indictment of our education system?
Well put.
I will say that I do not get my information on racism from the daily news or media in that sort.
There is a problem with the education system and there is a problem when people think we are suddenly wanting to "change" it. Problem is-it was changed in the begninning and wasn't accurate then. It is not wrong to look at history from a different perspective and see if the lense in which it was previously viewed through was skewed.