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At this point, I'm not even sure what's more racist: calling a group of people "lazy and unintelligent", or molly-coddling a group of people because "they need
by puranjay 10y ago
At this point, I'm not even sure what's more racist: calling a group of people "lazy and unintelligent", or molly-coddling a group of people because "they need special attention".
The way the left treats minorities is pretty patronizing, to be frank.
(I say this as a minority)
- gracenotes 10y agoI am not sure what molly-coddling means in this context, but as a single data point you can look at the platform page of a minority advocacy group: [0]. The actual low-level details of many of the policies (if not the headlines) share a lot in common with Sanders' platform, for instance. I'd like to think that, for the most part, trying to address a societal problem like [1] is better than denying that any action is needed, even if the increased visibility causes strife—[2] is of interest here—or we don't get it right the first time. It's hard to discuss because many Americans begin on vastly different pages with vastly different experiences. [0]: https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/ https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/ [1]: http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/systemic-racism-is-real http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/systemic-racism-is-real [2] https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....