I noticed that racism was slowly disappearing precisely until the western world made racism out to be a terrible, terrible crime.
I thought the backlash started when some people turned “anti-racism” into “anti-white racism”. Telling people to be “colorblind” didn’t have this effect, IMHO. Telling them that “colorblindness” is just another form of racism, did.
Possibly just my opinion; I didn’t make a survey, and I am not sure whether people would report truthfully. But from my perspective, if you tell me “if you treat everyone fairly, that’s all we expect from you”, I am on the board. And if you tell me “you are white, therefore guilty”, you have lost me.
That did happen, and at the same time, the ideal of equality was replaced with that of equity. So instead of making things fair and unbiased, people started promoting the opposite kind of unfairness and bias, in order to balance the two. But the psychological driving force behind this tendency is that of revenge. They will go past the balance point if they can, likely saying something along the lines of “Now it’s your turn, it’s only fair”. I wonder if equality or equity will win in the future, they seem mutually exclusive.
I’m also on the side of equality/fairness/neutrality, but I think we’re in the minority on that.
In any case, if one takes something seriously enough that they start to fear it, I think all rational thought goes out the window. I’ve seen the same thing happen with drugs, sexual topics, and mental health, leading to ridiculous myths on all topics. The majority of these myths and flawed understandings only went away 10-20 years ago, before that, the average persons take on them was a complete joke. I think the same goes for a range of different topics today
I thought the backlash started when some people turned “anti-racism” into “anti-white racism”. Telling people to be “colorblind” didn’t have this effect, IMHO. Telling them that “colorblindness” is just another form of racism, did.
Possibly just my opinion; I didn’t make a survey, and I am not sure whether people would report truthfully. But from my perspective, if you tell me “if you treat everyone fairly, that’s all we expect from you”, I am on the board. And if you tell me “you are white, therefore guilty”, you have lost me.
I agree that rules often come with a large cost.
That did happen, and at the same time, the ideal of equality was replaced with that of equity. So instead of making things fair and unbiased, people started promoting the opposite kind of unfairness and bias, in order to balance the two. But the psychological driving force behind this tendency is that of revenge. They will go past the balance point if they can, likely saying something along the lines of “Now it’s your turn, it’s only fair”. I wonder if equality or equity will win in the future, they seem mutually exclusive.
I’m also on the side of equality/fairness/neutrality, but I think we’re in the minority on that.
In any case, if one takes something seriously enough that they start to fear it, I think all rational thought goes out the window. I’ve seen the same thing happen with drugs, sexual topics, and mental health, leading to ridiculous myths on all topics. The majority of these myths and flawed understandings only went away 10-20 years ago, before that, the average persons take on them was a complete joke. I think the same goes for a range of different topics today