| theprof00 said: I'm contacting my psych prof to get links of studies showing that racism still exists since you all seem to believe that it doesn't. |
I don't want to speak for Kasz but I didn't take that from his comments at all. I absolutely think racism still exists and I don't think Kasz or myself has said otherwise. I think we both believe that racism does not exists as a major component, feature, or part of these protests specifically though.
Kasz has said that AA is a bad way to treat a symptom rather than addressing the problem and I've said that I think AA is reverse Racism.
Kasz has explained himself pretty well but my logic is pretty simple: If a white man and a black man apply for a job and the policies of the employer dictate in ANY scenario that one should get a preference based in part or whole on the color of their skin...that is racism.
We call it racism when a white man gets a job over a black man even subconsciously...but we call it affirmative action if the black man gets a job over the white man for the same reason?
It's pretty clear to me that the way you combat racism in the interview room is by, to borrow the line, "not be judge by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Affirmative action keeps race as part of the equation...when we should just have two people applying for a job affirmative action requires us to distinguish the two..it imposes an artificial difference when the point of the civil rights movement was to declare that people were, in fact, equal.
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