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.... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2020 1:51 pm
by erol
Came across this recently (thanks to the person who's fb repost led me too it, you know who you are). It is old and also entirely current imo.


Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2020 2:40 pm
by Cally
I'm assuming there should be an attachment Erol.....

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2020 2:59 pm
by Keithcaley
Erol used the forum's integrated tool to post a Youtube clip - which unfortunately does not seem to work with Android devices...

Here's the link: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2020 8:33 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Thu 18 Jun 2020 1:51 pm
Came across this recently (thanks to the person who's fb repost led me too it, you know who you are). It is old and also entirely current imo.



https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... -elliott-4

The woman’s a zealot who seems to create division to prove division.
The way the ‘experiment’ was set up was contrived rather than natural but I guess when you are a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2020 9:09 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Thu 18 Jun 2020 8:33 pm
erol wrote:
Thu 18 Jun 2020 1:51 pm
Came across this recently (thanks to the person who's fb repost led me too it, you know who you are). It is old and also entirely current imo.



https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... -elliott-4

The woman’s a zealot who seems to create division to prove division.
The way the ‘experiment’ was set up was contrived rather than natural but I guess when you are a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Well those that experienced her experiment as young children all seemed to speak well of it 15 years later ? The improvement in education attainment seemed real as well, not just short term but long term as well. I also do not think she is seeking to prove division. I think the division post Luther King being shot and today for that matter is pretty self evident. Seems more like she was seeking to find an effective way of teaching why division based on something as arbitrary as eye colour or skin colour is so problematic and how that feels if you are on the loosing end of it and exactly how reinforcement or such arbitrary stereotypes works. Not just to children but to adults as well. I certainly learnt stuff just from watching the documentary.

I used to think the vast majority really wanted to end discrimination vastly more and quicker than we have managed to date but the issue was we did not know how to do it. On discovering this educator and her work from the 1968 on wards I am staring to question that assumption.

Not read your guardian link yet.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 6:48 am
by Keithcaley
I thought that it increased the children's awareness of what discrimination feels like, and of how unfair and arbitrary it is.

Wan't that the main aim?

Isn't that a good thing?

Why argue about anything else?

(unless you just want to argue :) )

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
by EnjoyingTheSun
Keithcaley wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 6:48 am

I thought that it increased the children's awareness of what discrimination feels like, and of how unfair and arbitrary it is.

Wan't that the main aim?

Isn't that a good thing?

Why argue about anything else?

(unless you just want to argue :) )
Why not just be colour blind rather than focus on colour and over compensate.

Did you read the link? I think it gives a flavour of the woman a bit better.

Young kids will naturally play together no matter what their colour. In all likelihood if it is the first time they have seen a person who is a different colour they will naturally be curious about it and ask eachother questions. At this point the likes of Jane Elliott will shut down the conversation calling it a micro aggression or some such nonsense.

The majority of people are fair and decent if maybe a little insular. There are very few racists around these days but it is in some people’s interests to keep promoting it if it is as bad as ever.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:31 am
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Thu 18 Jun 2020 9:09 pm

I think the division post Luther King being shot and today for that matter is pretty self evident.
Do you think BLM help divide or bring us together?
I mean races not Marxists btw.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 9:17 am
by Groucho
I agree with Keith..

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 9:37 am
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
Keithcaley wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 6:48 am

I thought that it increased the children's awareness of what discrimination feels like, and of how unfair and arbitrary it is.

Wan't that the main aim?

Isn't that a good thing?

Why argue about anything else?

(unless you just want to argue :) )
Why not just be colour blind rather than focus on colour and over compensate.

Did you read the link? I think it gives a flavour of the woman a bit better.

Young kids will naturally play together no matter what their colour. In all likelihood if it is the first time they have seen a person who is a different colour they will naturally be curious about it and ask eachother questions. At this point the likes of Jane Elliott will "ooops" down the conversation calling it a micro aggression or some such nonsense.

