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How do they react when you confront them with your own experience of parents never telling you to expect racism and thus never encountering it in any meaningful
by the_third_wave 3y ago
How do they react when you confront them with your own experience of parents never telling you to expect racism and thus never encountering it in any meaningful sense? This should not be possible according to the narrative unless you were living in that one special area where systemic racism did not exist, i.e. Utopia. Even more interesting is to know how they react when confronted with the fact that their narrative leads people to believe their fate to be preordained in that they will always be held back. The '...so why even try...' is tacked on through countless programs aiming for 'equity' - equality of outcome - where the state will provide for those who fail to do so by themselves. It is here where people make careers based on the narrative, here in this 'welfare-industrial complex' (to paraphrase Eisenhower) which grows as large as it is allowed to grow. The larger it grows, the more people have their livelihood staked on its existence either through employment or by being recipients of its handouts. This large group of people has an incentive to vote for those who promise to keep up the narrative which in turn ensures that even more young people are caught in its snares by being convinced they do not have any chance to succeed 'so why even try'. It is a vicious circle which needs to be stopped somehow, the narrative needs to be punctured and those caught by it need to be shown they can succeed without the need for government-enforced 'equity'.