Isn't this the exact definition of racism ? Imagine if they started putting jewish owned business. It can be both used to promote and discriminate, but in both cases to differenciate people based on skin color. This is absurd.
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#22"Anti-racist" strategies bewilder me. Am I now supposed to consider the skin color of the business owner before shopping there? Because I thought making business decisions based on skin color was racist.
According to "Anti-racists", MLK's dream of "judging people by the content of their character" is now a racist dog-whistle. Not sure when, but eventually the shoe must drop and people realize this so-called "Anti-racism" is an incredibly racist ideology. This is not progress.
How can we provide economic remedy for the centuries of economic warfare against Black Americans if any remedy specifically addressed to Black people is considered 'racist'? How else do we close the black-white wealth gap legacy of legal racism in America if we're not allowed to do anything to help Black people specifically out of fear of "reverse racism"?
Can we worry about getting Black America the economic remedies they deserve after being shut out of wealth for centuries before we pretend we're worried about "black supremacy"?
https://qz.com/1368251/black-income-is-half-that-of-white-ho...
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the whole point is for us to fight amongst ourselves and to sow division.
I don't see how Google adding a black-owned business label might encourage a previously non-racist person to now want to 'fight' black people or feel ill will towards black people.
I think this can happen indirectly and unintentionally as people increasingly segregate into tribes.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see how Google adding a black-owned business label might encourage a previously non-racist person to now want to 'fight' black people or feel ill will towards black people.
You really don’t see how elevating a single race over others might be an issue?
I think it's acceptable to elevate Black people to be on the same level as other races in America as opposed to disadvantaged. I actually think Black America is owed a lot more than what Google is doing here after centuries of legalized racism and being shut out of building wealth, but that's the US government that owes them.
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#25If the business owners choose to broadcast that label then it’s fine.
The only thing I don’t like about this social pattern is that it can over time lead to people becoming more prejudiced. Filter by white-owned, Chinese owned, etc. The worst version of it was when Germany labeled Jewish owned businesses.
The best way to deal with a bug is to not design a system where the bug could appear.
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#26Is this a good thing? Why should I care about the skin color of the owner of a restaurant or business I'm thinking of going to?
You don't have to. I think it's only the Government that should have to provide economic remedies like reparations to close the racial wealth gap/legacy of centuries of legalized racism in the America. I will do my part to support Black Americans as a private individual, but really it's going to take Government action to close the racial wealth gap.
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#27Bad idea. Just like it is/was stupid for them to surface the neo nazi content I've been shown in the last few years, eg. in Google News.
I usually expect more from this company. Has Google gone hopelessly corporate?
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#28This is getting really frustrating. How many tech company equity-based judgement calls are we going to be subjected to, that will not be extended to other groups that aren't the popular favorites of the moment?
How about tags for restaurants owned by poor immigrants? Or how about veterans? Or people who are their family's first people to go to college?
When are we done with this moment, or when does the equity get extended to other equity-worthy groups?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
the whole point is for us to fight amongst ourselves and to sow division.
I don't see how Google adding a black-owned business label might encourage a previously non-racist person to now want to 'fight' black people or feel ill will towards black people.
The white racists are going to avoid the black-owned businesses, and vice-versa, encouraging further self-segregation.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to "Anti-racists", MLK's dream of "judging people by the content of their character" is now a racist dog-whistle. Not sure when, but eventually the shoe must drop and people realize this so-called "Anti-racism" is an incredibly racist ideology. This is not progress.
How can we provide economic remedy for the centuries of economic warfare against Black Americans if any remedy specifically addressed to Black people is considered 'racist'? How else do we close the black-white wealth gap legacy of legal racism in America if we're not allowed to do anything to help Black people specifically out of fear of "reverse racism"? Can we worry about getting Black America the economic remedie…
I should think, perhaps by helping individual people instead. If someone is poor then someone might help them, I suppose. Then it won't be racist, it will be individualistic, it would seem.
Hiring someone for the job should be decided on if they are competent at that job, not on other criteria such as black, white, men, women, taller, religious, etc, unless that is relevant for this kind of job (such as acting in a movie, perhaps).