• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The analogy is a little shaky but yeah that’s a pretty good intro. The hard issue to solve here is with how this injustice is resolved. I think the most reasonable solution attacks the problem directly: rewriting racist laws (like zoning) and punishing or heavily disincentivising racist behavior in government officials (including police and judges). In the analogy, this would be equivalent to enacting hotel policies against discrimination and retrofitting disabled-accessible options into the building.

    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That still isn’t directly Attacking the problem, you remove racist laws however you still have a system in place to add oppressive laws so they will come back. The problem isn’t the laws or the government officials it’s the whole damn system and unless you change the system it will continue to oppress. The hotel is designed to be discriminatory and to slowly go back to being discriminatory (as you said shaky anlogy) if changes are to be made. The only real solution is tearing the whole hotel down and building a park there