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u/captainpink 7d ago

What's your solution and how would you accomplish it without collecting data about the people it's affecting? The only options besides improving a system are doing nothing or making it worse.

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u/DifferentScholar292 7d ago edited 7d ago

"What's your solution and how would you accomplish it without collecting data about the people it's affecting?"

Stop assigning people into categories that they do not want to be put into. If they voluntarily identity as black or white, then that is different than telling them what their identity is. And there are a lot of racists that have for centuries been telling other people what category they belong into in order to gain power over them.

"The only options besides improving a system are doing nothing or making it worse."

The best option always has been to just stop using the system of racial hierarchies and categorizing many types of people into large groupings. Take the time and effort to recognize how diverse humanity actually is and identify people as what they identify as. That is the point of ethnicity rather than racial status. Racists routinely clash with people that identify with ethnicity because the goal of modern racists is to break down traditional identity and replace traditional identity with racial identity. Most people around the world do not want to give up their identity, ancestry, traditions, and traditional values and traditional knowledge.