tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442545986600573387.post7463122328701152031..comments2024-03-03T01:06:13.502-08:00Comments on YLE WATCH: YLEN PUOLI ON VASEN PUOLI UUDESSA NETTIKAUSTISSA.Sturm22http://www.blogger.com/profile/07583521946989410295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442545986600573387.post-5348284576108669192015-02-11T15:12:57.002-08:002015-02-11T15:12:57.002-08:00""5. Reverse Racism
Even though the term...""5. Reverse Racism<br />Even though the term is ostensibly utilized in defense of White interests, it’s loaded with the connotation that “racism” is a real and immoral problem, and that it has a natural and normal orientation which is somehow “reversed” in the case of somebody being “racist” against Whites. This dog whistle quietly forfeits several debates about identity that we can’t afford to forfeit in pursuit of whatever point one’s trying to make.<br />“Racism” can be and often is healthy, natural, and constructive. It’s a father’s plea to his daughter to make a family with and have children with those who share the common inheritance that it’s perfectly natural to wish to preserve. I don’t have much of a problem with “reverse racism”. If foreigners and minorities don’t want me in their neighborhoods or courting their women, I think it’s honorable of them to frankly and directly notify me of this. I think it’s healthy and natural for Black neighborhoods to demand that their police forces reflect their own identities. After all, would you want the police patrolling your neighborhood to belong to an alien group which doesn’t really understand, trust, or probably even like you?<br />That’s a recipe for disaster and unrest, even when the invasive officers are striving mightily to be fair. It’s not possible for White cops to be fair to Black citizens or for Black cops to be fair to White citizens in the aggregate, because the two separate identities don’t share the consanguinity and mutual trust upon which fairness rests. It’s like expecting somebody else to be as “fair” with your children as they are with their own children. Even when they’re trying to be fair, a deeply-rooted and even biological impulse to favor one’s own guarantees that in the long run, in obvious and non-obvious ways, the arrangement proves systemically unfair."Sturm22https://www.blogger.com/profile/07583521946989410295noreply@blogger.com