Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: Reading the many posts by npub14ukaj…s2erc on structural racism in the USA (and I ...
Reading the many posts by npub14ukaj9jxt92unn28r7z42n475c7u6typ2cu8wyur4eqrk67tyz9sxs2erc (npub14uk…2erc) on structural racism in the USA (and I do recommend you follow him if you are interested in the topic at all), I suspect the following is true about much of Europe:
There is less overall structural #racism in Europe than in the USA - not because white Europeans are any less racist than white Americans (I don't think that they are), but because embedding structural racism into the laws and structures of society was never as much of a policy goal in modern European nations as it was in the USA since their founding.
However, I also think that far fewer Europeans are aware that structural racism is even a thing, even among people who would describe themselves as "progressive". Statements like "I don't see color!" are common, and those who utter them believe themselves to be open-minded rather than clueless.
And at least here in Germany, the thought processes about racism start and end with:
"Nazis are racists. I am not a Nazi, therefore I am not racist!"
There is less overall structural #racism in Europe than in the USA - not because white Europeans are any less racist than white Americans (I don't think that they are), but because embedding structural racism into the laws and structures of society was never as much of a policy goal in modern European nations as it was in the USA since their founding.
However, I also think that far fewer Europeans are aware that structural racism is even a thing, even among people who would describe themselves as "progressive". Statements like "I don't see color!" are common, and those who utter them believe themselves to be open-minded rather than clueless.
And at least here in Germany, the thought processes about racism start and end with:
"Nazis are racists. I am not a Nazi, therefore I am not racist!"