Yep. There are two competing beliefs about what will end racism. 1) Focusing intensely on race to become alert to how racism operates on many implicit levels. 2) Treating race as irrelevant to normalise evaluating people individually & make casual racism socially unacceptable.https://twitter.com/IonaItalia/status/998068548156166144 …
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Therefore they fear that identity politics which seek to renormalise thinking in terms of race is likely to be counterproductive & serve only to reignite racial tribalisms which were being overcome.
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When uncharitable, the universal liberals will accuse the IdPols of being racist and the Idpols will accuse the UniLibs of pretending problems don't exist because they themselves are not personally affected by them.
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Sometimes these accusations can be justified but more often they can't and both groups genuinely seek the end of racism but just disagree on how to achieve that. So much conflict between the identitarian left and the universal liberals comes down this.
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Anyone who remembers 1995-2005 (and you can look at poll numbers among black and Hispanic ppl if you think this is just my “privilege” blinding me) knows that we almost had this stuff behind us. The profs, media and polis had to gin it back up to keep their business going.
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There are still problems, but the power-players you’ve mentioned almost universally focus on problems and not on the vast improvements that have occurred. Some say this is irrelevant, but perspective matters. We are being played.
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Exactly. To focus on the improvements points one toward the eventual goal of a finite “this is as good as we can hope for” endpoint, which means the end of $$$ for the hucksters and race-baiters.
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