Coucoumellisms

If you judge a group of people by their worst individuals, then NO group of people is innocent of hateful crimes and if you judge each individual by the social/ethnic groups they find themselves in, then every individual must be guilty of hateful crimes. This is what Marxism looks like. It doesn't care about the individuals, it only cares about the ideology. It puts people in groups and pits "haves" against "have nots" or "aggressors" against "victims" without ever looking at the individual actions of a person. Marxism would have you judge every individual based on WHAT they are and not WHO they are. If you do not judge all teachers or sports coaches based on the actions of the worst among them, if you do not judge all Hollywood directors based on the actions of the worst of them, then neither can you judge ALL priests nor ALL police officers based on the actions of the worst of them. There are sexual predators, physical abusers, and abusers ...

I read through this document called Catholic Social Teaching and Racism. I want to comment on the following bits of it. The Many Faces of Racism: "Catholic teaching “emphasizes not only the individual conscience, but also the political, legal and economic structures...”[6] Racism is about people and about group behaviors and societal organization. Individual racism includes conscious acts, spontaneous attitudes, “the tendency to stereotype and marginalize,”[7] indifference, and “the triumph of private concern over public responsibility…” [8] "Laws such as U.S. segregation or South Africa’s apartheid [9] represent blatant systemic racism. More subtle racism treats groups as “second-class citizens with regard, for instance, to higher education, to housing, to employment and especially to public… services...”[10] Even more subtle racism is now masked in appeals to equality that guarantee that past inequalities are perpetuated by blocking corrective efforts. “At times protestati...

I don't know if any of this might also pertain to African Americans in the States, but I grew up in Northern Canada, among Cree people. Many of them had problems with alcohol, broken homes, depression, etc. No one talked about "intergenerational trauma" back in the '70s and '80s or the effects of residential schools. I've only started to hear about that in the last 10-15 years or so. But it makes sense to me. Generations of children were taken from their parents and brought up in institutions designed to strip their language and culture from them, turn them in to "Europeanized", good, Christian "Indians" whereupon they were returned to their communities - where they were lost because they did not know how to live out on the land, did not know the ways of their people anymore, did not have the proper means to support themselves because a European education was worthless in a community that didn't have European style jobs. Their people we...