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You don't stamp out racism but just one sidedly declaring racism is over all of a sudden, having done nothing to address the actual harm that has been caused.
Actually you do stop racism by stopping racism. It’s really that simple. I’ve lost patience with racists. All racists think their racism is justified. It’s not.
Acknowledging past racism is not racism. Pretending past racism is fixed, despite not doing anything to actually fix it, is not fixing racism. It is perpetuating and entrenching racism.
No one claimed acknowledging past racism is racism. It’s the racism I’m claiming is racist. If you don’t support racial equality, you are racist.
Yes I agree, Act's bill was pretending to be racial equality, which it isn't, which is therefore racist. Glad we're on the same page
I quoted the bill above and I'll do it again here because you seem to have an issue with reading comprehension:
The Bill literally, explicitly, an unequivocally calls for racial equality. There is no amount of Orwellian doublespeak you could possibly utter which could twist opposition to this as anything other than ugly racism.
Nothing like Orwellian doublespeak than a bill that declares racism over "because I said so"
The bill calls for racial equality. You oppose that. You are racist.
The bill did not call for racial equality, it declared there is already full and complete racial equality. If there are in fact ongoing inequalities, doing this locks them in and prevents them from being addressed. That is a big difference and is one of the reasons it was so widely opposed.
Laws are not some magic Harry Potter spell that immediately make things true because they're said a certain way. Youve either been taken in by this fantasy, in which case, grow up and learn something about the history of this country and how it still shapes us today, or you know what the grift is here and in which case, fuck you - you're a facist and a racist because it's always projection with you ghouls.
No it doesn’t. Read it. It requires legal racial equality. If the only way for you to argue this is by pretending the bill says something it doesn’t, reconsider your premise.
You can't stop racism until you address the harm it's causing and punishing the people who are causing it. Without inflicting punishment on the people who are carrying out racism it will never stop.
You can stop racism right this second, by not being racist. That’s it. All that is required is that you stop hating people because of their skin colour and treat them equally in law. That you would argue against that is horrifying.
Oh wow. I didn't know it was that easy!. Just stop being racist!.
No fuck that. The people who are racist and who did racist things MUST BE PUNISHED. If they get away with it then racism will never end. Saying that they should get away with all their racism is disgusting and you should be ashamed of saying such things.
What do you think racism is? From Cambridge Dictionary:
So yes, it really is as easy as stop being racist. If you disagree, explain yourself, because right now you sound like a racial supremacist.
Cool, do that. In the mean time, STOP BEING A RACIST SHITHEAD.
I didn’t write that. You just keep making shit up because your position is so fucking gross that you can’t stand to own it for even one comment.
We punish them first. Then we make them pay reparations for every harm they causes. Once that's all done we can talk. Until then fuck off.
Yes you did. That's what this bill for designed to do. It was designed to reward the racists and let them keep all the loot they stole.
It was a racist bill put forward by a racist party in a racist coalition and it was defeated by the decent folk in this country.
You lost. Keep crying.