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HarpyLibtart's avatar

Let's not start with "we" - you're not we. As someone whose ancestors were slaves, I have ZERO interest in finding 'common ground' with racists/white nationalists/the KKK."Centrism" is not a liberal position, it is the epitome of white privilege to be able to take the attitude "I'm not directly affected by any of these issues, so I can afford to sit above the situation and plaintively cry "why can't we all just get along"?".If you march with Nazi's/KKK members, it is absolutely OK to assume that you hold the same views and as such, pose an immediate and existential threat both to minority persons in the street and society as a whole. Nobody should respond to a person's choice to align themselves with domestic terrorists with more threats of violence, but this 'both sides do it' nonsense is just more cover for racists to use when they try to play the victim after being rightly censured for their unconscionable philosophies.

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SunnyDandThePurpleStuff's avatar

I agree, but I think it's just best to call it bad policy rather than bigoted policy unless you have good evidence that it was made with bigoted intent or you could call it disenfranchisement policy. It dilutes the word to overuse it and imagines Washington as some dichotomy where all laws are made along some spectrum of does this benefit blacks or not when there are a lot of important factors that need to be considered. There are, for example, legitimate arguments, that at a certain point, affirmative action, hurts both black and white people, and people who respectfully delve into that discussion deserve to enter that space without fear of being ostracized as racist.

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