The majority of people are fair and decent if maybe a little insular. There are very few racists around these days but it is in some people’s interests to keep promoting it if it is as bad as ever.
I see nothing wrong in teaching children what it feels like to be unfairly treated just because of some physical distinction. In teaching them how easy it is to construct false reasons and narratives as to why people with such characteristics are deserving of such treatment and bring it on themselves. You are right that no child is born with a inherent in built to discriminate based on arbitrary groupings based on physical characteristics. They are taught and learn such things. Spending a couple of days in an attempt to inoculate them from the worst impacts of such learning over their lifetime is a valid and useful thing to do imo. I see her lesson as being about teaching children about empathy, not in theory but in actual practice, as much or more than it being about teaching them about racism. I think it is something we should teach more and in this specific way - thorough experience and not lecture. I see no reason why such a lesson should not be experienced by every child. We are talking 2 or maybe three days out of a lifetime of education. I think the benefits gained warrant that. The direct and immediate impact on educational performance was startling and even if that was the only benefit it would imo justify such an exercise being part of a standard curriculum for all children. I am also not convinced by arguments from people who had themselves not experienced the lesson as a child saying that such an exercise is unnecessarily and disproportionately cruel and damaging to children, when matched against the views of those who have experienced it. Nor do I think this kind of exercise, unlike so many others that are taught in schools, teaches that discrimination exits or what the degree of it is. It teaches what such discrimination feels like when you are on the receiving end of it and how easily justification for such discrimination is reinforced. Thus I think it avoids entirely the risk seen in so many other approaches based on 'theory' alone of creating division. Whether and to what degree discrimination exists is not the same as what does discrimination feel like. These are separate things imo and it is my view that understanding what discrimination feels like can only help an individual better judge to what degree it exits or not.

The majority of people are good people. However it is perfectly possible for good people to do bad things by not understanding or realising that they are bad. Walking in some one else's moccasins helps good people to be better by giving them a better appreciation that sometimes good people do bad things through ignorance as to why they are bad. This to me is not rocket science.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
Do you think BLM help divide or bring us together?
I think change happens when enough people decide they want change and make that clear. That is how I see the protest and expressions of support for them that are going on globally. I see your question as no different from asking has the movement for gender equality helped divide us or bring us together ? Has the union movement ? I think large numbers of ordinary people across large parts of the globe are expressing a desire for change on a range of interconnected issues. Expressing that they are not content or satisfied with the degree of change achieved in these areas to date. I think 'we' ignore them and their voices at some considerable degree of peril.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:00 am
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
Why not just be colour blind rather than focus on colour and over compensate.
For me the very language you use here is symptomatic of a failure to properly understand or appreciate what the actual issue is and not because you are a bad person. In turn this leads to you then setting up a 'rather' based on that same failure of understanding.

Colour exists. There is no inherent problem in the reality that all humans have differing skin colour along an infinite spectrum of such. Just denying colour and difference is not a solution because that difference is not the problem

The issue is when groupings based on skin colour are used to determine how someone is treated. The problem is when false commonalities are applied to groups based on these differences in order to justify and sustain power structures. Difference is not he issue. There is also a problem when real commonalities that exist are applied to groups based on skin colour groupings but the wrong 'cause and effect' is used as an explanation. As in the example 'more young black men are in prison because black people are on average less civilised than white'.

We should indeed not focus on colour because that is not the problem. We should imo look at how we have historically used grouping of people based on colour as an arbitrary but convenient means of justifying historic power relationships between groups of people and how that legacy still continues today leading to outcomes that most ordinary normal and essentially good people are not content to accept or ignore any more.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 9:37 am
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
Do you think BLM help divide or bring us together?
I see your question as no different from asking........
A very simple question, totally avoided. What’s new?
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:00 am
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 8:23 am
Why not just be colour blind rather than focus on colour and over compensate.
For me the very language you use here is........
Personally I don’t count up the number of different races in a picture because personally I think that is divisive.

