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9:15 PM -- May 16 2017

I know racism and sexism still exists in America but I think we're taking the wrong approach to getting rid of it. We can keep enacting social program after social program like affirmative action but they only solve the superficial part of the issue. I believe we need focus more on changing people's perspectives in order to truly eradicate racism and sexism. If people accepted minorities and women, then there would be no need for any social policies because nobody would have to be told by the government to treat others fairly.

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  • Anonymous left a Comment
    May 16

    The people who do the accepting have race and sex too. People shouldn't need acceptance from every random stranger, that's an insecurity problem

  • Anonymous left a Comment
    May 16

    There's never going to be an end to racism or sexism. That's the sad truth.

    • Anonymous replied
      May 19

      --Whites are racist, white supremacist, consciously or not, interpersonally or not. This is determined by ones location on a race hierarchy, not primarily by attitudes and thoughts. Attitudes, thoughts, and actions are shaped by ones structural position.
      --Men are sexist, misogynistic, and patriarchal, consciously or not, interpersonally or not. This is determined by ones location on a race hierarchy, not primarily by attitudes and thoughts.
      --White straight Christian men rule the West and have no intention of that being different--whether White Nationalists or Radical Liberationists.
      --Any whites and men can choose to be anti-racist and anti-sexist but doing so doesn't shift one's location off the top of race and sex hierarchies.
      --It is imperative that whites and men work against their own privileges, advantages, entitlements, and structural power, toward the liberation of all people from all systems of oppression and dehumanisation.