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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 231: The Sleepy One |
| red sox 777 07/30/19 2:37:52 PM #130: | For example, suppose there's a head of a company who systematically pays black people less than white people--predicting that black people are more willing to work for the lower wage. I'm going to describe that person as a racist even if I thought that they personally held no racist beliefs at all and that it was just a profit-driven strategy to spend less money on labor. This is a great example. The reason is that in this case, it is society which is racist, not that specific CEO. It does no good to attack an individual CEO for doing this, because if he changes, he will just be at a competitive disadvantage to his competitors who don't change. So society will reward actions that hurt black people and punish those who help them - this is a classic case of a racist society. To change that, you need to change things at a societal level. And that starts by correctly identifying the problem where it is. And you know, we did do something about that in the 1960s - the Civil Rights Act. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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