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Keep what in mind? The author asks us to do all the work for him. The comments to that post do a pretty good job pointing out the shortcomings of the author's
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
Keep what in mind? The author asks us to do all the work for him.
The comments to that post do a pretty good job pointing out the shortcomings of the author's noncommittal point. Check them out before you decide on what to "keep in mind."
Facts aren't racist. The author didn't even try to claim it, just said that claim could be hand-waved somehow (and tasks that leap for us, the reader) out of an example of selective coverage.
- eat_veggies 6y agoSure, let's keep the whole discussion (i.e. "this") in mind then, rather than any one specific claim that may or may not be in there. There is room for nuance here, and that's exactly what we'll need, rather than a binary of "facts can/can't be racist." I've read the thread (thanks for insinuating I didn't!) and many commenters concede that while facts may not be racist, the context and motivations behind presenting them can be racist. And there never really is a pure "fact" isolated from a context, is there? So to attempt to apply the claim that a fact can't be racist (or ask "why bring race into this?") to a real-world situation is to take the fact in isolation, which is a mistake. Keep that in mind.