Race Riots - Youre Doing It Wrong Racism in the US is real, rampant, and devastating; I dont ever deny this. And its not the white-hood-wearing, swastika-waving kind - those idiots are the least of our problems. Its the employers, lenders, brokers, landlords, and yes police who are demonstrated by study after study to treat people differently based on the color of their skin, usually without being aware theyre doing so. But if you think a tiny proportion of an oppressed minority throwing bricks and lighting fires is doing anything other than perpetuating the stereotypes in play; well, youre not qualified to discuss social science. The problem is oligopoly. Minorities are horrendously under-represented in positions of power - both political and economic; so discriminating against them doesnt cost the people in power anything, and they have no incentive to even acknowledge thats what theyre doing. And for the last 50 years, our response has been to consolidate power and insulate it from accountability even more - from banking and housing regulations that favor corporate giants to Federal law enforcement creeping into every domain - under the completely unfounded premise that this centralized authority is somehow immune to the same prejudices its charged with policing against. Limited government and free market economics based on maximized competition are every racists worst nightmare; because they force him to consider the costs of his own racism in every decision he makes rather than pass them on to taxpayers and society at large without even knowing it. We will continue to live in a whitewashed plutocracy until we acknowledge as a country that this is all regulations and trust for government are capable of creating. -Toxin
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:37:02 +0000