Desisting racism

Young Bites. Dated: 3/17/2018 12:01:52 PM

Categorically racism can get ugly. It’s an unpleasant experience to witness racist vitriol or confrontation. It’s even worse when you’re on the receiving end of it. Those who have copped a racist spray or attack often say it makes them feel like a lesser being. However, not all racism takes such dramatic form. Sometimes it can be silent or subtle. But even relatively mundane acts of racism have an impact on those who experience them. Whereas every day and casual acts of racism are the subjects of our “Racism. It requires campaign and across the country should join the campaign to support the work of anti-racism.Notably, it is time, though, to sharpen our conversations about racism. Race relations across democracies have grown more strained. Xenophobia and intolerance are on the rise, fuelled by far-right political movements. Particularly there’s no question of public debates about immigration and national identity can shape experiences of racism. Our leaders have an important role in setting the standard for racial harmony. But we must never believe the work of countering prejudice must be left to our society’s leaders. All of us have our part to play, in our everyday lives. Not least, because racism happens in places such as our neighbourhoods and shops, our schools and workplaces. Pertinently there is need of Anti-racism which includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies which are adopted or developed in order to oppose racism. In general, we should promote an egalitarian society in which people are not discriminated against on the basis of race. Movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Movement were examples of anti-racist movements. Nonviolent resistance is sometimes embraced as an element of anti-racist movements, although this was not always the case. Hate crime laws, affirmative action, and bans on racist speech are also examples of government policy which is intended to suppress racism. However, racism, unlike what some politicians believe, is not always a matter of colour; it is any kind of discrimination based on the false association of superficial physical differences — skin colour, shape of lips, hair, etc — with moral and intellectual qualities. There is an argument that the English worked out their initial theories of racism on the Irish before, in tandem with other Europeans, applying them on dark-skinned people, like many Africans. If so, one can argue that we Indians have worked out — and continue to work out — our racism and racism-tinged sexism on our aborigines and Dalits. It is not surprising that politicians who are unwilling to concede that Indians can be racist usually also refuse to accept that there is caste prejudice in India.

 

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