Why do people think racism works like noise cancelling?
If you’re racist the “other way”, it doesn’t cancel out the initial racism, it just creates more racism.
Why do people think racism works like noise cancelling?
If you’re racist the “other way”, it doesn’t cancel out the initial racism, it just creates more racism.
Fair point - I’d moved on from this example of the tiered pricing to the big picture of ‘how does a society eliminate racism’ in principle.
You are right about this.
I do wonder what might the future look like though, when we’re all trying to ‘get one back’ either due to responding to the systemic racism or …bear with me here, the hypothetocal is a little gross: counter-responses: lets imagine pakeha with perceived past hurts in response to similar gestures? (as im sure there are quite a few completely blind to their privilege and so on…). I’m not saying they did the wrong thing at all with the gesture, I’m merely trying to find ways to avoid escalating things (which in hindsight sounds dangerously like ‘peace at any price’, but I don’t think it is…).
This all sounds like “shut up and take it bitch” to me.
After subjecting them to a lifetime of racism you don’t think the victims should be able to act the same (not escalation, just acting like the pakeha do). An immediately a cry goes out and hands start wringing about what the future will look like if everybody did the same thing pakeha have done to the Maori (and others) for the last century.
Why do the minorities have to turn the other cheek and smacked with the hammer over and over again? Why can’t the pakeha de escalate and turn the other cheek and shut up and take it?