HexU
I will quote you in italics below, as the thread has moved on a bit:
Surely safety issue are not racisms as white poor countries can have poor safety standards or white minorities in poor non white countries suffer them the same - it's what there government enforces and what the multinational companies can get away with.
I strongly disagree. The reason why so many third world countries have lax safety standards, a cheap, poorly-educated labour force, and poor health and living standards for their populations is precisely because of historical reasons. Just about every part of the world was ruled by Western powers, whose empires by today's standards were explicitly racist. And I very much include the British Empire in that assessment, notwithstanding that its standard of administration was comparatively good. These countries are still very much ripe for exploitation by developed countries and still are.
When you buy a skirt from Primark or most other high street stores, you are engaging in that continuing exploitation, whether you like it or not.
There has been an attempt in this thread to frame sexism and racism purely with reference to how these things are experienced in middle England suburbs. This, of course, conveniently shoves the exploited third world out of sight and mind, and allows people who with to claim they are the victim of some "ism" to forget how extremely privileged they are in international terms.
And I really do disagree that what I've posted on this thread shuts people out of the debate. All I've said, right from the very first, is that it is silly to compare sexism to racism and conclude that the former is treated as "less" of a problem. Naturally, I think both are problems.