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> The same calculus is at the root of non-lower-class whites (as well as nearly everyone of high status) in the US avoiding neighborhoods with blacks and latin

> The same calculus is at the root of non-lower-class whites (as well as nearly everyone of high status) in the US avoiding neighborhoods with blacks and latinos. You know what I'm black, my spouse is white, and what do I tell her? "better safe than sorry". Sure if my spouse acted that way, we would have never met. I believe in personal responsibility, I also believe we have a responsibility to display an image other than the one displayed by "statistics", Hollywood and other cheap entertainment. When a white woman changes sides of pavement when I walk toward her minding my own business, I understand. It breaks my heart but I understand.

mikelyons 8y ago
Those who are against racial interbreeding will be huge #meToo proponents simply because it will obviously have this effect of drastically increasing the risk of interracial relations, it'll become more like it used to be, the threat of legal violence will re-justify the male fear of approaching a woman he's attracted to. Only the violence wont be another man with a club like it once was, but the state being wielded as a cudgel by women and racists in influential cultural positions.
dgzl 8y ago
You're not wrong, but business is different than personal life. Within my family and the people I trust, I'll say and do things that outsiders might not approve of, and it's none of their business. However in a business, the entire point is just business, and whatever it takes to make it better. The intersection of business and personal-trust is the grey area. Should I be square all the time at work, and mitigate as much risk as possible? Or can I relax on my break and try starting a conversion with the attractive woman eating by herself? The #meToo movement has shown that the grey area is certainly 'risky'.

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> The same calculus is at the root of non-lower-class whites (as well as nearly everyone of high status) in the US avoiding neighborhoods with blacks and latin

by interesthrow2 8y ago

mikelyons 8y ago
Those who are against racial interbreeding will be huge #meToo proponents simply because it will obviously have this effect of drastically increasing the risk of interracial relations, it'll become more like it used to be, the threat of legal violence will re-justify the male fear of approaching a woman he's attracted to. Only the violence wont be another man with a club like it once was, but the state being wielded as a cudgel by women and racists in influential cultural positions.
dgzl 8y ago
You're not wrong, but business is different than personal life. Within my family and the people I trust, I'll say and do things that outsiders might not approve of, and it's none of their business. However in a business, the entire point is just business, and whatever it takes to make it better. The intersection of business and personal-trust is the grey area. Should I be square all the time at work, and mitigate as much risk as possible? Or can I relax on my break and try starting a conversion with the attractive woman eating by herself? The #meToo movement has shown that the grey area is certainly 'risky'.