Racism in NZ
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@No-Quarter said in Racism in NZ:
@SammyC do you think it's gotten worse since Trump was elected? With all the hyperbole around Mexican immigrants etc, even though what is happening over there has nothing to do with NZ people do seem far more invested in American politics these days. I don't remember people really giving a shit before, even when Obama was first elected. That last election seemed to bring out the worst on both sides all over the western world.
Most definitely, people perhaps think they are only teasing her when it’s a lot more personal for a girl that grew up 100m from the border fence and who would walk across the border to buy milk etc from an early age.
I’m not anti trump (I think the clintons are terrible people, am ambivalent re Obama), but a lot of stupid people all over the world seem to have seized on certain policies of his as an excuse to make others scapegoats for their own failings.
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@No-Quarter said in Racism in NZ:
That last election seemed to bring out the worst on both sides all over the western world.
That’s what mass hysteria looks like.
I found it pretty amusing the past couple years that leftist radicals (read: mainstream American news orgs that are routinely re-published by the Herald and Stuff) want us to believe that Drumpf is the new Adolf, and at the same time without blinking insist that it’s perfectly normal that visible minorities from the third world would want to trek a dangerous thousand-or-so miles through jungles and deserts to climb a fence for the chance to live in Drumpf’s Nazi Amerikka.
I’ve lived in a number of developed nations in the world, and while there are racial tensions in NZ, it doesn’t seem to me particularly bad by any stretch of the imagination, but of course I am speaking from a toxic position of white male privilege, so I should remain silent.
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Do we (the world, basically) need to delineate between institutional or legislated racism vs interpersonal racism (ignorance) when assessing racism in a given country or area?
The former we've pretty much knocked on the head, (except for quotas), but the latter will lurk in the minds of the less educated for generations.
Logically, you wouldn't give a fuck what a dickhead yelled at you - but logic and emotions don't mix and I don't want to downplay the unjust feelings you get when you're being unfairly judged. I got a taste in Thailand with a " fuck, all foreigners are dumb, don't know anything " when dickhead assumed I couldn't understand. Only a small one I know, but I stewed over it for weeks, years now, obviously.
If only it was easy to brush off as " dickhead, not my problem" when racially abused but it's not.
However I think it's a start as futile as that can seem
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This is just a brilliant summation of how fucked up the left is with racism... this video is actually pretty funny.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread but wasn't sure where to post this. I found this article really interesting - makes me think about race in a different way. Would be interested to read his book.