I think one of my recurring questions re: the BLM stuff, is that support for what's going on is obviously coming from some deep lack of interest in truth or rigorous analysis. Is this a new thing, or has it always been there and is now just showing up?
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Gotcha, thanks. That is kind of a grab bag of anti-racist zeitgeist, but my take on a lot of what you mentioned is that those are "social media" problems more than "racial justice" ones. Isn't anything that gets spread online going to be sensationalized and soundbyte-optimized?
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I mean, yes - but the thing that worries me about this much more than other social media insanity is that this - with its really poor thinking included - is getting a foothold in big corporations and influential social personalities.
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Starting at the top of your list what are your issues with systemic racism discourse?
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You're just naming things that you disagree with, not making a case for why they're bad.
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That’s not an argument, can you point out specific things you disagree with?
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I’m finding your complaints here a little vague, and you appear to be using a broad brush to paint an entire movement instead of criticizing individual policies. That website appears to call for a one day stoppage to reflect. So what is the precise problem you had with it?
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Well, which parts are you opposed to? Because there are very real, and very clear examples of systemic racism, just looking at numbers killed per capita, the war on drugs (which was, according to a Nixon aide - explicitly intended to target black/hispanic communities) etc.
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That is - there is an issue of race being used as a marker to define people, and while there are many forms and varieties of privileges and marginalisation (economic being huge) they don't cancel each-other out on a population-level, even if there are individual examples.
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