‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by zozbot234 on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:24AM (#24894563)

The oversensitivity over race and cultural heritage in the U.S. is at a point where talking about having a "shared ethnic background" might well be a stretch. It's hard to see the difference compared to a place like Belgium, although the latter has been dealing with it for longer, and found unique ways to cope with their situation.

The race-based division in the U.S. also heavily reinforces differences in culture that would be seen as purely class-based elsewhere, and thus mitigated in many ways - we see this when broadly pro-social cultural values end up associated with so-called "Whiteness" in the U.S., it's hard not to see that as a problem.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by donohoe on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:59AM (#24894789)

"oversensitivity over race"?

To be clear, this isn't a difference of culture we're talking about. We're talking about people who routinely get murdered and harassed by police, disenfranchised, paid less ins salary, and excluded from many professional roles by default.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by zozbot234 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:10AM (#24894852)

> We're talking about people who routinely get murdered and harassed by police, disenfranchised, paid less ins salary, and excluded from many professional roles by default.

You're of course right that the criminal justice system treats minorities very badly, and that many people are unfairly disenfranchised and excluded from many professional roles due to their past interactions with this problematic system. But that has nothing to do with a claim that our society itself is irredeemably racist, or that everyone is irredeemably racist.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by pessimizer on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:24AM (#24896461)

Why add the word "irredeemably?"

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by SpicyLemonZest on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:28PM (#24899385)

In diversity trainings I've received over the past few years, it's been emphasized that the racism of society necessarily causes me to personally be racist. No amount of awareness, care, or action on my part will erase the racial bias which (the trainings say) is embedded deep within me; the only course of action is to continually struggle against it.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by antepodius on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:02PM (#24898369)

Does woke religion offer a path to redemption?

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