Racism and (Real) Justice

Racism, the belief that ‘races’ of people can be identified and that people can be ranked as superior/inferior (therefore more or less deserving of the benefits of society) based on race, is just that — a belief. Equality, the belief that people cannot be ranked as superior/inferior based on ‘race’ (or nationality, or ethnicity, or gender, etc.), is also a belief.

Since we humans have no way of disproving any belief, all beliefs are perfectly valid for their believers. In conflicts based on beliefs all parties to the conflict believe their side must achieve total victory or endure total defeat.

So achieving justice obviously requires that the ethic of justice, which must govern the governance of society, must be strictly rational, involving no beliefs: “Real Justice (summarized for a ‘5 min read’)” here in Medium.

Surely everyone can spare ‘5 mins’ for justice.