When has "By helping those well off you help those struggling/by helping the majority you help the minority/by helping whites you help minorities" ever worked in economics? It only smothers the issues those groups go through. Australia is shit for race relations so I'm not even sure why you would bring them up when Aboriginals get treated like absolute shit over there.
Like this mindset is encapsulated in trickle down reaganomics. How exactly has that worked out for the lower class?
Hell looking back through American history will tell you that helping the majority will help the minority...is like completely untrue. But on the flipside helping the minority has always benefited the majority.
You build homes from the bottom up, not top down.
I brought up Australia referring to the rights Social Progress Index, where Australia is number 10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Social_Progress_Index < With regards to women, other sexualities, individual human rights and freedoms. I know very well of the aboriginals, but that stain on their society doesn't bar them from the moniker of being a society with social progress in other areas.
I'm telling you that the social justice achieved by other countries is a byproduct of majority who voted self centeredly and in their own best interest, and minorities benefited from that. All of the equality and opportunity we have in Scandinavia is a direct byproduct of a majority who saw they had something to gain. We pay almost 40% of our taxes to fund free schools and health care. The stronger welfare state for minorities, the disabled, the sick, single mothers, a good pension, strong worker and union protection rights. All of that could only go through due to the majority seeing the benefit for their own selfish sake. minorities end up reaping strong benefits as a byproduct.
tricle-down-economics is when you got all welfare systems because you don't want lazy minorities who are not wearing bootstraps to spend your tax dollars. you want to gut the welfare state. its the complete opposite of what we have and what Bernie Sanders stands for.
I mean, modest proposal, but it's faulty. Ultimately, helping the most vulnerable helps everyone. The other way around tends to gaslight the issues the most vulnerable face.
Like when an immigrant says to a black person, "how can you be suffering? America is so great!" When they are coming in with resources, or a college degree, or a community to be welcomed into. Just because the nation is doing well, doesn't mean anything will be fixed for the most vulnerable of our population.
As for the examples. Australia... I mean the aboriginal plight alone crosses them out. Hate is on the rise STILL in Luxembourg, despite how well they are doing, and xenophobia plagues both Sweden and Switzerland. So that track record is more a cover up.
I am not trying to say that countries with high equality on a scale are less racist. I am saying that people in luxembourg or Sweden are not any less racist than people in the US. It only take a refugee crisis and worsening equality to change the tide. it only take circumstances to give in to fascism. But if you're a minority there still is a lot of opportunity and better odds in some of these countries than in the US.
I know that helping the most vulnerable helps everyone. But that is as fleeting as saying world peace benefits us all. This is the real world and we will never achieve this, so lets look at what actually brings forth equality as seen in other countries. You don't have to convince me, it's everyone else, and they will not be convinced or be less racist until they have close and personal relations with minorities. they don't know any because they are not a factor, and ultimately anyone who is not themselves will not matter when push comes to shove. It's a quagmire.
To make more whites care about minorities you need to have more minorities exposed to and proper integrated as equals, but you cannot do that when minorities statistically are at the bottom and they will be on the bottom until the state inserts better programs, opportunity and protections to let them bypass some of the racist barriers. more exposure and power for minorities changes the winds.
Everything we have in scandinavia is due to these laws. we have the same angst and the same conservatism. but there is more opportunity because the selfish masses see the benefit and wisdom in helping others because they see it as helping themselves. they take high income tax not for minorities but for themselves. and minorities benefit immensely.