Unfortunately it’s not the people here that need to read this
In this community? It’s useful for talking points
Lemmy in general? There’s a lot of people on Lemmy who need to read this.
You’d be surprised how widespread misunderstanding of systemic racism is, even on the left.
It might help someone explain it later though, it’s a good parallel
Naturally the account has been suspended lol.
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If you think that the problems (inequalities) racism brought ceased to exist with segregation, try learning about red-lining and how countless black neighborhoods got unfairly bulldozed to make space for highways. All that stuff happened only a lifetime ago, of course its effects can still be felt today.
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You could also use the same reasoning to argue that colonialism hasn’t really ended either, when the colonialists went home they still left behind the scars of centuries of exploitation, that shit doesn’t get washed away in a day.
colonialism is also still enforced today - IMF loans that force austerity policies on receiving nations, coups that topple popular governments and replace them with dictatorships that are friendly to western interests, the fomenting of civil wars and conflicts that frequently genocide entire populations, the sale of arms and training to far-right militias. neocolonialism doesn’t involve direct rule but it’s merely the form that’s changed, not the character or the consequences.
Wells Fargo to pay $175 million in race discrimination probe - Reuters (2012) And let’s not forget stuff like this happened just within the last 15 years.
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My mother worked for a real estate firm in the late 90s in bay ridge, Brooklyn where she was told to tell anyone calling in who sounded black or had a “black sounding name” that nothing was available or to quote ridiculous prices.
This shit ain’t gone away at all.
But on top of that, the previous owner raised the new one. On top of the hotel issue we now have the same issues, but with the new owner
Also, it’s easier to completely demolish the building. Accommodations can be made much easier, but no one does it because it’s too much work, the disabled people of the metaphor are figuring out ways around it.
Also the anti-disabled people knickknacks are still displayed EVERYWHERE
I live in hungary and when i went to san francisco one of the things i noticed that every shop, bus, street, etc was built in a way that it would be easy to use by disabled people. So regulations can help and people should support politicians eho actually want to change things(even when it turns out to be a little stupid like the cancer warnings on basically everything). Also californians are so warm and welcoming compared to hungarians.
to continue this incredibly labored metaphor, yeah things are kinda nice for everyone when there are accommodations for disabled, or mobility compromised people. There’s a term for when accommodations for one group, like sidewalk curb cut-outs, actually have a multiplicative benefit for everyone, even outside of the principle group. Curb cut-outs on sidewalks make it easier for wheelchair users, and the blind, but also they benefit strollers, old people, and delivery people getting up the curb.
so making the house nice for disable people actually makes it nice for everyone.
to drop the metaphor, yeah getting rid of systemic racism is actually nice for everyone
Not to mention that the hotel does what it can to keep existing through anti disabled propaganda and incentives for the workers to be anti disabled
“That’s just the culture around here”
Damn this is an excellent example. I’m 100% going to use this image in the future, thanks!
The analogy is a little shaky but yeah that’s a pretty good intro. The hard issue to solve here is with how this injustice is resolved. I think the most reasonable solution attacks the problem directly: rewriting racist laws (like zoning) and punishing or heavily disincentivising racist behavior in government officials (including police and judges). In the analogy, this would be equivalent to enacting hotel policies against discrimination and retrofitting disabled-accessible options into the building.
That still isn’t directly Attacking the problem, you remove racist laws however you still have a system in place to add oppressive laws so they will come back. The problem isn’t the laws or the government officials it’s the whole damn system and unless you change the system it will continue to oppress. The hotel is designed to be discriminatory and to slowly go back to being discriminatory (as you said shaky anlogy) if changes are to be made. The only real solution is tearing the whole hotel down and building a park there
… did you just straight-up post a reddit comment?
Well how else am I gonna read it? Open it on reddit???
Yes, lol.
But in my defense, I’ve had this saved on my phone for over a year, and I probably got it from /r/196 to begin with :p
