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Basically: "Want white people to be much much much worse? Make the 'racist' label unconditional, and they will get much much much worse."

I just fear that most people who make this argument don't realize they're asking for a meaningful sacrifice in exchange for a counterfactual

Yeah. That's why this is a tough sell. Most people alive today haven't experienced the horrors of pre-liberalism white people.

and a lot feel like things have not improved for them since "pre-liberalism white people." Which may well be true.

Maybe. It's not my place to tell black people they're better off without Jim Crow, so I won't. But *I* fear a return to those days.

I kinda think that's the root issue. Easy to be order over justice when the order works for you, and vice versa.

I think the more important question is, how can we advance actual, real-life justice?

I think the more immediate question is, how can you persuade people that your idea of actual real-life justice is the correct one?