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People are being harassed about minor things all the time in this country. The age of social media has just made it more visible. This summer there has been a t

People are being harassed about minor things all the time in this country. The age of social media has just made it more visible. This summer there has been a trend of stories regarding people (usually white) calling the police on their neighbors (usually black) about things like: wearing socks to a pool, barbecuing, sleeping in the common area of the dormitory, and starting a lemonade stand. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/us/black-white-police.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/us/black-white-police.htm...

jessaustin 8y ago
To take just one example, and assuming that it really is terrible to wear socks in a pool (I know that's not actually terrible)... If the sock-wearer were of the same race, would the white person just complain directly: "Hey this is a family-friendly pool: take those damn socks off!" or would the person not care at all because it's fine for white people to wear socks in the pool? The two possibilities both have racist implications, but different racist implications. I almost feel that in the first case we all just need to get together and talk it over. In the second case the racism is fairly irredeemable...