Afro-pessimism seems like the great intellectual taboo in American culture. It's not for me to affirm or deny, but it certainly is plausible based on, I dunno, 500 years of history. Yet people across the political spectrum refuse to acknowledge it as a possibility.
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That's a pretty fuzzy distinction to apply in practice. A lot of disagreement is rhetorically expressed in terms of rejecting plausibility.
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And I may be misinformed but isn't much of the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates implicitly aligned with AP? If so, there is at least tacit/thematic approval among many liberals.
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Most ideas have people who refuse to acknowledge their plausibility.
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It would look extremely plausible and attractive to white supremacists if they encountered it. Which doesn't prove it's wrong but...
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