AthenaAwakened
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- Right behind you so ... BOO!
- Basic Beliefs
- non-theist, anarcho-socialist
In terms of how racism came to be, the history of it, etc? Sure.
In terms of if we should discriminate against people today? Not so much. Racist treatment against a person's ancestors does not justify racism in their favour today. And racist treatment against somebody else's ancestors, who happen to have had the same skin pigmentation as your ancestors, doesn't either, especially as against people who have no genetic relation to anybody that participated in that racism against that other person's ancestor (ie, recent white immigrants) or who don't even share their skin colour (ie, asians).
It just gets nonsensical. If you want equal and fair treatment, then I think you can get support for that. If you want special treatment, or to pretend you yourself are incapable of racism, etc, I don't think many will or should support you.
Is there a person among us who doesn't have an ancestor who did wrong to someone else's ancestor? All of us have ancestors who were saints and sinners.
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How would you close the various gaps between the races, or would you? Do you think it is necessary?
And what if you can't?
I asked first