I've heard one side that says talking about racism and races is the problem and that it only perpetuates it. I've heard others say by not talking about it we are pretending that the injustices that are done and the feelings that lie beneath don't exist and therefore make racism worse.
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Edited by Cultmeister: 5/25/2017 10:33:47 AMMaking it out to be an issue actually magnifies the issue. If people just learned to treat all other people as equals, they wouldn't need to be told that they should treat a specific group of others as equals. Nobody taught me that I should treat black people the same as white people, I just don't find skin colour very important when judging a person. Trying to make people to 'not see colour' or whatever is pointless and actually exacerbates the problem. People have different levels of pigmentation in their skin - DUH! - anyone can acknowledge that, and telling people they shouldn't acknowledge that is going to make people cynical of the ideas of integration and multiculturalism. Oh, wait, that's happened already...