Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by dpkirchner on Saturday February 24, 2024 @12:55PM (#39493578)

I'm not sure what you think the goal should be. Do you imagine a world where racist policies end and never resume? We're a long, long, long ways from that so it seems premature to ask for organizations opposed to racism in government and business to close up shop, eh?

Tbh this comes across as related to the typical conservative argument that racism is over because we elected a black man president. That's not really what you're talking about, is it?

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by lelanthran on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:17AM (#39499520)

> Do you imagine a world where racist policies end

Yes. I don't, right now, see racist policies.

> and never resume?

Why does that matter? Can't a new institution form to fix the problem if it comes up again?

If society goes through (for example) 100 years of a totally racist-policy-free existence, why on earth would you argue that the institutions founded to oppose racist policies continue existing for that 100 years?

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