1/ I criticize the way people talk about race a lot, so lemme give just one example of what I think a useful conversation would be: TONS
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6/ in segregated spaces. Not that no one has asked this (great recent This American Life, though that didn't really touch on the liberal
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7/ part of the equation), but it's in a category of question that gets way less attention than certain dumb culture-war flareups that
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you don't think white liberals have racial bias?
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I was shocked at how many of my white liberal neighbors forewent free pre-K & kept their kids in private, homogenous preschools
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One parent said, half-joking, "What's another $20,000?" WHAT INDEED, FELLOW WHITE PERSON. What indeed. Anyway, it starts early, is my point.
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everybody becomes tribal when dealing with their own.
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not that complicated sadly. One's feelings towards one's own tribe trump philosophical belief. No closer tribe than children.
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in other words, no parent is willing to risk their child's future for the purpose of a political position or societal hope
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(that was part of what made the Michael Moore stunt of asking congressman to send their kids to Iraq effective)
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