Not if all kinds of discrimination is forbidden by law. Like discrimination due to pigmentation, or religion. Those kinds of discrimination need to be fought, and in the education system, stressing how silly they are, because there's nothing in the skin pigmentation that can predict abilities, attitudes or skills.

You mean this?
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I would like to think they have a more complete plan, too. It's hard to say though... i think in the end it will have good consequences. Also, i think it should be something a bit more global.

Well, Sweden, through their democratically elected government, has decided this.

What about the mulattos? And the tanned whites? And darker skinned whites? And fair skinned Asians? and dark skinned Asians?...

Skin color has a deep connection with social class, i will not dispute that. And i don't dispute that it will be much harder to get rid of. But not racism, because racism isn't merely about…

Yes, i understand that, but that is my whole point. The concept of race has no reality behind it. It only has the persistence of the word itself to go by.

Not really hardcore. More like softcore Whorfism. I don't think we can eliminate something from existence by eliminating the word. But we eliminate a concept that refers to a non-reality by eliminating the word. Talking about human races is nonsensical, as it would be talking about human lightnings or human wheels.…

And in any case, i don't think that getting rid of the world will solve all the problems, instantly. But i think it's the only long term solution. Meanwhile we will have to do other things to combat racism, obviously.

Certainly, i agree that it can't be the only measure taken against racism. My position is that this measure is the only one that can remove racism forever, but in the long term. Meanwhile, we obviously need other measures.

In which sense would it make attempts to address social inequalities impossible? I understand that affirmative action policies do not address race directly, but the average income of the neighbourhood of where people live.

People don't realize the influence words and language have in the way we think. If we get rid of one word, or at least make that word lose "prestige" as word, people will use it less, or use it less accurately, and eventually it will lose all meaning (as it should, because race is not a thing). And by getting rid of…

Ethnicism reduces the distance considerably. By sticking to the ethnic differences, the distance between native Swedes and immigrants is the same as between Swedes and Finns. The immigrants are suddenly not these beings of a different race, completely different to you, just people that look a bit different, like the…

The idea is to eventually eliminate race from the language altogether.

Ethnicity is a social construct that has a correspondence with something real: language, cultural traditions, etc. Race is a social construct that has no correspondence with anything real. Race literally means nothing, it doesn't exist. I think it's very healthy to put that word out of circulation.

The idea is to eventually eliminate race from the language altogether.

Language affects deeply to our thinking categories. And then we act in accordance to those categories. We created the word "race" because we thought that race was a thing, something that had actual existence. But now we know it doesn't, so that…

I see your "grammar nazi" with my "I'm not a native speaker" and raise you a "Lilly is is the correct spelling of the flower".

Look, we have the same culture of cops covering each other, even the bad apples here in Spain. And police over here rarely shoots, and there isn't a demographic equivalent to the African Americans in Spain (there's the Roma, but they largely keep to themselves and there's a lot less of them in Spain than there's…

And why do police feel like they have to cover each other?

Wow. O_o

Hey, that looks like Lilly!