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Originally Posted by Mythica
You're missing the point I'm making. We can give that help under the all lives matter slogan. Using a black lives matter slogan is just potentially segregating people more which is the exact opposite of what needs to be happening.
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I'm not missing anything at all.
Using the slogan BLM highlights exactly where the focus of efforts needs to be. BLM does not segregate people nor does it imply that other lives matter less.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Of course it exists, all across western society, I don’t think anyone has said otherwise have they?
The West is a predominately white culture, therefore society will reflect that along with other factors. Fear of the other, comfort with familiarity etc.
It has, and is changing, the problem is the change isn’t quick enough, it is generational, and in a country ( I don’t know the % for the western world) that is 90% white the society is inevitably going to be oriented towards that population. It has to be done subtlety or you risk the opposite effect that you are after.
There are plenty of poor disadvantaged white people, that may be asking where their white privilege is? And that is addressed and recognised in the invisible knapsack, and you have take along with you too, if we’re going to get where we need to be.
To move away from white only images on tv and in shops for years more and more BAME faces have been on TV to change peoples perceptions of the demographic of the nation. I’ll guarantee you there are people in this country that have still never scene a black person in the flesh. But if aliens landed and watched adverts on the tv they’d be convinced the U.K. nuclear family is mixed race. My point being instead having a black family or a family of Chinese decent or Pakistani Muslim decent, they think oh we’ll just throw them all in the mix.
So yes, it has to change, it is changing, it will take a long time, longer than people want, you have to take everyone with you.
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That, is a great post.
There's a significant amount of the population who would argue that white privilege doesn't exist. That message has to be drilled home and they have to understand it.
Your bolded part is perhaps one of the most often asked and also most mis construed components.
This change however, needs to be sped up where possible.