"Being forced to be the other, the enormous amount of energy needed only to hold against the massive YOU-are-the-other disturbances, often leads to over-adoptive behaviour if not into depression."
If everyone understood this, we'd already be on our way down the moderate path. Instead, people wield cold statistics like a weapon of judgement, without any inherent understanding of the human lives behind those numbers. Research shows that even the most multicultural among us still harbor tribal based pattern recognition algorithms which betray our prejudice in a tenth of a second flipping through photos of faces not like our own. Everyone knows racism is "bad", even the racists, so when you try to talk about institutionalized systems of privilege which shape the statistics, those who worry about being targeted immediately tune out of the productive dialog and hire a virtual defense attorney. "BUT I'M NOT A RACIST!" Of course you aren't. No one's a racist anymore, right? But isn't it funny how quickly young black men become "thugs" post mortem. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Gabby <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember you said you were not meant to become my American Superhero, > that your parents had dreamed up something else in Britain before, right? > Being forced to be the other, the enormous amount of energy needed only to > hold against the massive YOU-are-the-other disturbances, often leads to > over-adoptive behaviour if not into depression. Would you say a moderate > way is not possible, only the anti way? > > > Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2015 20:08:19 UTC+1 schrieb Chris Jenkins: >> >> Inheritance is one facet of institutionalized racism; it's not about the >> overt slurs and segregated dining, it's about the segregation of >> opportunity, and the enforced sense of otherness. >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:36 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Martin Luther King is in our thoughts at this time of year. I've never >>> been able to hack racism, yet feel there is little honest discussion of the >>> matter. It is still in place all over the world, though in the UK it is >>> not as obvious as in my youth and there have been improvements. I have two >>> problems in mind: >>> >>> 1. The situation is rarely viewed from the perspective of poor >>> indigenous people suffering housing problems, work and wage pressures - now >>> including many ethnic minorities >>> 2. The meritocracy system we have is based on a flawed concept and is >>> easily cheated by educational advantages, inheritance and class-based >>> networking. >>> >>> Few here are now openly race prejudiced, yet it remains easy to see many >>> problems remain. I won't be watching either of the next two soccer world >>> cups because they are in profoundly racist countries, but most don't care >>> enough to boycott such. Any views out there? >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
