Who is racist?

Racism is where we treat people according to their race without due respect for the personhood.

A non-racist world is not a world without race. But it is a world where people come first and arbitrary features like their age, skin colour, intelligence, disability, religion, hair colour, nationality, employment status come second.

We see racism all the time. A black person in the UK is 62x more likely to stab another black person than you would expect at random. This is likely linked to black people only mixing with other black people. And that means that black people in the UK select their friends based on skin colour and that is racist. The UK is doubly racist because rather than asking black people to mix more with white people, it is asking just white people to mix more with black. the UK establishment is itself racist. 

Right now we have another extreme out break of racism in the UK. There have been more deaths in the on-going Israeli/Palestine War.

A quick look on the internet puts this in perspective.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties?fbclid=IwAR0FeJQQ8apR1sOIgMhWJin1fB7kQPJDbhly4zIGxUXvKa9BHuDbSpqnl64

Fatalities in the Israeli/Palestine war for the 15 year period 1/1/2008 - 19/9/2023:

Palestine: 6,407
Israel: 308

Given that the two countries are of different sizes and Israel is 1.9x as big as Palestine you can increase the Palestine count so the rate of murder matches per capita:

Palestine: 12,173
Israel: 308

Recently 700 Israelis have been killed so the death tolls currently look like this:

Palestine: 12,173
Israel: 1,008

So in the last 15 years for every Israeli killed 6 Palestinians have been killed, and if we scale the two countries that is as if 11 Palestinians have been killed for every Israeli. As non-racists we believe that every human life counts.

To put that in perspective 335 people died on Israel's streets in car accidents in 2019. So the entire effort of the Palestinians to fight the Israelis in 15 years amounts to 3 years of car fatalities. Hardly worth worrying about.  

Now if we are political and allow state murder it is worth pointing out that in any conflict at least 99% of the casualties are always innocent civilians (collateral damage as the US calls it). In the case of the US War on Terror 99.4% of casualties were innocent civilians and that is with the best weapons and best intelligence and yet the US still has to kill 165 innocent people to get just one enemy.

So Israel can claim that Palestinian deaths are terrorist deaths, but we know this is pure unproven wishful thinking. And equally the Palestinian can claim that all the Israeli deaths are terrorist deaths and we know that too is pure unproven wishful thinking. In ALL conflicts it is innocent civilians who are by far the most affected. This is why sane civilians will always try and stop wars at any cost. It is a serious error of judgement to ever promote war as a civilian: your fellow civilians will suffer by far the most for that mistake.

And so how do we explain the western media perspective. They should be reporting a massacre of Palestinians over the years. The evidence is there for a massacre of Palestinians so why are they not saying this.

It can only be because the Western media judges people according to race and a massacre of Palestinians is not important while the relatively trivial loss of Israeli life is important. And so unfortunately the western media and the people working in it are racists.

There is much to do in the world of anti-racism then. Firstly we need educate and change our own racist media.