[Peace-discuss] Anti-racism

[John W.]

Stated better than I could have stated it.  Thank you, Robert.


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:

"legal" seems too narrow. economic discrimination can persist in the
> absence of laws enforcing discrimination. in fact, discrimination can
> persist without being strongly reinforced by censorious attitudes,
> through customs and practices that may seem nominally neutral but have
> the effect of reproducing existing disparities.
>
> for example: a legacy of British colonial policies in Northern Ireland
> was that Protestant workers disproportionately held factory jobs. a
> foreman comes before the workers and says,"we have a few openings."
> workers tell friends, neighbors, cousins. as a result, the applicant
> pool is all Protestants, and only Protestants get the jobs. no law
> said only Protestants would get the jobs. and censorious attitudes
> didn't have to be particularly strong for people to spread the news to
> their social circles which happened to be overwhelmingly Protestant.
> in such a situation, you would need affirmative action for redress. it
> isn't sufficient to say, there are no discriminatory laws, and the
> censorious attitudes aren't so bad.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook <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
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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