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jeff47

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14. That fight meets resistance. Reducing the resistance makes the fight easier.

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 12:34 PM

Mar 2015

As I said above, colorblindness won't fix the problem on its own, just make it easier for the people who are trying to fight it.

Which would you rather fight: Someone who thinks racism is dumb but didn't realize they were reinforcing institutional racism, or someone who shouts "white power" and is actively working to build more institutional racism?

The former needs to broaden their view, and then they will naturally become an ally.
The latter needs to be eliminated. Either via time or via loss of political power.

It's a lot easier to make that new ally than it is to overcome that outright racist.

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White Millenials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness [View all] gollygee Mar 2015 OP

Millenials are en masse responsible for both Obama victories AND the sea change in US public opinion Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #1

I don't think this is a 'get off my lawn' post. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #2

Certainly everyone has room for improvement. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #3

if you read the third paragraph gollygee Mar 2015 #4

Well someone must have done something right Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #5

that's true gollygee Mar 2015 #6

Fair nuff. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #7

Some of them seem to have a fairly sound grasp of things. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #8

Yes, that is mentioned in the article gollygee Mar 2015 #9

It's a step. jeff47 Mar 2015 #10

I don't think it is gollygee Mar 2015 #11

It won't make more people who will fight to fix it. But it makes less people jeff47 Mar 2015 #12

So much racism is structural gollygee Mar 2015 #13

That fight meets resistance. Reducing the resistance makes the fight easier. jeff47 Mar 2015 #14

I'm not sure that people who think they're colorblind are more likely to become allies gollygee Mar 2015 #15

Sure, it's not going to "poof" into place quickly but it's still easier than converting a racist jeff47 Mar 2015 #16

Nobody is actually colorblind gollygee Mar 2015 #19

The article doesn't back that up. jeff47 Mar 2015 #21

"and pray that it will disappear on its own." Xithras Mar 2015 #17

Racism continues from generation to generation gollygee Mar 2015 #18

Hogwash- Baby with the bathwater. WestCoastLib Mar 2015 #20

Broad-brush is broad. FSogol Mar 2015 #22