You were unclear on this question in your original post.
I really was not. But if you want me to be absolutely crystal-clear: individual need.
Sure I do. It would be a society in which your "race" or sex did not affect anyone else's opinion of you save in very narrow biological terms (he sunburns easy, she can bear children).
Racism and sexism are not solely about personal opinions. v_v
If you have no idea what true racial and sexual equality looks like, how do you know how far away we are from achieving it?
Ummm...because minorities and women obviously have it worse off than whites and men?
If it's anything other than color-blind and sex-blind, which is what I advocate, then how do you know that (for instance) the modern West is more racially and sexually equal than the 18th century West, or for that matter World War II Imperial Japan?
...Seriously? Um, well, there's no slavery for one. Women are allowed to work, all adults are allowed to vote (technically)...was this supposed to be a trick question?
By your definitions, I see absolutely nothing effective that anyone can do to help the situation.
You are correct. No one can do anything, as an individual. As a group, however--or a social movement, say--something most certainly can be done. Historically speaking actually, progress on these fronts has always come about because of social movements, not because individual people changed their minds about race and sex.
Blah blah blah liberals are the real racists blah blah
Thank you very much for psychoanalyzing me over the internet. I feel like I know myself so much better now after having someone I've never met explain to me exactly how I think.
EDIT: Did you read the article about colorblind racism?
Re: Victims
I really was not. But if you want me to be absolutely crystal-clear: individual need.
Sure I do. It would be a society in which your "race" or sex did not affect anyone else's opinion of you save in very narrow biological terms (he sunburns easy, she can bear children).
Racism and sexism are not solely about personal opinions. v_v
If you have no idea what true racial and sexual equality looks like, how do you know how far away we are from achieving it?
Ummm...because minorities and women obviously have it worse off than whites and men?
If it's anything other than color-blind and sex-blind, which is what I advocate, then how do you know that (for instance) the modern West is more racially and sexually equal than the 18th century West, or for that matter World War II Imperial Japan?
...Seriously? Um, well, there's no slavery for one. Women are allowed to work, all adults are allowed to vote (technically)...was this supposed to be a trick question?
By your definitions, I see absolutely nothing effective that anyone can do to help the situation.
You are correct. No one can do anything, as an individual. As a group, however--or a social movement, say--something most certainly can be done. Historically speaking actually, progress on these fronts has always come about because of social movements, not because individual people changed their minds about race and sex.
Blah blah blah liberals are the real racists blah blah
Thank you very much for psychoanalyzing me over the internet. I feel like I know myself so much better now after having someone I've never met explain to me exactly how I think.
EDIT: Did you read the article about colorblind racism?