• Abundance114@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Some would say that, yes.

    Racism and bigotry outside government institution doesnt really do much, it’s kind of self defeating in most situations that actually mean anything.

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        8 days ago

        That is legitimately one of the single dumbest statements I’ve ever read in my entire life.

        First day on the internets?

        How the fuck do you mega brained genius think racist and bigoted ideas get spread and propagated ?

        It’s a residual product of almost 200 years of government sanctioned racism. I’d explain more but if you were interested you wouldn’t have came out so hot.

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          7 days ago

          What kind of organism do you think the government is made of? That’s right - People. Where do you think today’s Republicans and cops grew up?

          Every person that’s managed to exit cults of toxicity has admitted they inherited a poisoned worldview because it surrounded them - they never would have felt “Black people are subhuman” if they didn’t have messaging all around them saying it so.

          If you have resigned yourself to the idea none of these people will ever change, and they’re fated to be that way from birth, stay in your own bubble and stop commenting anywhere about it because by your own admission conversation doesn’t do anything.

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            6 days ago

            What kind of organism do you think the government is made of? That’s right - People.

            Yeah people who hold a ton of power that can compel you to do something. The difference is a tech billionaire or your next door neighbor can’t approach the level.

            People being in charge is irrelevant. If you’re argument is that human beings are imperfect and corruptable than every form of deterring racism cannot work; so I reject your idea.

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            8 days ago

            If you think racist talk by private citizens doesn’t spread racist and bigoted ideas, then you’re not worth talking too.

            I said absolutely nothing even approaching a dramatic leap to that conclusion.

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                8 days ago

                Unless you mean to tell me that the spread of these ideas “isn’t doing much”, which frankly, I’d consider even worse.

                It absolutely isn’t doing much, because those ideas aren’t spreading in a vacuum. They’re spreading in competition with the sensible view of equality, which is winning simply because it’s the only thing that really makes sense. Good ideas consistently win against bad ideas absent a strong force standing behind the bad idea; and it’s really hard to find a stronger force than government.

                In the U.S., racism is on the decline not due to government mandate. Racism is on the decline because in the 1960s the government stopped endorsing a particular race as superior. We don’t need the government mandating anti- racism and how the population treat each other; we just need the government to treat everyone equally and the problem of racism will continue to decrease.

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                    8 days ago

                    Have you seen the fucking world lately my dude?

                    You’re being sensational. The world is more at peace right now then most of its past; there isn’t a better time to be alive. Racism is at an all time low in America.