[Peace-discuss] Anti-racism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Wouldn't it betray a "privileged mindset" so easily to set aside, say, the 
victories against racism of the US civil rights movement, by saying that that 
racism wasn't different from racial prejudice?


Marti Wilkinson wrote:
> For many people racism is not something that can be separated from 
> racial prejudice, and it can be argued that even attempting to make such 
> a distinction is consistent with a privileged mindset.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     [Racism refers to legal structures that penalize groups defined by
>     descent. Racial prejudice refers to censorious attitudes towards
>     groups defined by descent.  Both are present in Israel. Racism, but
>     not racial prejudice, is now largely absent in the US (altho' some,
>     like native Americans, may justly not think so).  --CGE]
> 
>            March 4, 2009
>            SEGREGATION IN ISRAEL
> 
>     Israeli Association for Civil Rights
> 
>     Some 55 percent of Jewish Israelis say that the state should
>     encourage Arab emigration;
> 
>     78 percent of Jewish Israelis oppose including Arab parties in the
>     government;
> 
>     56 percent agree with the statement that 'Arabs cannot attain the
>     Jewish level of cultural development'
> 
>     75 percent agree that Arabs are inclined to be violent. Among
>     Arab-Israelis, 54 percent feel the same way about Jews.
> 
>     75 percent of Israeli Jews say they would not live in the same
>     building as Arabs.
> 
>     http://prorev.com/2009/03/segregation-in-israel.html
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