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A lot of people have gotten into a weird place where they think that acknowledging that the descendants of slaves in the US are in a dire situation is a form of
by pessimizer 2y ago
A lot of people have gotten into a weird place where they think that acknowledging that the descendants of slaves in the US are in a dire situation is a form of racism. Acknowledging that being injured has caused an injury has become either extreme right-wing bigotry (if you're a liberal who demands that every subset of people be a racially representative mix), or "the soft bigotry of low expectations" (if you're a conservative who can't admit to yourself that you inherited hundreds of thousands of dollars from a parent who also paid for your private school, car, and rent, then found you your first job.)
- _heimdall 2y agoSure, there are a lot of interesting and compelling angles to consider why these kinds of things happen. In such a specific case as the parent comment here, it really is more interesting in my opinion to see what was found. For example, it stood out to the team that they group of people that were on the call paint a certain picture when considering how similar they were (specifically by surface-level factors like race or sex). Is that response justified when they dug in and found that the group didn't represent a similar makeup of the total population despite having completely ignore sex and race? Or did it turn out that the population is actually that homogenous? If it is that homogenous there are great questions to dig deeper on, like why that happened and what may be done to help correct that.