Topic: The Profitable Business of Racism, Reverse Racism, and Stereotyping
Let me define the topic title
Racism is the hatred of a person because of his regional heritage, anscestral heritage, religious heritage, or national heritage.
Examples include Anti-Semitism in pre-WWII Germany, Polish hating pre-WWII, racism against blacks, racism against whites, the Japanese pre-WWII, Chinese Hans against other Chinese groups, and so forth. Racism is supposedly different from other forms of hate... such as the hate some people feel to the words Republican, Tea Party, or Socialism. (P.S. I do not hate the word Socialism, I merely hate the damages it can and does do..)
Reverse Racism is where you exhibit racism in response to percieved (real or imagined) racism from others.
Hatred is used lightly here, as other emotions and standards can apply including a feeling of superioroty over others, whether physically, mentally, or religious based.
Most people havd a form of Racism or another.... or at least can be shown to have such. Yes I will explain.
Stereotyping is applying a broad belief about a person or a group. If I say "The best bankers in IC are all Americans" then I am stereotyping. If I say statistics show that the best bankers are Americans then I am not stereotyping. (For the record there are great bankers from everywhere but Antartica... oops another stereotype!)
A common pair of stereotypes I have run into are "Mexicans are hard workers" and "Mexicans are lazy". Surprisingly opposite are they not?
Some stereotypes can be based off of observed facts but without quantifying the facts it is still a stereotype.
Now I imply that racism and et al are good for business. I will prove this. Now not all businesses profit by this, only those whose aims are united with Racism, Reverse Racism, and Stereotyping.
Take the first stereotype "Mexicans are hard working". What sort of business can profit off of that, especially when referencing illegal aliens?
Well the average cost to employ a person legitimately is rather high. Taxes take from what that person earned to what they receive. Some taxes are hidden by making the employer pay them. Other problems include unemployment costs, various regulations on hours and healthcare and more, to potential formations of Unions.
All of those and more make it cost effective to hire an illegal alien who cannot complain about some issues with working conditions, who even if paid the same pre-tax is 90% of the cost, who cannot form a labor union, who will never file an OSHA report, who shall be easily fired where a normal worker might have severe protections... and so forth.
So there is a provable level to where this stereotype can be profitable for others to say, not withstanding political factors as well.
Then there is the United Negro College Fund. This group gets funds due to reverse racism. While the normal college funding systems (grants, scholarships. Loans, etc.) are supposed to be colorblind (or in fact are supposed to be biased for minorities) we have here a group established to help a common group (blacks) and no one else.
Now I am making some people mad... so time to talk about real racism for a second. There is no doubt real racism exists... I am sure I can be 'schooled' upon what racism some members of our community have suffered. I do not need sich schooling. I understand that such racism, while it is much reduced from what it was, still exists. Examples do also go all ways such as the two Black Panthers videotaped calling white people crackers. IT EXISTS-DO NOT TRY TO SAY I DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE RACISM HERE. *Deep Breath*
Now some may say I was stereotyping in saying some anger would happen over my comment. No... there is proof this is beyond a sensitive topic in some regions, that some people express anger at percieved racism, and that there are those who would try for various reasons to misrepresent me and my views.
Next up is the entire process of Equal Opportunity and the Act named that. Statistics is an interesting line of math, at least to me.
Statistics can show some groups are under represented in some industries, and yet not provide a reason. Trucking is one such industry. How many females drive? It is certainly a low number compared to men. It may be as low as 1% female to 99% male. I doubt it is that low... but it is very low.
Why is it so low? I could take guesses, but even if educated to the topic, you just cannot get an equal proportion to work here without some severe imbalances.
There are also statistical regional imbalances. Arizona for instance has a lot higher Latino population than Eskimo population, while Alaska has a lot more Eskimos than Latinos. This humorous example is a little severe, but there is the point hidden under the humor. Some regions simply lack certain minorities or even so called minorities (White men, under the definition are also a minority) are nonexistant entirely! There are sections of Chicago where you would be hard pressed to find a white person living at. There is locations in Phoenix where you won't find a black person, and there are areas of nation you won't find Latinos living at.
So where am I going with this? Lawyers profit off of the stereotype that a statistical imbalance automatically equal racism. And they win this all the time.
Additionally under the EOA there is the problem of qualified labor pools. Sorry music majors, sorry drama doctorates, my apologies to those who got degrees in the arts... a job for a computer tech needs a degree that you do not have.
Sometimes local labor is influenced to get into directions contrary to the actual market conditions.. in some subsets of society this has happened a lot.
Sports benefit from deliberate seeming racism also. How many blacks play Basketball? How many Hockey? Only one problem... that would be a stereotype. Typically (statistics somewhat support this, based upon market identification) a black man will want to play Basketball rather than Hockey and while white guys play hockey, typically it is a certain subset that loves to play hockey.
So in actuality they are probably not being racist as a group, but in statistical representation they are according to a view as enforced by the EOA.
Then there is the likes of Reverened Al Sharpton. The man gets monies to support reverse racism policies.
But while we are here before we move on, there is other racist groups that profit on pure racism. There are businesses that hawk wares to the Aryan Nation, there is Latinos funding La Raza (Literally translated as 'The Race'), and let's not forgetthe Black Panthers.
Yes racism can be profitable.
Now unlike Al Sharpton who promotes racism... I shall offer a solution.
End anything that has a deliberate self bias. If you can replace black, white, Jew, Catholic, Muslim, Hispanic, Pole, Dane, Japanese with another word of some identified group, and change the meaning... then it is racist and should be treated as such. Also Equal Opportunity Acts should be abolished.
This is where I expect but's trying to validate reverse racism. Is reverse murder fine since it counters the first? Is reverse cheating on a spouse really ethical? What about reverse reverse racism? An evil remains an evil, a terrible wrong remains a terrible wrong... regardless of attempts to justify,
The next defense I wish to prevent is profiling, profiling ks not stereotyping, it is a statistics based approach to a situation. Statistics show the major danger to airliners is a 20's aged Middle Eastern Decent male. While other threats exist the average Senator does not represent a threat except to the budget for security at the airlines.
The thing we should hate the most is hate.
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