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It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.
No, that’s not fine either and should also be outlawed due to a history of systemic racism giving some people an advantage over others.
It should be 100% merit based, plain and simple. It’s the only fair way.
Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.
Maybe it’s because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of “100% merit based” reality.
Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn’t racist AF.
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Our entire society is plain wrong, doing things to address those injustices is good actually.
P.s you can’t be “racist” against white people, in a white supremacists nation.
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It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
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Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
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You can in Hawaii.
If Hawaii wasn’t part of America and thus the rights of rich white people override the rights of locals, that might be true.
But Hawaii IS part of the US so it’s not.
Housing discrimination against white people in Hawaii by locals is rampant. They’re the majority there, they can get away with it, so many engage in it. Under 25 U.S.C. §4223(d), Hawaii is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act when it is distributing federal housing funds, and this carries over into the attitudes of people renting to haoles, or maybe vice versa. Chicken vs egg, I guess. At any rate, you see large scale housing discrimination there, as well as quite a few areas where it’s not safe to go unless you’re islander or asian, full stop. Cops don’t care and don’t investigate. Same with the many more areas where being haole won’t get you beat up, but it definitely WILL get you burgled and robbed on a regular basis. You’re expected to just deal with it as the cost of living where you’re not supposed to be.
There’s also the Kamehameha school, which is private and students have to be native. Which is fine… until you get to the part where it’s partially funded with public money. I plotzed when I learned about that one.
So, yeah. Try living there. It’s honestly amazing to see how much it manages to flip the script.
That’s not how it’s going to play out in reality, unfortunately. I truly wish it were.
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Indeed. Such programs exist, and we need more of them.