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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Oh... yeah... that's not true at all. It's not even a policy.
Do you believe any consideration or accountance of negative circumstances primary felt more strongly by one part of the population over another is "racialist"? Should no policy or movement exist to account for negative issues if they're not felt equally by the entire population?
Makes sense to consider a person's circumstances and history when sentencing. Happens quite regularly already, this simple suggests that systemic racism be weighed. It's not like white people go to prison and don't have their history and circumstances weighed in sentencing.
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Absolutely it does. But that's looking at people as individuals and their specific circumstances, not their race. Will Smith's kids should not get special sentencing. This race consideration is so coarse and inelegant, it's borderline anti-progressive by some on the left's insistence to bring race into every aspect of life.
Maybe I'm completely wrong but I think the way forward as a society is to talk less about race, not more. This game of historical greivances has to stop, the reason a hypothetical chinese guy robs a liquor store is because that is a choice he made, not because his great grandfather suffered horrible racism building the railroad. A lot of horrible stuff happened even in recent history and it shouldn't be forgotten, but I don't think it should be used as an excuse going indefinitely into the future.
Just my two cents but hey, I'm a white guy so whatevs.