> Medium said that 52% of departures were white, and that one third of the company is non-white and non-Asian.
As an European reader, it's incredible to read such a statement. USA has a skin colour / racism problem.
As an European reader, it's incredible to read such a statement. USA has a skin colour / racism problem.
"It's funny how [a tiny percentage of very vocal] Americans think that"
America has a lot of problems, but we TALK about them. Europe is at least 20 years behind the curve. You guys would be happy with pedophile priests if we hadn’t exposed them.
How dare they not base their identities around talking about it.
I fear you are correct. If current political trends continue, in 20 years race relations in Europe will be as harmonious as they are in America today.
Educate yourself; Stay in your lane; etc
Keep on convincing yourself its normal.
From how I see the word 'race' being used in the USA, I can't see the difference to the German word 'Rasse'. For me, the racism in the USA begins with the insistence of separating people according to their 'race' and this race based thinking has permeated their entire culture. Doesn't matter where you look, old school liberals vs woke, republicans or democrats, they all divide people according to their race. It's even on their ID card.
And yet some claim 'race' is a totally different concept compared to 'Rasse'. I don't buy it, not one bit. The USA will never overcome racism, until they stop thinking in races.
That is a necessary but not sufficient condition. You also have to (a) somehow stop the people who like discriminating based on race ("racists"), and (b) do something about the systems that were intentionally setup to discriminate based on race ("systematic racism").
Since you say you're not from the USA, I'll give you some context which is that your talking point is frequently used by people here to argue against addressing (a) and (b). And often it is particularly brought up by people accused of discriminating based on people's race, as though pointing out that someone is being racist is worse than actually being racist.
Agreed. I don't believe you can achieve that continuing to use race as concept. The important divide is between socioeconomic classes. Identify people in need of support, help them. People in poor neighborhoods will receive the same help, no matter their skin color. With that, you'll have widespread support for the measures, at least as far as that is possible for such measure in the USA. Bring race into the mix and you introduce another point of division, as neighbors with the same socioeconomic class would be treated differently for racist reasons.
Abandon race as concept, identify people in need of help by socioeconomic metrics and provide support to them.