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Re: Now Trump has gone: Let's talk about Institutional racism.
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
We always hear when a Pakistani is a paedo in the UK it's his religion. When it's someone like Jimmy Savile, we never have his ethnicity brought into it. When black people riot, I see them called Animals... I never see the Proud boys or trumpers demonstrating or militiamen with guns being called out on what they are doing due to race. In the U.K. and ex British soldier called Chris Alder was killed in Custody, you can see here the Police making monkey noises over his body.YouTube video
We have allowed excuses to be made by the right, when I was a kid people spoke in a racist manner all the time, the '60's, the '70s, and '80s were full of racism. Racism, became a dirty word, no one wants to be called racist, so the racists pushed back Trump gave them the opportunity, Boris gave them the opportunity, they start to push back and renormalise the idea that non-whites are inferior. No Science supports this, despite the poor understanding of genetics and the increase in obviously racist behaviour and language we have seen as popularism led to Brexit and Trump.
Blame and Shame are not going to help, we have to remove context and look at the words these people spew in order to see the latency of their hate.
So how do we move on, naturally they will return to the shadows, their little boxes to some extent, but the hate inside them will propagate? What do we do next? How do we educate the ill-educated and how do we get them to understand some people need more help to be raised up to equality because others perceive them wrongly as animals?
Another example here in the U.S. is when younger males commit crimes.
Young black males are often described as Thugs and conservative news outlets consistently pull up every bad thing that person ever did.
While you'll often hear about the good things young white males accused of violent are doing with their lives. You also hear things like we don't want to ruin this young man's future for one mistake.