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Originally Posted by pan6467
To me the racism that exists exists because the minorities keep throwing the fact they are minorities into our faces.
In America today there is no reason for a black man/hispanic/asian or woman to yell about how they are not treated fairly.
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I just don't know how you can say this. There are five neighborhoods in NYC that end up being the most represented in NY state corrections. No prizes for guessing the ethnic makeup of those places.
I guess here's my challenge. If you don't think that racism really exists:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implici...attitudes.html
That's the IAT Test, and it records implicit associations. There are tests for associating minority groups with violence, or if you have a preference for lighter faces or not. I consider myself a pretty enlightened person...i was stunned to see my results when i first took one of these tests.
now, implicit attitudes alone don't make a person a racist. but what it measures is one of the unconscious underpinnings of racism...and it's given me a lot to think about. if most people out there are walking around with unconscious assumptions that are disfavorable against a group, and then most people in that group learn to expect hostility, and then most people learn to expect hostitily out of the group that expects hostility...
pan, i just don't see how you can claim that racism does not exist, or is the fault of opportunitist minorities. To me, that is a incredibly prejudicial claim, and one that i did not expect from you.