As for the experiment, here’s a thought, how about rather than split a class into blond hair and brown hair and then add conditions such as one will be treated differently to the other eg contriving a result to show what you hope for, why not split them up and then see if when they are put back together again whether they mix easily and equally. You could even move 5 from each group across into the larger different group.
That would be worthwhile and help us understand whether there is unconscious bias etc.

My belief is that humans like any species might be cautious of something or someone that is different to themselves but not necessarily hostile.
The fact that a smaller group or minority might have to compromise to fit in better with a larger group is not unusual or indeed sinister it’s life, the only important thing is that they are not treated unequally.
If a woman walks into a room when 10 men are watching football then she is going to struggle to convince them to switch the television over to Eastenders. That does not make them sexist misogynistic or even anti Eastenders. That bis democracy. What would be biased would be that she is not allowed in the room or while in there watch the television.
There is no racism allowed in law anymore. America went from certain states not allowing black people to share bathrooms or equality on buses to electing a black president within my lifetime. To have a narrative where we are told racism is as bad now as it ever was is both ridiculous and insulting to those who risked and sacrificed so much to get us to where we are today.
As for the whole white privilege thing it is giving an easy excuse to those who don’t wish to take some responsibility and improve themselves. If you consistently tell people they can’t do something but it isn’t their fault then don’t be surprised if they don’t achieve much with their lives.
There are privileges in life. If we look at white privilege in say UK employment then it is easy to point out that in the majority of cases the person interviewing for the job will be white so you may say that if two candidates apply the white person has an advantage. This might be true but to a very small percentage. Your gender or sexuality may give you an advantage. Your attractiveness may give you an advantage. Your height may give you an advantage, most CEOs of major companies are over 6 feet tall.
If you want to examine what is holding black people back maybe look at the lack of a family unit. Something like 80% of black families have one parent. This has increased from 20% in one generation and is significantly higher than white families.
If you look at the data as to how many men of all colours who come from one parent families and are in prison or underachieve academically you will find more of a correlation than simply black or white. Unfortunately many are not interested in that data because it doesn’t suit their narrative.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:24 am
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:00 am

We should indeed not focus on colour because that is not the problem. We should imo look at how we have historically used grouping of people based on colour as an arbitrary but convenient means of justifying historic power relationships between groups of people and how that legacy still continues today leading to outcomes that most ordinary normal and essentially good people are not content to accept or ignore any more.
If you are touching on slavery and the still felt effects of slavery lets look at some facts there that don't get much airing:

There has always been slavery and sadly there still is.

Without going back to Egyptian and Roman times we could look at the millions of white Europeans who were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa during the same era as Britain was active in the slave trade.

Haiti was one of the few countries that abolished slavery independently but still has a quarter of a million slaves now.

Most of the white people who went to America went as indentured servants which was slavery in all but name.

Most of the sharecroppers in the South were white a minute fraction owned slaves or even had anything to do with slavery even as an overseer or suchlike.

King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. Calculate that in today's real terms.

One of his successors, King Gezo, said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up the slave trade.

I haven't traced my family tree back that far but I'd bet vital parts of my anatomy that my descendants were in work houses rather than slave traders so the idea that I should help pay some reparations to the descendants of Tegbesu or Gezo because of my white privilege seems a little unfair.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 12:40 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
One of the chief activists of the BLM movement Shaun King has spoken often of being the victim of racism and hate crimes while growing up in Kentucky and even today. For some reason many don't believe Shaun and think he may be fibbing about his background, I can't quite put my finger on the reason why some might doubt him.
Shaun_King_at_Suffolk_University_7.png

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 12:51 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
A very simple question, totally avoided. What’s new?
What you see as totally avoiding your question I see as you just not being satisfied that I am not giving you the answer you specifically designed the question to try and solicit from me. I just think the question itself is stupid and loaded and essentially meaningless in the context of what I am talking about.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
That would be worthwhile and help us understand whether there is unconscious bias etc.
The exercise is nothing to do with trying to show or understand if there is unconscious bias or not. It is simply and clearly designed to teach children how discrimination based solely on an arbitrary physical characteristic FEELS. I see no issue in teaching children this in this way. I see much benefit in doing so.

