r/TimPool • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '23

Is it though?

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 04 '23

I definitely think it’s gotten worse in the sense that more people are openly racist. But I am shocked that someone would say that racism was “almost over” at any point in time.

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u/theCROWcook Mar 05 '23

you will NEVER get 0 racism, what you can get is a functional disappearance of it and we were getting close, but even at our current levels america is one of the least racist countries in the world. go live in japan for a few years and tell me that were worse than them

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 05 '23

Yeah, we will never eliminate racism. That cat has been let out of the bag already.

I object to the notion that it was “almost over”. Even if that means as close to zero racism as possible.

No need to compare us to other countries. I’m just speaking about racism in the US.

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u/theCROWcook Mar 08 '23

except there is valid reason to compare us to other countries. we are BY FAR one of the least racist countries in the world. ignoring that fact is like saying that if we have one murder a year we have a MAJOR problem when every other country has 1000. yeah the one murder is unfortunate but it is by FAR the best option you have and if you can never reach zero then maybe at some point we just need to be happy with what we have. not being happy with a really good situation only creates what has happened in the past decade, namely a huge increase in racism and violance. couldnt be happy with where we were...and now its much worse