Noisy bigots drown out silent bias

Waleed Aly observes that Noisy bigots drown out silent bias.

Aly writes that:

No, our real problem is the subterranean racism that goes largely unremarked upon and that we seem unable even to detect. Like the racism revealed by an Australian National University study, which found you are significantly less likely to get a job interview if you have a non-European name. The researchers sent fake CVs in response to job advertisements, changing only the name of the applicant. It turns out that if your surname is Chinese, you have to apply for 68 per cent more jobs to get the same number of interviews as an Anglo-Australian. If you are Middle Eastern, it's 64 per cent. If you are indigenous, 35 per cent.

This is the polite racism of the educated middle class. It's not as shocking as the viral racist tirades we've seen lately. No doubt the human resources managers behind these statistics would be genuinely appalled by such acts of brazen, overt racism. Indeed, they probably enforce racial discrimination rules in their workplace and are proud to do so. Nonetheless, theirs is surely a more devastating, enduring racism. There is no event to film, just the daily, invisible operation of a silent, pervasive prejudice. It does not get called out. It's just the way things are; a structure of society.

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Malcolm X is reported to have once said that he would rather talk to a red-neck racist than to a liberal because the former is racist to your face, while the latter is racist behind your back. He is reported to have said that you cannot have Capitalism without racism.

The Capitalist needs racism to divide the international working class, and to justify the daily atrocities that it commits through stravation, war, poverty, prisons, and lack of medical care.