Does Racism Really Exist?

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Does Racism Really Exist? 2010-02-06 09:45:31 Reply

If you say. Your being racist, your automatically being a hypocrit.

You are making that distinction between black people and white people and thus treating them as a different race (which is true). But consider that it is your distinction, that generates the idea of racism in this world where everybody is given the same liberty.

First Example

If 6 black men get on one bus which is late, and 6 white people get on a bus which comes on time, it can be argued that there is a case of racism, where the bus driver (white) knows that the black people are being picked up, and simply doesn't want to pick them up.

This isn't racism.

This is a case of a bus drivers mentality. If you say that the bus driver is discriminating against the black people, you are thus saying that the black people are different from white people, instead of treating them as just people.

There is a paradox in racism, because everybody has the same rights. Now if the bus driver (black) was late for the white people, and conscious that he would only pick white people up, it would not be accounted for as racism, it would mean that the bus was simply late.

This means that people, are generating this distinction between blacks and whites psychologically. Playing the racism card does not exist in an equal world, therefore playing the racism card in support for an equal world, is a false argument.

Second Example

If a black man with the exact same qualifications as a white person does not get the job, and the white person gets the job. It would be quick for some to call racism. This is not the case in a free world.

Now this is a tricky one. Being disapproved because you are black is a liberty that the employer would have a right to have in an equal world, and by playing the Racism card, it would no longer be an equal world. We are accepting social stereotypes and beliefs.

So lets take it back. Imagine that blacks and whites exist in a power balance in the argument, and this middle mode of existence in this perfect world, negates all conclusions of discrimination. We live in a free world where racist remarks don't exist. Please read this very carefully.

In this equal world where racism doesn't exist the scenario would become, one person didn't get the job because of difference, and another person got the job because he lacks that difference.

This is where we step into, the paradox of moral tolerance, because if we value tolerance because we believe people are autonomous, and should have the right to express their freedom as they see fit (the black people should have the exact same freedom as the white people), what could be considered morally wrong is tolerated. Although the difference between people would be entirely negated psychologically, they would not be negated realistically. Black people would still be black and white people would still be white.

So in a matter of balance in power, any manner of conflict between the two could become a racist belief. This would only happen if the white people were on the same power balance as the black people. We generate a paradox of moral tolerance.

On a system of virtues, by tolerating what is morally wrong, what is morally wrong is therefore morally right, because it thus should be tolerated. But the very first person who gets turned down for a job because he is black, and argues that the employer is being racist, is diminishing the freedom of the employer in a balanced society, and the power balance moves a little to the blacks side of the case. Yet it is only that the freedom for the white person is being diminished, and giving the black man more power over the white person in society. In actual fact it is the black man who is being racist, and although it may appear that the difference was established by the employer, the difference is actually established by the black person who calls racism.

It is impossible to achieve a world of equality, where racism cannot exist. Racism would still exist because we would have the freedom to express our opinions and virtues, but it would not be racism, it would just be expressing our beliefs in a manner of freedom.

So calling Racism in hopes to free the black people from discrimination, in any scenario, is a false gesture. You are discriminating against the values of the opposing freedom, beating it with a stick until it is forced to correspond to the ways of thinking that society says are right, and such discrimination goes unaccounted for.

So lets apply this by revoking a freedom of someone to express their views (the employer). That view is diminished in the acceptance of the freedom for the black employee. Yet society tells us that the black employee is being discriminated against, but by fighting for the virtues of the black employee, diminishes the freedoms for the virtue of the white employer.

A state of equality, by calling racism, is what generates that difference in the first place, and establishes that difference, instead of treating the situation as a matter of people, we treat the situation as a matter of black and white, a contrast.

As long as difference exists in this world, realistically discrimination must proportionally exist in this world. We cannot by the rules of our society negate this difference without leading to an extreme violence (mass genocide), which would establish further difference and conflict between a people, but ultimately produce a single free society.

By calling racism we are not solving anything, and only feeding the idea of discrimination. It exists in our minds, whether people are loosing out because of there race or not. It is only if we negate our beliefs, and escape the idea of discrimination, that we could ever treat everybody the same, even though there not.