A lot of what you go on to write is also just nonsense imo and I reserve and am going to selectively use my right to just ignore it entirely.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
To have a narrative where we are told racism is as bad now as it ever was is both ridiculous and insulting to those who risked and sacrificed so much to get us to where we are today.
This is just imo a massive straw man argument. We all use such arguments to some degree but I personally think you use them to an exceptional degree of both frquency and intensity. I do not think there is anyone who is saying discrimination based on race is as bad today as it ever was. To suggest they are is sheer and utter nonsense imo. I think vast numbers of people are questioning why we are continuing to see certain negative outcomes continue to happen over and over again even in 2020 despite all the progress that has been secured.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
If you consistently tell people they can’t do something but it isn’t their fault then don’t be surprised if they don’t achieve much with their lives.
And what happens if you consistently tell them it IS their fault and not because of anything they themselves might do or do not do but simply because of some unchangeable physical attribute ?

We know the answer to this when a child is subject to that for even a single day, from the experiment. One of the most remarkable results from it was not just that within 24 hours it negatively affected educational achievement when children were in the discriminated group and positively affected it when they went in to the 'top' group, but it also affected statistically affected performance of every child that did the experiment long after the experiment ended vs those that did not do it. I think the reason why this happened is that by having been in the experiment at some level children internalised just how much such performance was not just related to their actual skills and abilities. thus mitigating such effects on them going forward.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
If we look at white privilege ...
I think you just fundamentally misunderstand what the phrase white privilege actually means. Try thinking about 'female privilege' or in your case probably more effective 'non Jewish privilege' and you might get a better perspective imo. It means the advantages you do notice and can only really notice and feel when you are not in the privileged group.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
If you want to examine what is holding black people back maybe look at the lack of a family unit. Something like 80% of black families have one parent. This has increased from 20% in one generation and is significantly higher than white families.
I just do not trust your figures at all. Certainly no where near as much as I trust these https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.ser ... lds/latest by comparison. They seem entirely made up to me ?

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:16 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:24 am
If you are touching on slavery and the still felt effects of slavery lets look at some facts there that don't get much airing:
For over 350 years lasting until even my parents lifetimes 'white anglo saxon' nations by necessity constructed a false narrative that some groups of people based on skin colour were inherently better than others. Smarter, more hard working, more godly, more creative, more entrepreneurial, more moral, more civilised and cleaner. This narrative was needed to be able to justify using some people as slaves and the colonisation of their lands and countries. The wealth and power that accrued from this subjugation of other peoples , that required the construction and maintenance of this mass belief that some people were better than others based on nothing more than skin colour, was vast. The idea that we have today entirely removed this notion built up and reinforced over 350 years in a mere 60 years is to me not rational or backed up by evidence. I think a vast mass of genuine and good ordinary people are starting to accept and recognise this historical reality and question the role this legacy is still playing in the persistent problems we are still seeing in places like the US and UK. In unprecedented numbers and to unprecedented degrees. To me that is self evident. That you are not one of these people is neither here no there really.

Any way I would ask that we try and keep this thread to the issue of this educational experiment. If you want to start one about the history of slavery and colonisation and if they does or does not have any impact on today then please go ahead. If you want to start one about alleged hypocrisy of specific BLM protesters, then go ahead and start that one. Please let's try and keep this thread about the education experiment that is in the OP.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:37 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:16 pm
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:24 am
If you are touching on slavery and the still felt effects of slavery lets look at some facts there that don't get much airing:
For over 350 years lasting until even my parents lifetimes 'white anglo saxon' nations.........
So no Barbary Pirates then?
Slavery/racism is a white anglo saxon invention?

