Henriksson wrote:
What do you think should be done against racism?
Young Left, an organization I'm a member of, sent me some rather interesting thoughts that I thought I might translate to English.
Quote:
The club will during autumn launch an anti-racism campaign. We will keep up the 24-hour rule and always fight racist slurs. They will never be met unopposed. At the same time anti-racism is so much more than that. Racism grows out of societies where groups are placed against each other. We must show how misguided peoples' anger is, show that it is really the upper class who lies behind their problems and not a diffuse threat from immigrants
slurs are just words. by oppressing words, you are simply being oppressors.
racism is bigotry, and has nothing to do with words, words come along in second line. i use racist slurs all the time, sometimes im racist against my own dad, mocking his crappy norwegian and stuff.
i'd love to see young left come running up at me, to shut me up, and moralize me.
the idea is good, of course, "fight racism" but the method is simplistic and "niceistic".
as always, education would be the slow and difficult way to go. banning words is simply painting over cracks in a wall to hide them.
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10 Apr 2009, 6:06 am
