Saeko wrote:Racism ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the martyrdom of MLK Jr. This ended racism as both official state policy and mainstream ideology. It is no longer considered acceptable by anybody to harbor racial prejudice.
That's not to say that there are no more racist people.
And yet police and other government figures are openly racist. Judges routinely acquit police who shoot black people. Redlining is still an issue. And if I type “racism” into Google News, Imgetbpages and oages of links to articles describing racist activity by western politicians and authorities.
The police will do that when it comes to just about anything a cop does. Cops who work together tend to be friends, and a cop found guilty of a crime could lose not only his freedom but his pension as well (and therefore, what little financial support his family relies on). The motivation for covering for acts of racist violence is not itself necessarily racist.
That does not matter. It is still an example of cops tacitly supporting racism, even if they are doing it for reasons other than racism. For the people of colour dealing with police brutality, the motivations of the other pollice are irrelevant compared to the fact that the other cops are enabling and supporting racism.
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AFAIK wrote:@layman
It's like arguing that Britain is a feudal society because The House of Lords still exists. Or that you are a Neanderthal because 5% of your DNA is shared with Neanderthals. In other words one swallow doesn't make a spring.
The OP makes the argument that racist people still exist. It doesn't demonstrate that USA's institutions are inherently racist.
Actually, I never mentioned the USA at all. I will assume you are from the US since it is generally people from the US who assume everyone is always talking about the US.
Institutions are still racist in North America. For example, indigenous law in Canada is about how to navigate thise laws that deal with how Canada took indigenous land. It is not about the law made by and for indigenous people.
Another example, again not from the US, is the police ignoring how hundreds of indigenous women have gine missing or murdered and nothing is being done about it.
Examples abound. Do you have any evidence that western institutions have eradicated racism from their midst?
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layman wrote:Some lawyer said it so it must be true....
The op needs to be more specific.
Yes, the guy beaten up in the article cited in the OP never actually got beat up. It was just some story a lawyer told.
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Sivad wrote:It was never their land. The crime of colonialism wasn't that Europeans moved in, it was the genocide they committed after they moved in. They should have made fair accommodation, but the natives never had the right to exclude anyone from coming here.
Yes, it was their land. And it still is, according to their laws.
Indigenous people,actually have legal systems of their own. This may be a hard concept to grasp, but it is true, and these laws dictated land ownership.
Also, nations have the right to stop people from coming onto their land. This is why border security exists.
Most groups within the progressive movement have the same backers, just like most of the groups in the wingnut movement are supported by the Kochs. And you might not be aware of it but most groups within any big movement share an intellectual and political lineage. Your command and control caricature is just an ignorant appeal to ridicule.
Please provide evidence that the DNC has anything to do with indigneous sovereignty movements in Canada. Or even in the US for that matter.
You're definitely not a socialist and liberal and totalitarian are definitely not mutually exclusive.
Wrong on both counts.
If you do not understand the difference between luberalism and totalitarianism, then you should reserarch the definitions of these words before using them.
Well I never said that. Of course there's racism, there's lots of racism, it's just not anywhere near as bad as SJW liberals would have us believe.
Yes, there is a secret conspiracy by all progressives to make everyone think racism still exists because ..... well, there seems to be no motiavtion for anyone to do that, but your feels are important so it must be true.
A group of native kids show up drunk and armed on some stranger's property, break into his vehicles, almost kill his wife, and one of them gets shot. That's hardly structural racism.
Please provide evidence for these claims.
Also, the justice system that forced the trial to have an all white jury, which in turn almost guaranteed an acquittal, is an example of structural racism.
Are you joking? There are plenty of conservative people of color that don't buy the SJW structural racism nonsense. Shit, even most Black Democrats are super tough on crime. Not all people of color share your delusions.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20 ... democrats/Over 80% of blacks in the US see racism as a big problem. There may be a few who do not, but they are few.
It's the same in Canada. There's no big difference.
Please provide evidence that your myths about indigenous people apply to indigenous people in Canada.
Not because of ongoing structural racism, that's for sure. It's because they're trapped in a vicious cycle of dysfunction. That cycle may have been caused by structural racism but that's certainly not what is currently perpetuating it. If you want to help natives you have to help them help themselves. They do need jobs, healthcare, social services, education, but none of that will make a difference if they don't take responsibility for themselves and for their communities.
So you do not know what caused this cycle of abuse.
Look up “residential school system” and then get back to me.
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