I don’t know whether it properly belongs with law or ethics, but it certainly belongs in that domain.
One thing that has horrified me, possibly above all others in this awful crisis, is the extreme and rapid rise of overt and blatant racist physical attacks and misbehaviour. It has been seen in many ways: verbal harassment on the street, physical attacks on transit, racist graffiti, all the way up to shunning migrants and the closing of borders where no real need exists.
It is, possibly, because I am Canadian that I find it so deeply disturbing. Canada is not, unfortunately, immune to racism, but we do have, as a national characteristic, tolerance-to-the-point-of-vice. We are, much more than the United States, a cosmopolitan and polyglot society. Where Americans talk about the “melting pot,” where everyone comes to the US and becomes American, Canada talks of the cultural mosaic, where everyone comes to Canada and contributes something from their point of origin. There is a national joke that the definition of a Canadian is a DP with seniority. For those not from Canada I have to explain that DP stands for “displaced person,” an old term (dating from the two world wars) for refugee, but also that DP is, itself, a racist term. Thus the joke is not just about the demographic composition of the country (every Canadian is a DP: even the First Nations peoples came here from somewhere else [most likely Siberia]), but is also a sly dig at racism itself (and a slightly more overt self-mockery of Canadians who may think they are above, or immune to, racism). (Canadian jokes do tend to be complex and layered. Sorry.)
The Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests may relate to whatever cultural forces are behind the racism. As previously noted, racial bias in law enforcement is nothing new, and is widely known and acknowledged, although mostly without being effectively addressed. There have been other deaths, and other protests. Colin Kaepernick had his own, completely non-violent, protest for many years. But society seems to have been ready, at this point, to take a more serious look at the issue. It will not be fixed overnight, but it would be heartening if some meaningful change came out of this terrible mess.
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