- 21 Mar 2023 21:21
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Just consider the U.S. Civil War -- there had to be a *society-wide* addressing of the problem of *slavery*. Leaving it to 'localist' / 'decentralized' parochialism wouldn't have been adequate.
Also:
wat0n wrote:
Racism is definitely bottom up. In particular, appealing to race (and by extension racial discrimination) can help with the internal cohesion of those members of the community who are discriminating by race. Cohesion, too, is one major reason why identity politics exists in the first place. As such, the racism held by individuals can and does translate into racism by the institutions. Institutions are not managed by robots either.
Why else do you think racism doesn't seem to go away even when the elites actively try to root it out? Racism remains even in so called socialist "paradises" like Cuba, and it's not because there is no genuine desire by the ideological Cuban Marxists to eliminate it but simply that racism doesn't go away because they want it to. The US isn't "special" or "exceptional" in this regard.
Just consider the U.S. Civil War -- there had to be a *society-wide* addressing of the problem of *slavery*. Leaving it to 'localist' / 'decentralized' parochialism wouldn't have been adequate.
Also:
In the United States, redlining is a discriminatory practice in which services (financial and otherwise) are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as "hazardous" to investment; these neighborhoods have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income residents.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining