Premmy's Big-Long Anti-Racism thread.

[Funka Genocide]

Originally Posted by Archbio

It is preposterous. A preposterous reading of Premonition's statement.

You're just handwaving racism away by saying that it's all about socioeconomics... and then handwaving socioeconomic issues away by saying that it's all about personal responsability. Repeating these things isn't going to make them true.

Well, I believe that there are lingering effects from ACTUAL racism that still hamper society today. (You know, the kind of racism where white people owned other people as property after kidnapping them and transporting them across oceans, or the kind of racism where "separate but equal" was considered a step forward, or basically the real "holy shit this is evil and ruining people's lives" kind of racism that civil rights leaders have been fighting since they first had the right to do so.) but the tools are in place to allow anyone to dig themselves out of poverty and into a decent life.

I am not saying the elevating yourself out of poverty is easy, but I would consider it necessary. Necessary and entirely feasible.

I am saying that poverty is the major concern, not racism. What you need to do is funnel more money into poverty stricken communities and somehow reeducate people into accepting that education is a positive thing. How many young underprivileged children go through their school careers hating the system and performing poorly due to apathy and frustration? Where are their parents? I mean every kid at one point or another gets fed up with school, that's why parents are there to keep their children focused and positive, where the fuck are the parents?

I mean, I don't know what you propose to do. Throw money at the problem until it goes away I guess?

No, I'm not going to put the blinders on and accept that everyone is just a hapless victim with no way out, that's the kind of bullshit drug dealers and murderers pull out of their ass when they're caught. I didn't have a choice, society made me do it.

Fuck that. There's always a choice, and where there's a choice there's the possibility of making the wrong one, and that's your own god damn fault.

Sure, you could sum it up as me hand waving all societies evils away with a simplistic answer, but I believe personal responsibility and accountability aren't all that simplistic at all.

Also, poor people are poor because they're born that way, they remain poor because they lack the tools necessary to succeed. As to why they lack these tools, it is mainly the fault of their parents in early development, after which point it becomes their own responsibility into adulthood.