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Black Lives Matter has taken offense at police saying “Blue Lives Matter” and others who say “All Lives Matter,” but now a Wisconsin school is risking ire by branding a class on environmentalism “Green Lives Matter.”
The course at University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will encourage students to support the “environmental justice movement” by “the merging of civil rights and environmental concerns.” But even Scott Furlong, the dean of social sciences at the school, acknowledged that the class name plays on what has become a loaded term.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:25AM
This may come as a shock to you, but it's not illegal to be racist.
Beyond the breathless recriminations, no one much cares how much hatred you hold in your heart as long as you treat people fairly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:43AM
Be fair to everyone, even the darkies. 😇 Simple!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:08AM
Pretty much unless you want to start delving into people's psyches to root out incorrect thoughts, which I can assure you, you aren't even wise enough to approach.
Not to mention you will get absolutely nowhere browbeating people with claims of racism, if they are already racist in the first place.
So that leaves you with holding people to a reasonable standard of behavior and letting them workout their prejudices themselves.
'Cause if we are honest, everyone is racist by some degree, and the hypocrisy of some groups claiming others are racist without removing the beam from their own eye has actually made race relations worse by a large margin.
Oh, and it's not only blacks that are discriminated against.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @07:09AM
'Cause if we are honest, everyone is racist by some degree,
I'm not, you ferking racist!!! Prove me wrong! I will insert a tabor up into your superiority complex so far that you will beg to be the inferior race, rather than be a decent citizen of the race of humanity. You disgust me! If you cannot get out of your own tiny mind, I request you defer to your superiors. And I don't say this because I am racist, I say this because you are. Ferping racist.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:43AM
You don't really even need to treat people fairly, not on a personal level, but the law and company policies and stuff absolutely must treat everyone equally. That there is the real problem, that even decades after the end of segregation and Jim Crow laws, white supremacy is still policy and law in so many places and nearly half the country wants even stronger white supremacy laws and policies. The government is not your personal tool for oppression, its supposed to work for the benefit of all people, not just people who look and think the same way you do. Being human does not require one to have a specific amount of melanin, a specific gender, sexual orientation or identity, or a specific set of beliefs, and the law is the law because everyone is equal before it; a selectively applied law is no law at all (particularly if the selectivity is based on one's inherited or inborn traits) but merely oppression and abuse of power and authority.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:30AM
Examples?
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:01PM
I think a better way of making that point would be to say: The (white) power structure that was in place during Jim Crow/segregation era is still largely intact, still largely/disproportionately filled with white people, and that there has been no attempt to rectify the mistakes of the past or to address the situation as it currently stands because the people who happen to be in power like the situation as it is.