Final-Fan said:
Which is the problem with France's "see no evil, hear no evil" stance, I'm guessing. |
Yeah.
I mean... sociologically speaking, the quickest way to get rid of racism... or rather minimize it, since you are never going to completely get rid of it is to inform and educate and allow the system to take hold by nuturing special interest groups.
It tends to be better then making laws, like affirmitive action because it allows attitudes to change quicker...
but a situation like France's just leads to aruin. You both get the mild negative affects of laws along with there being no mechanisms to actually enforce the laws, since you can't really provide ethnicity data and it's VERY hard to prove racial discrimination anyway.
That's why race seems to lead to discrimination in upwords to 90% of job searches there.
Heck, even people away of said biases may end up making a racist decision in todays enviroment. I mean, say your a manager of an office or chain store or something, and you have a choice between a white guy and an arab guy who is more qualfied.
You suspect a long standing member or maybe even 2 or 3 are racist against arab people. Chances are you may hire the white guy just to keep "workplace peace." I mean, why take the risk?
If you hire the Arab guy and the racist guys get in a fight with him, or he sends in complaints about their racism, you have to fire them... whatever, any complaint that heads up corporates way makes you look bad and hurts your job.
Better to play it safe with the White guy. You make a decision that's rational but unfair.
