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I get it, and I agree with you 90%. But I think what we've (wealthier, white-er Americans) learned about race in the last 24 months shows that there's a big dif
by maybelsyrup 5y ago
I get it, and I agree with you 90%. But I think what we've (wealthier, white-er Americans) learned about race in the last 24 months shows that there's a big difference between "isolated incidents" and "decentralized but widespread behavior". I think that with respect to stuff like this, the second phrase is a better description. Any of these things are Gestapo tactics, the stuff of European and Latin American nightmare; the fact that they're not all coordinated out an office in DC is more an American curiosity than a point in their favor. At least that's my view.
- pjc50 5y ago> Any of these things are Gestapo tactics, the stuff of European and Latin American nightmare Absolutely correct. But there's always a chunk of people who want to be in the Gestapo, or have someone to report their neighbours to. My use of "isolated incidents" was ironic in that's the phrase always used to cover systematic problems that people don't want to address. You can have a lot of isolated incidents if you refuse to join the dots. Dragging a teenager off to a prison camp for looking at boys is the tip of patriarchy, but the entire infrastructure of people who thought it was OK is also patriarchy.
- maybelsyrup 5y agoAh yes, of course. I completely missed the irony - my apologies. You're absolutely right.