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:50 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:16 pm

Please let's try and keep this thread about the education experiment that is in the OP.
OK shall we ask some 4 year old children that if you took two cats and beat and starved one and pampered and fed the other one would the outcome be the same? 99% of them would get the answer correct proving there is zero educational merit in this contrived experiment,
How could I possibly know what It is like for Shaun King to cope as a black man?
Shaun_King_at_Suffolk_University_7.png


All the experiment proves is that our teachers have using their position to indoctrinate our children rather than teach them how to add up and read is not a recent phenomenon.

Is there anything now that encourages racism? Is there any law that doesn't prosecute racism?

I'm sincerely sorry you didn't get the chance to be a civil rights fighter and that battle was won without you.
If you want to do some good closer to home maybe look at why the government of your country which we live in consistently discriminates against non Turkish Cypriots? Maybe come up with some of your famous polls and ask why Africans and Pakistanis who had contributed into the system had to rely on charity?

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:59 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 12:51 pm

I think you just fundamentally misunderstand what the phrase white privilege actually means.
I fundamentally can smell BS a mile away its one of the few gifts I have.

Life is full of 'privileges' and advantages. Height, sex, sexuality, health, looks, race etc etc etc. They effect all but the luckiest. Generally most tick one or two boxes and not others. Some overcome them, some use them as an excuse why they didn't have more success in their life. Some use them to patronise people to convince them they need a savior and they can be it.

But equality of opportunity doesn't equal equality of outcome.
You can buy the same golfing equipment as Tiger Woods, be on the same course, with the same coach and caddy, but you wont shoot the same score as Tiger Woods.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 2:24 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 12:51 pm
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:56 am
If you want to examine what is holding black people back maybe look at the lack of a family unit. Something like 80% of black families have one parent. This has increased from 20% in one generation and is significantly higher than white families.
I just do not trust your figures at all. Certainly no where near as much as I trust these https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.ser ... lds/latest by comparison. They seem entirely made up to me ?
Well Walter Williams seems to think so
https://www.creators.com/read/walter-wi ... ck-tragedy


Oh and before you try to shoot the messenger if you don't like the message, this is Walter Williams
williams.jpg
I realise of course that he can't possibly be able to empathise with Shaun King's lived experience, being a totally different colour but....

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 3:29 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:37 pm
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:16 pm
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:24 am
If you are touching on slavery and the still felt effects of slavery lets look at some facts there that don't get much airing:
For over 350 years lasting until even my parents lifetimes 'white anglo saxon' nations.........
So no Barbary Pirates then?
Slavery/racism is a white anglo saxon invention?
The systemic social problems that ordinary people in places like the north coast of Algeria and Tunisia experience today in 2020 nor the relative wealth of those places today are not connected to their histories as nations to historic slavery and colonialism in the same way they are in place like the US and UK and Australia. As far as the systemic social problems they have there are connected to their history of slavery and colonialism then they too will need to honestly recognise this history if they hope to address those problems, just as we are recognising we need to do.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 3:42 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:59 pm
I fundamentally can smell BS a mile away its one of the few gifts I have.

Life is full of 'privileges' and advantages. Height, sex, sexuality, health, looks, race etc etc etc. They effect all but the luckiest. Generally most tick one or two boxes and not others. Some overcome them, some use them as an excuse why they didn't have more success in their life. Some use them to patronise people to convince them they need a savior and they can be it.

But equality of opportunity doesn't equal equality of outcome.
You can buy the same golfing equipment as Tiger Woods, be on the same course, with the same coach and caddy, but you wont shoot the same score as Tiger Woods.
We did not spend, until a mere 60 years ago, 350 + years constructing maintaining and institutionalising a consistent narrative that short people were less intelligent, less godly, more lazy, more immoral and more dirty than tall people in order to justify the enslavement and colonisation of short people and their lands.

