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Lux Aeterna
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So when you say "we're not going to effectively fight it", that's a bit dishonest - you don't believe it should be fought at all, effectively or otherwise?Yes, structural racism is a thing. It sucks. But we're not going to effectively fight it by forcing people to stop being racist. That only leads to more racism. Once you start tipping the scales in any groups favour society will re-adjust to compensate, ie get more racist.
How are you going to fight it, Dr. Zoidberg?
The war on drugs was a failure because you can't declare war on a social problem. There's no evil enemies to defeat. There's no cabal of evil racists that we can take down, which will bring the glory of racial equality. There's a myriad of ways life can be unfair. The problem with structural racism is that non-racist people perpetuate racism even if they're actively trying not to. If we myopictly focus on one dimension of unfairness we're only making the world as a whole more unfair. Simple solutions to complicated problems are doomed to fail.
There's lessons we can learn from the various socialist experiments in western Europe.
Sweden and Denmark succeeded very well in creating a society with a high degree of social mobility (which is the problem you're really trying to solve). Perhaps take in some lessons learned from them?
I certainly agree that "simple solutions to complex problems are doomed to fail", but so are non-solutions, and you have offered none.