The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age

Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age by pm90 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:30AM (#23600567)

Racism appears in many forms, identifying that is not as straightforward as it might appear to be. Debating Racism would probably include many of the ways in which racist behaviors manifest themselves, which isn’t clear from the get go. Eg we now know that certain policies such as redlining, war on drugs and harsher criminal sentences affected minority communities disproportionately. Were these policies racist?

The current President doesn’t want immigrants from African countries but is ok with immigrants from Norway. Is that racist?

And so, the debate over racism won’t be over for a while.

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Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age by GaryNumanVevo on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:35AM (#23600633)

Those are great topics of research. But platforming racists as just people with different ideas is a false equivalency.

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Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age by pm90 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:50AM (#23600833)

I agree. Debating racists does not necessarily mean giving them a platform though. They may already have one. The current US President is well regarded as a racist but he has a platform regardless of his racism. This is true of others as well; it’s not just KKK members who are racists, it can be anyone, especially anyone wielding power via institutions.

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Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age by SpicyLemonZest on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:32AM (#23601305)

What would you call racism, then, if not a different idea?

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Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age by brighton36 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:48AM (#23600810)

What's a racist, and who decides?

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