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By: The McCain mob exposed (Part 2)

The McCain mob exposed (Part 2) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:12:19 +0000

[...] on record as saying again and again that we are not as racist as we are afraid we are. With the electorate whipped into a mob frenzy, [...]

By: Jim Crow Laws » Blog Archive » Racism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm

Thu, 22 May 2008 15:53:04 +0000

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By: runasim

runasim — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:53:13 +0000

“I think racism is properly viewed as problem to be solved rather than a crime where we need to punish specific identifiable perpetrators.”
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There is some validity in that thought, but it leaves the burden of solving the problem on the shoulders of those victimized by it. Those individuals and groups having enjoyed the privilege of not being victimized now enjoy the privilege of walking away unburdened by having to deal with the solution.

This smacks too much of sweeping things under the rug and pretending there is no dirt in the house.

I do think that a progmatic approach is necessary. Not all 'solutions' work, and some may even be counter-prouctiive. However,since it's a national problem, how do you solve it without involving all of society, or without codifying unexceptable expressions of racism.?

If racists just stayed at home being racists, that would be one thing. As it is, however, racism reaches out and into the lives of those on the receiving end of it.
Since it's a national problem, how, do you, then. find a national solution?

I don't think it's helpful that we discuss the different tendrils of bigotry separately..
Racism, sexism, anti-semtism, are bifferent aspects of the same kind of mentaltiy. With due respect for the diffrences in historic expeirence, finding a solution for one of htese shoud be a guide to solving the others.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:22:56 +0000

“He disputes the notion that Americans don’t like to talk about race. He says we talk about race obsessively, just not very productively.”

Pretending it is is endemic and deep, or to demand unmerited “guilt” and scenes of “penance” (regurgitated late-1960s pathology) achieves nothing. Little in this year's Dem contest has been achieved positively by the reverse racism and sexism (euphemistically called “identity politics” to avoid earned criticism) that we've seen among the Clinton and Obama camps. Far more is said about racism and sexism than has been merited for decades; the talk and the pathology driving such talk is a much worse problem than any actual post-Sixties residual racism or sexism. This is 2008, not 1968. Grow up, people.

By: University Update - Stanford University - Racism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm

Wed, 21 May 2008 21:36:17 +0000

[...] State University Racism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm » This Summary is from an article posted at The Moderate Voice – Domestic and international news [...]

By: schraubd

schraubd — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:26:34 +0000

I made a similar point in this post — I think racism is properly viewed as problem to be solved rather than a crime where we need to punish specific identifiable perpetrators.

By: Barack Obama » Racism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm

Barack Obama » Racism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:42:50 +0000

[...] Porch Dog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptRacism and sexism: it’s time to change the paradigm May 21st, 2008 by JOE WINDISH Richard Thompson Ford, professor of law at Stanford University and author of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, spoke last month at Google. In his talk and in his book, Ford argues that we should think of racism not as a crime, like murder, where we have to find bad people and fix them, but rather as a social problem that we can come together to work on and fix, “kind of like air [...]