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Racism solutions
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- Introduce stricter laws against hate crimes
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The positives of this solution is that people will face the punishments that they deserve for discrimination against others. This could also reduce rates of hate crime relative to racism due to the fact that people will be less inclined to discriminate out of fear of the punishment. The negative of this is that although it may reduce the rate of hate crimes involving racism, it may not actually teach people that racism is wrong, only stop them from making acts of racism
Introduce stricter laws against racist verbal acts, increasing the fines to prevent people from saying anything racist to others
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/discrimination-race-relations-policy.htm "The Race Relation Act of 1965 aimed to prevent racial discrimination. However, it was a weak piece of legislation and only spoke of discrimination in specified 'places of public resort', such as hotels and restaurants, as being illegal." "The act did not effectively address discrimination in the increasingly crucial areas of employment and housing. The emphasis was on pacification rather than criminal sanction."
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The positives of this solution is that it will help educate children from a young age, and this knowledge will arguably carry on into their adult lives, and they'll be able to educate their own kids in future with the knowledge they have. The negatives of this are that television is becoming outdated, so not many kids will see it, also another negative is that kids might not want to pay attention to an advert because it is boring
Government advertisements suitable for the younger generation that aim to combat racism and allow children to grow up without the thought of racism. These adverts could have phrases such as "it's not cool to be mean to others" etc.
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/itv-wins-plaudits-anti-racism-ad-support-diversity/1694937ITV has won plaudits for running an anti-racism ad in support of dance group Diversity, following complaints about its Black Lives Matter-themed performance on Britain’s Got Talent. The print ad, created by ITV’s ad agency Uncommon Creative Studio, appeared in national newspapers and social media on Saturday (19 September) – two days after Ofcom, the media regulator, dismissed more than 24,000 complaints about the broadcast and defended the importance of what it called “freedom of expression”.
- Bigger punishments for students that say/do anything moderately racist such as making racist jokes, in primary and secondary schools.
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The positives of this is that it will possibly encourage kids to think more about what they say and prevent them from saying racist comments. Parents will also convince their kids not to say these things and might educate them because they won't want their kids to get suspended or expelled. The negatives of this is that you could argue that they are too young to be receiving life changing punishments like that and that they may learn and change in the future.
https://restorativejustice.org.uk/blog/zero-tolerance-and-tackling-racism-restoratively-uk-education"For the principle of zero tolerance of racism to work in practice it would need to be understood by everyone in a school community, and ‘owned’ collectively. In many schools there is an area of confusion in which a traditional system oppresses while claiming not to discriminate. Many school staff have yet to learn to see racism as a pervasive and accumulative contributor to inequality, interactive with economic and other social structural issues. "
Students that are caught making any racist comments get suspended or expelled depending on how extreme the comment was. Make it mandatory for it to go on the individuals record for when applying for universities and colleges. A
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