why is this in philosophy?
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Originally Posted by Shauk
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My question is, is racism today as prejudiced as it was in the 50's now that, given the free leash of american citizenship and exposure in the media, we've seen the result of the popular culture of black America? ......................
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Shauk, since you are trying to have a discussion and talk abuot something you had on your mind, i will attempt to awkardly wield Occam's Razor, slice away the extraneious, and focus on this question, which i think is an interesting question. but i'm a dumb guy, so shiny objects facinate me. anyway....
waaay back when, (i wasn't around, i'm kinda going off what i've read and seen) the black man was inferior because he was black, therefore he wasn't human (niether were women or children. just like the ancient jews, women and children weren't "people.") so you had a bunch of ignorant white folk not recognizing a black man as a viable human, just a work horse. mud people.
today, racists hate black people for various reasons. some i think becuase they still believe a black human is somehow not a human, and inferior. others generalize and say "all black people smoke dope, are crimnals, shoot each other, etc etc" and refuse to see anything but the negetives.
i think today's racism is almost worse. i can almost forgive the "innocent" ignorance of the past, there was lots people didn't know, no internet, no google, it was still a pretty ignorant world. look how we laugh today at people for thinking the world is flat, women can't have orgasms, and i love lucy was funny. but they did. "innocent" ignorance.
today there is no excuse. lots of black people set bad examples and live up to the negetive sterotype. rappers are in the news for shooting and other various nefarious deeds (tupac, biggie, shug knight, et al), varoius pro sports guys in the news, lots of black guys on "lockdown", cause lots of black guys are in prison. lots of black people set good examples and dont even closely resemble the negetive sterotype; wayne brady (hilariously intellectual comedian), that general powell fella, darth vader's voice, neil degrasse tyson (coolest astrophysisict EVER) et al. i think racism today is different, its prejudice lies in holding a group of people responsible for the actions of a few. it would be equal to hate anyone who is german because of the nazis, or hate anyone who is canadian because of loverboy.
so yeah, in a way, it's more prejudice today, because you almost have to go out of your way to be racist.