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I think this is a fair explanation of the bias towards highlighting the negative, perhaps stated a bit divisively. But in essence, if people aren't kept focuse
by shadowgovt 4y ago
I think this is a fair explanation of the bias towards highlighting the negative, perhaps stated a bit divisively.
But in essence, if people aren't kept focused on what isn't right yet, it's easy for them to see the positive and assume the future is here and uniformly distributed, when only one of those things is the case.
- krapp 4y agoThis is the main reason "color blindness" and other aspects of progressivism are seen as unintentionally reinforcing the status quo of white supremacy. Ignoring (or pretending to ignore) race in a society in which systemic racism still exists actively works against efforts to recognize and fight those issues, often to the point of those efforts being considered "racist" in merely acknowledging the problem (although that accusation more often comes in bad faith from the right.) Color blindness may be an ideal goal for the future, but we're not there yet.
- kgwxd 4y agoIt only unintentionally reinforcing white supremacy in that calling out white supremacy causes white supremacists to double-down on their efforts which, when unchecked, causes a feedback loop. If anyone could get anything done to actually punish white supremacists, the world might be able to evolve past seeing color. BLM exists because white supremacists exist, not the other way around. Getting rid of one would get rid of the other, but not vice versa. As childish as it sounds, someone started it, that's who deserves the punishment.