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@agoraagogo wrote:

dg i do get and respect what you are saying.  i'm just trying to put some perspective on racism in general.

 

there are so many minority groups being slaughtered by majority groups in this world that moderate racial tensions like this seem like a first world problem by comparison.  i'm not saying the discussion and the history is not important however in a country that no longer slaughters it's largest minority group, i think we as a nation have come a long way and we have further to go. i'd rather focus on deaths in custody, health, living and education standards of our indigenous citizens than knitted dolls that my own friends are fine with.

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The issues are related, though, at least as far as I can see it, not separate and they don't / can't have varying degrees applied to them that can make one act of racism more acceptable than another, just because one of them doesn't result in graver things, or death.

Acts of racism that somehow seem acceptable because they're "not as bad" (like dehumanising caricatures), is what contributes to the idea some have that another act, which results is death, is justified.