I cam across this amazing video of a teacher teaching kids about racism back in the day. It really is amazing to watch.
Makes me sad how this is still a problem today.
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Prejudice will always be a problem…people suck.
In places where racism is not an issue, perhaps religious affiliation is.
In places where neither racism nor religious affiliation is a problem, perhaps sexual orientation is.
In places where racism, religious affiliation and sexual orientation are not problems, political affiliation is.
In places where racism, religious affiliation, sexual orientation and political affiliation are not problems, socio-economic level is.
And on and on and on…
Racism and sexual orientation just get a lot of “air time” currently. Though they are simply prejudices like any other.
I don’t mean to play the resident logician constantly, but some of those things, if people have reasoned objections to them, aren’t prejudiced behaviors.
If someone’s political stance is Marxist, but someone else’s is Libertarian, they’re obviously going to disagree on a good many things. For one to argue that because someone is a Marxist or Libertarian that any argument that he poses in defense of it will be inherently flawed is prejudicial behavior. However, to argue that because claims in Marxist or Libertarian politics are false or inconsistent, or that their conclusions don’t logically or probabilistically follow from their premises, and thus are inherently flawed, is not prejudicial behavior.
Your alternative to this is relativism, which (in most circles that think about this stuff) is a failing position because of the following issue:
If the truth of a matter is relative, then the statement, “The truth of a matter is relative,” is relative; but since relativists are committed to this view, they’ll need some basis upon which to assert it. They will generally argue that said basis is objective, and statements about that basis will have absolute measures for truth or falsehood. Therefore, relativism commits them to a belief in absolute (non-relative) facts, unless they offer no defense for it, at which point the claim,“The truth of a matter is relative,” suffers the mere assertion fallacy. QED.
nice one
Maybe you never lived in San Francisco.
Merely being a Republican can make people hate you…without ever actually knowing what issues you differ on (invoking the whole “pre+judge” meaning of prejudice) which fits quite nicely.
Would it hurt to bother to ask them why they hate Republicans? Usually they don’t like a few Republican leaders or Republican decisions, and characterize the whole group in that way. The same is true for any political party versus any political party.
Also, I’m from Phoenix. There being from Mexico (or looking brown enough to be from Mexico) is enough to make people hate you, not to mention political affiliation.
The video was really good. The discussion following it here on forumosa not so much.
powerful stuff. well done. wish more people can see this too.
Yah, your comment was total shite (as it is part of the discussion).
Hmmm…too bad science an anthropology have debunked the 'racism" issue.
It is about ehtnicity and culture…and how you present yourself in public.
After all, black Americans don’t act the same as black Englishmen, do they?
Science and anthropology have done no such thing. They’ve only debunked many of the supported folk theories that people used to attempt to justify racist beliefs.
I recently watched “Django, Unchained,” and one thing that they get right is the part where they show how expert and amateur phrenologists theorized on behalf of their racist tendencies, instead of making any legitimate exploration of neurology, which when later done, removed all legitimacy from any phrenological theory. In fact, it’s almost explicit to the theory – Caucasian skulls were taken as the norm in phrenology.
And, once again, there’s a well-known applied ethics problem about science and racism. Suppose that someone made a legitimate discovery which demonstrated that some brain abnormality in an ethnic minority actually condemned them to having lower intelligence than any other ethnicity. Should that discovery be made public? I watched professional scientists and ethicists discuss this and other issues at length on various occasions, and there’s no settled answer. No scientist in the group said, “Our empirical discoveries have proved that racism doesn’t exist,” because it’s absurd.
Science and anthropology have done no such thing. They’ve only debunked many of the supported folk theories that people used to attempt to justify racist beliefs.
Ah, I see…so culture and ethnicity DO not seperate certain factions of a population and society? I think you need to check your facts on this. But, that is up to you.
I recently watched “Django, Unchained,” Oh yes, if it comes from Hollywood, it MUST be accurate! and one thing that they get right is the part where they show how expert and amateur phrenologists theorized on behalf of their racist tendencies, instead of making any legitimate exploration of neurology, which when later done, removed all legitimacy from any phrenological theory. In fact, it’s almost explicit to the theory – Caucasian skulls were taken as the norm in phrenology…I’m confident you are offended by that:) By that measure, you are judging history by today’s “standards”, correct?
And, once again, there’s a well-known applied ethics problem about science and racism. Suppose that someone made a legitimate discovery which demonstrated that some brain abnormality in an ethnic minority actually condemned them to having lower intelligence than any other ethnicity. Should that discovery be made public? I watched professional scientists and ethicists discuss this and other issues at length on various occasions, and there’s no settled answer. No scientist in the group said, “Our empirical discoveries have proved that racism doesn’t exist,” because it’s absurd.[
Hmm…so, if one says…“You know, I simply don’t like the majority of white Americans”…or…“Ya know, I simply am not impressed with black American culture”. Does that equate to racism or simply calling it as one see’s it according to ethnicity and culture?
Best way to fight racism: date people of other ethnicity. Even better, have mixed children. If the whole world can do this, we’d be focusing on colonizing other planets already. 