It simply amazes me that you can not see this fundamental difference and even more so that you do so whilst proclaiming how good you BS detector is !

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:01 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 3:42 pm

We did not spend, until a mere 60 years ago
Excellent, we agree that it was in the past. Please stop highlighting divisive dogma from 50 years ago then.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:13 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 3:29 pm

they too will need to honestly recognise this history if they hope to address those problems, just as we are recognising we need to do.
Or they could draw a line under it and look to the future. I no doubt had relatives that were bullied at school but it had zero impact on my lack of success at school.


Do you think Shaun King identifies as black? I guess there is no reason why not if pretty much any man can identify as a woman.
When Shaun got outed as having two white parents he had to out his mother with anecdotal evidence of committing adultery with a light skinned black man!
Ok as we all originate from Africa I’m taking up my right to identify as a black man with as much scientific weight as the majority of our trans activists. As a black man I don’t believe that, bar a minority of bigots, Racism is a problem now.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:17 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 2:24 pm
Well Walter Williams seems to think so
You first present a claim, without citing any source, that "Something like 80% of black families have one parent.". I go on to google and look for UK government statistic on this and discover in seconds that they show something entirely different. What am I supposed to think ? What would you think if I claimed that 80% of women in ultra Orthodox households suffer from physical domestic violence and you go and check government statistics and they show something entirely different ?
All I see here is someone espousing a classic conservative view point that just happens to be applied to the black community in the US but that is equally applicable to any community. The problem of the increase in single parent families, of illegitimate children, of the welfare state, of minimum wage legislation. None of these are narratives that are actually specific to Black communities and any number of conservative voice have and do make exactly the same arguments generally.

What I do not see is anything that matches the claim you made specifically. The closest is the (again un sourced) claim that "Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families". So where did you 80%, that is totaly at odds with offical UK government figures come from ? Your cited article does also make (again un sourced) claim that 'today's black illegitimacy rate [is] nearly 75 percent' but that is an entirely different thing from single parent families.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:41 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:50 pm
Is there any law that doesn't prosecute racism?
The idea that because there is legislation to try and prevent discrimination, this means the problem has been solved should be sending your BS detector crazy. We have had 50 years of legislation in UK to try and stop women being paid less than men for doing the same work and the problem still persists. What would indicate the problem has been solved is not the existence of legislation but the absence of it because it is no longer necessary.
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 1:50 pm
Maybe come up with some of your famous polls and ask why Africans and Pakistanis who had contributed into the system had to rely on charity?
I oppose unfair discrimination anywhere. To imply that I do not is just entirely untrue. As I pointed out the first time you made this unfounded attack on my character the truth is I have done more than most and more than you to try and help those subject to unfair discrimination here in the TRNC. I have done and do this as well as talking about discrimination generally and racism specifically in the UK and elsewhere, because these things are not zero sum where you can either do one or the other. You can do both and I do. None of your false accusations or false dichotomies of zero sum situations changes this reality.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:58 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:13 pm
Ok as we all originate from Africa I’m taking up my right to identify as a black man with as much scientific weight as the majority of our trans activists. As a black man I don’t believe that, bar a minority of bigots, Racism is a problem now.
Frankly I find this line of 'argument' puerile and childish in the extreme. What you chose to believe , what ever your status is or how you chose to identity, bears absolutely no relation to what reality is.

What is more and in a no doubt entirely futile effort to get back on topic, your whole approach is, as so frequently is the case in my experience, deeply and fundamentally inconsistent. In the case of the experiment that is the subject of this thread the unanimous opinion of those who actually experienced the experiment as young children, 15 years on, is entirely positive. Yet you chose in this case to ignore that reality entirely and instead refer to focus on an 'ivory tower academic guardian journalist' as 'authority' on what is wrong with it.

