Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 19 2021 12:30am)
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That's a hell of a way to describe slavery, Jim Crow, red lining, voter suppression, and so many other things. In case you missed it, John is the actively racist individuals putting these laws in place and John's team is the rest of the people benefiting from it.
In your analogy somehow the current treatment of whites is worse than all those things.
John was alive for neither Slavery nor Jim Crow. You are assigning blame based on race, which makes you a racist. We are going to eliminate racism, and we're going to look back on this as a sad, pathetic turn in the history of this country.
To some extent, though, this has never been about collective guilt. Asians were clearly persecuted. Laws were passed, informal and formal barriers set-up. And yet now they too find themselves under the cross-hairs as anti-racists target them for their success. Not because of some imagined racial crime, but because they are the temporary winners of a meritocratic system, and meritocracy itself is under attack.
This is a socio-economic question, not a racial one. Educated parents lead to educated offspring. Stable families beget stable families. There is nothing more valuable than having educated, involved people in your life. They are the building blocks of your success. What we must do is try to remove the impediments, social, economic, or otherwise, that prevent the poor from realizing that success. Unfortunately, a few misguided souls have identified those building blocks as the problem. They're luddites, plain and simple, and we need only ignore them.
This post was edited by bogie160 on Feb 19 2021 12:48am