Post on Relevance

In my last post, I had received a comment asking if I was slavery would be very difficult to avoid based on Aronson's theory. This I think, relates to relevance and current events in the best way possible. No, I do not think slavery was avoidable and that relates to the social status of people in the world today as well as their sexuality, and other things such as religion. People are always going to disagree with a topic such as racism or discriminating against religion or the LGBTQ community. Some will also be very supportive of these topics. I think it is impossible to avoid an issue of this extent because people are always given the option to pick a side. You are either straight or something else, you either agree with racism or you don't, you are either rich or poor. Many people have a bland outlook on issues and they will often turn into a bad issue. With racism, it started with people who disagreed with people of color being together with people that were white, today some of the things start with people disagreeing with being gay or straight and it leads to a verbal war. Of course, all of these issues are unavoidable because just like racism, people agree or disagree. This, however, is just one way of the book relating to current events. In addition, I think that racism got out of hand because many people had a lack of will to work to fix the problem which relates to ongoing problems today.

Many people today are talking about how bad climate change is and yet many people are doing nothing to fix that. This is the same as racism. People were afraid that if they spoke out, they would be an outcast which would look bad on a reputation. People are afraid to admit is they are not straight because some people do not accept that. This was the same with slavery and racism. Many didn't like it but didn't speak out until it became a widespread issue. In an article from The Economic Times, the author states that the reason that we do not take a stand with climate change and other issues is due to ignorance just like racism and discrimination. "There are many problems and dangers that we all face: the massive inequalities that exist in and among the nations, persistence of useless war and violence, the danger of fanaticism of terror, the threats to the environment and to the health of our planet," Gross said during his address as the chief guest at the 52nd convocation of Indian Statistical Institute here."The cause of many of these problems is sheer ignorance - the ignorance of science that could solve many of the world's problems, the ignorance of basic facts such as all of us had a single mother only a few thousand generations ago, makes racism and bigotry still possible while the ignorance of other cultures promote fanatical nationalism.

Today many current events don't relate directly to racism as a whole but the basic principles and ideas such as discriminating against various things and ideas. While many people think that racism has disappeared, that is not true as in other parts of the world, it is still happening. 

Works Cited

Gross, David. "Ignorance Causes Problems like Racism, Bigotry, Fanaticism."
     The Economic Times, 9 Jan. 2018, economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/ science/
     ignorance-causes-problems-like-racism-bigotry-fanaticism-lead-correcting-intro/
     articleshow/62431435.cms?from=mdr. Accessed 29 Mar. 2020.