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Originally Posted by Ark2
If everything negative that happens to a minority is construed as racism, then the spectre of racism will never go away, regardless of how much progress is made. That's why you have people today genuinely believing that things have not improved from where we were 50 years ago.
When we are unwilling to differentiate racist behaviour from bad behaviour in general, we will never be able to calm racial tensions. If people are unconcerned with addressing a problem correctly, how likely are we to solve it?
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The otherside of that coin though is then you're giving back the power to the racists as long as they aren't wearing a KKK robe when they do this stuff.
But if anyone truly believes these nurses would have said the same thing to some white "Karen" and this wasn't because this person was Indigenous, they are actively turning a blind eye to racism.
The systemic part was that Ms. Echaquan had received poor treatment enough times that she knew she had to record in the first place. But the nurses were just racist and chalking it up to 'bad behaviour' downplays what happened (and I'm not suggesting this is what you did).
Yeah, calling someone racist because they have a difference of opinion isn't cool, but when you have someone saying they are only good for sex as she lays in agony and ultimately dies, that's when we need to start calling a spade a spade.