A spontaneous (only partial) short essay about systemic racism and the West's distinct problems
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The parallelism of aspects thing about this seems to be: Yes, probably, in real* racist systems there is a a lot of denial** by people who ignore the injustice to be able to live with it. To not have to rebel/criticise it publicly, which would be risky. There seems to be no such systemic/institutional and no big cultural-societal risk in the West today with criticising racism. In at least 'common' racist systems (like other group-based injust systems) the more unethcial the system and societal relations get, the more people look away, don't want to think about it. That is because they (or some aspects within their human conglomerate, ethics and others) don't like this situation. In the metaphor: Their heartbeat isn't in rhythm with the heartbeat of the racist system. And so they have to spend energy to ignore this dissonance. Energy that probably hampers such societies from doing other things. Racist societies therefore are less productive in some sense, probably economically as well as ethically and culturally. They are less plural (in one earnest sense of „diverse“). And the West, especially the US, is quite plural in many areas of life. Which, then again, has costs, to uphold the societal connectivity. But this seems to me to be
A spontaneous (only partial) short essay about systemic racism and the West's distinct problems
A spontaneous (only partial) short essay…
A spontaneous (only partial) short essay about systemic racism and the West's distinct problems
The parallelism of aspects thing about this seems to be: Yes, probably, in real* racist systems there is a a lot of denial** by people who ignore the injustice to be able to live with it. To not have to rebel/criticise it publicly, which would be risky. There seems to be no such systemic/institutional and no big cultural-societal risk in the West today with criticising racism. In at least 'common' racist systems (like other group-based injust systems) the more unethcial the system and societal relations get, the more people look away, don't want to think about it. That is because they (or some aspects within their human conglomerate, ethics and others) don't like this situation. In the metaphor: Their heartbeat isn't in rhythm with the heartbeat of the racist system. And so they have to spend energy to ignore this dissonance. Energy that probably hampers such societies from doing other things. Racist societies therefore are less productive in some sense, probably economically as well as ethically and culturally. They are less plural (in one earnest sense of „diverse“). And the West, especially the US, is quite plural in many areas of life. Which, then again, has costs, to uphold the societal connectivity. But this seems to me to be