No, it’s really not. Respectfully, I don’t think you understand either the purpose or practice of affirmative action.
‘Preferring some races over others’ in a context such as AA does not meet the definition of racism.
I once had a cat that LOVED to steal pencils. She would jump up on a table or desk, grab the pencil and race upstairs with it.
Until…
One day she stole a pencil, and decided to take a shortcut up the stairs by leaping between the uprights of the bannister–a space plenty wide enough to accommodate a cat, but not a pencil being held in a cat’s mouth. I’ll never forget the way she rebounded off the uprights…And I don’t think she forgot either, as that was the last time she ever stole a pencil.
Not perfect, but not bad. So how does that jibe with your statement that AA is tantamount to racism, which is a belief in the inherent superiority (or inferiority) of a given race?
Well there certainly is no white priveledge in coal country. That’s for sure. Plus we know the reason for below average intelligence in Appalachia is the consumption of Mountain Dew.
It’s the one thing I have managed to ingrain in my kids is to be polite to everybody unless another response is warranted… Just being polite can go a long way.
Yes, and I remember disabusing you of that incorrect assertion.
Which is certainly the case, albeit at far lower rates than previously. (BTW: White women too, you misogynist.)
But your definition of systemic oppression is incomplete, because it fails to account for the legacy of what was de jure, then de facto institutional racism. Even if you could wave a magic wand and make all racism disappear as of this moment, the systematic disadvantages endured by people of color would not disappear overnight–it would take generations for that to happen. In short, systemic oppression would continue–on ‘autopilot,’ so to speak.
