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> I'd at least like to know what is the end game here. Have those groups effectively given up any hope of changing the country and mainstream society at large,
by komali2 7mo ago
> I'd at least like to know what is the end game here. Have those groups effectively given up any hope of changing the country and mainstream society at large, so the new strategy is now retreating into gated communities
I noticed this occasional tendency in the west to analyze an action or behavior by hypothetically scaling it to way beyond the scope of the actual action or behavior, and I've been wondering if this is some kind of judicial application of Kantian thinking?
I'd push back on that and say, not everything has to be scaled. Not every behavior is an indictment of other behavior. People doing things isn't necessarily an argument that all people should do those same things. Nor is it an indication that those people only want to do those things that way - just because some black people want a reprieve from whatever their perception of day to day western life is, doesn't mean they've "given up" on making any changes to that society.
- xg15 7mo agoIt's part of a trend though. The tendency of "safe spaces" is several decades old by now. You can still ask why someone would think that this is a good or necessary thing to do.
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- brendoelfrendo 7mo agoIs not the onus on the rest of society to examine why black people (or any marginalized group) would not feel safe without their own safe spaces?
- alienthrowaway 7mo agoIt's facetious when people question why BlackSky need to exist 40+ years after the "14 words" and in the age where White Christian Nationalism is completely mask-off. HN often tolerates dog whistles about how school kids bussed from "the had part of town" are a net-negative, but BlackSky is suddenly the bad type of segregation? GTFOH.
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