The idea that racism is the ultimate evil must be confronted directly. That idea is fundamental to the left, and there's no alternative to the "bad optics" of opposing it.
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Did you see this? https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/116644/the-most-racist-countries-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR11Srj1iXAfOmzKZTrl4sIhfWO8qAkN1EzbDheTqwDN__rKIwUGtGvefp8 … ...
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... Basically shows that if examined non-hysterically "racism" is roughly neutral, and doesn't correlate remotely with anyone's real intuitions of better or worse societies. ...
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... "The Philippines is more racist than Iraq!" -- *shrug*
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... Some pattern to be extracted, though, probably. For instance, the most "racist" Arab countries seem to be the least grotesquely dysfunctional.
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I'd seen those kinds of global surveys and definitely I'd noticed that white countries are low. Overall the nicer countries *are* more open to outsiders and are less explicitly favoring of their own.
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"Nicer" -- maybe. I tend to like mildly racist populations more. They're less dishonest and sanctimonious.
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... Japanese hit the sweet spot.
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They really did. You and I may like it, but many other Americans dislike the culture there. By "nicer" I'm thinking of development levels and GDP per capita, etc--the usual measures where Norway and comparable countries are on top.
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