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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Yes, but the trouble with that is that the laws to level the playing field actually go some way to perpetuating the underlying root cause, i.e. people feel discriminated against and that manifests itself as racism (or other 'ism')..
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What's significant is whether those "feelings" of discrimination are based on fact... or on supposition, which is often racist at its base. Racism doesn't need laws to perpetuate it... people perpetuate it by continuing to measure their world against it.
People often attribute personal intent to impersonal results... like saying God hates you because you got rained on, or the butcher favored someone else because he ran out of roast beef before you got there. The process seems to be hard-wired into us, so we will probably always seek something to blame for events which are, in fact, blameless, and labeling those we blame as a class (stupid kids, cheap Republicans, bleeding-heart Democrats, senile old people, etc).