Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl...
by downerending on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:27PM
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I think most reasonable people really do understand the idea of treating everyone the same regardless of race. Personally, I consider that to be ideal behavior on the subject of race relations, and any other standard seems ethically inferior by comparison.
I had always assumed that that was MLK's central point in his most famous speech. Maybe I misunderstood what he was saying.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl...
by kick on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:31PM
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It was never the correct thing to say or think, you're correct. Society has been critical of people insisting on that practice anywhere from 1960 to 2020, and there's an obvious reason why most depictions of it in media for the past fifty years have been rich white people with southern accents uttering it as an excuse to do something absolutely racist as a punchline.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl...
by whymauri on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:32PM
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>I'm not sure it ever was?
I'm inclined to agree. Black authors and scholars have been critiquing the 'color-blind' school of thinking since the 60s; notably, James Baldwin did it live on TV. [0]
I'm not sure it ever was? It's been criticized for a long time that pretending not to see colour is just a way of pretending the problems don't exist. Generally the best approach is to find nonwhite voices on the subject - part of the problem is that even within antiracism activism it's easier for white people to get on TV or get an audience for lectures and books.
And part of the reason that there's all the problems right now is that ""racism 1.0"" never went away.