I will not call for the thread to be closed because I do not do that but as the thread starter and given that there seems to be little interest in discussing the actual topic of this thread, I think I am done. ((/))

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:03 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:41 pm

We have had 50 years of legislation in UK to try and stop women being paid less than men for doing the same work and the problem still persists
Easily sorted, a woman just needs to point out where she is equally qualified with equal experience doing the same job but is paid less than a man and any court in the land will award her a very large sum of money. But it is also easy to show that a woman CEO of a chain of 6 laundrettes is earning less than the CEO of British Gas and say the male CEO is earning x whereas the woman CEO is earning y when the comparison is apples and oranges.
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:41 pm

I oppose unfair discrimination anywhere.
So you would say there is more discrimination of minorities in America which is thousands of miles away than a little closer to home?
Personally I am always more interested in what happens in my own backyard or where I have connections than in countries I have nothing to do with.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:06 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:01 pm
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 3:42 pm

We did not spend, until a mere 60 years ago
Excellent, we agree that it was in the past. Please stop highlighting divisive dogma from 50 years ago then.
If you would stop trying to pretend that the affects of 350 years of intentful and necessary discriminatory narrative building and embedding that narrative in to the institutional structure of the UK does not and can not possibly still be connected a mere 60- years later to the kind of persistent lack of change in outcomes that has led to vast numbers of ordinary people across the UK protesting and supporting such protest, then I would not need to would I ?

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:08 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:03 pm
Easily sorted,...
The idea that legislation prohibiting discrimination solves discrimination is about as sensible and true as the idea that legislation prohibiting knife crime solves knife crime. It is the argument of a child imo.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:15 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 4:58 pm


the subject of this thread the unanimous opinion of those who actually experienced the experiment as young children, 15 years on, is entirely positive. Yet you chose in this case to ignore that reality entirely and instead refer to focus on an 'ivory tower academic guardian journalist' as 'authority' on what is wrong with it.

I will not call for the thread to be closed because I do not do that but as the thread starter and given that there seems to be little interest in discussing the actual topic of this thread, I think I am done. ((/))
The experiment was 50 years ago and is very well known so it’s hardly news.
As for the pupils that were the subject of the experiment, asking a select few 15 years later when they would have been 23 and fresh out of college isn’t necessarily going to get the same answer as asking all of them at 50. This is why Labour is desperate to reduce the voting age to 16 because they realise people grow up and dogma wears off.

As for quoting a Guardian journalist who seems to Me to indicate that the women is a zealot, if I quote anyone from any other paper you will dismiss it as right wing nonsense so I’m a bit stuck.

Ok Erol you are 100% right as always and the majority of English and American people are racist and please can you post some regulations from 1960 Alabama to show current affairs.

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:20 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:06 pm

If you would stop trying to pretend that the affects of 350 years of intentful and necessary discriminatory narrative.........
All I know is when I used to hire people I just used to hire the best people for the job. I hired lots of black people and much as I’d like to say I did to help cleanse the stain of slavery and hundreds of years of racism, I never gave it much thought I just hired them on ability. Maybe I was inhibiting a micro aggression or whatever is this weeks BS soundbite

Re: .... this is America , discrimination and education

Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:28 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote:
Fri 19 Jun 2020 5:08 pm

The idea that legislation prohibiting discrimination solves discrimination is about as sensible and true as the idea that legislation prohibiting knife crime solves knife crime. It is the argument of a child imo.
Well to be honest you probably don’t believe sending a murderer to prison for life doesn’t do much to stop murders but I can assure you it will put more murderers off then giving them 5 years and a lot of rehabilitation.
So what do you want, we do nothing and then you can pretend that it never improves forever or just go round self loathing because of what happened hundreds of years ago.

I’m struggling to square that black people shouldn’t be discriminated against for being black because they can do nothing about the colour of their skin but white people should feel constantly guilty for being white? I can’t see one part of that sum being correct without seeing the other the other half of the sum being wrong.