Talk:Racial realism
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A google search will verify the absolute opposition between the Derrick Bell and the Chris Brand versions of racial realism. I restored the opposition. In effect, there seem to be two independent traditions of what the term means that are however linked by a common sense that racial distinctions aren't going to fade away.
- Hi Jim Kalb. I think we may be able to improve the intro sentence:
- "The view that racial distinctions are socially constructed but enduringly important because society insists that they be so. "
- I think this sentence currently can be interpreted as 'racial distinctions are important because society says they are,' which, from a philosophy of logic point of view, doesn't seem like a support for the previous statement. I think we mean 'because society continually reinforces them' or 'doesn't want them to change.'
- Also, 'racial realism' originated as a response to stances that don't believe in racial distinctions, so I think instead of ' society insists they endure,' we mean ' significant portions of society insist they endure.'--Nectarflowed 10:15, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at what I did with the sentence.
I very much wonder why professot Bell has not invented a word of his own for his politically motivated doctrine. The term Racial Realism was first used for the theories like the one of Arthur Jensen. I understand it is question of an orwellian re-use of terms for the opposite what the term originally meant. But must Wikipedia support this kind of orwellian use of words. JAA (a user of finnish wikipedia) 1 April 2006
