IM GLAD YOU ASKED JEEThttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/978814404379553792 …
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so in other words you have to be actually John McWhorter to even discuss it, and even then it's tricky
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I think that's true. Another possibility/angle/something: there's lots of hostility about this because any attempt at discussion is seen (correctly?) as an attempt to renegotiate the terms of the truce.
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the truce is already broken though. we have an explicit racist in the white house and a moral panic where blues reflexively call their opponents bigots/racists on a hair trigger.
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it's fraying for sure, possibly not broken? I'm not sure what broken would look like I guess possibly Trump-as-explicit racist is overblown (?), I would guess as a matter of pushing policy he's not so bad compared to most Presidents. maybe Bush II was a lot better actually(!)
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as a matter of pushing policy he's trying to build a border wall and expel brown people with ambiguous immigration status. I'll grant you that he has merely consented to Red congress expected defunding of social welfare programs, and has not pushed that especially aggressively.
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what I think a red attack on the truce would look like: 1. aggressively attacking affirmative action + diversity social programs 2. aggressively attacking employment protections (even if in practice they're ineffective) 3. aggressively cutting social welfare (?) . . .
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4. actively pushing minority disenfranchisement (so, point here) 5. super-aggressive incarceration / brutal policing (same) [I'm sympathetic to arguments that low-income minority communities actually need *more* policing, and better; and that extant policing is badly done]
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