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Originally posted by shakran
I have never denied that it continues. What I do deny is the asinine proposition that there is ONLY white-on-minority discrimination.
So many people run around saying "discrimination against black people is WRONG," yet they then lend support to "african-american" awards which are only available to black people and are therefore discriminatory against non-black people.
People want it both ways, and when someone objects they're branded a racist.
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OK, I get what you're saying. I think, though, that when people speak of discrimination they are really using shorthand for political and cultural discrimination from the mainstream.
That is, things that allow people to create identities for themselves and fully participate in the political decisions of their nation-state.
With that said, there are various awards that already go to "white" people, no one is preventing them from participating in the mainstream. "Black" awards, in contrast, were constructed to provide a venue for a particular group of people who have traditionally been excluded from the mainstream.
The reason many people support one and not the other seems to be that they see the second as a response to the first. Once the first instance no longer occurs, they probably wouldn't support exclusionary awards. That is, if we do away with the second, then the first will still continue despite our recognition that they are both theoretically "wrong."