hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:41 pm
So your solution is to never bring up racism and look the other way when we see it because to call it out might embolden Republicans?
No. I feel like your internalizing the very things you seem to hate about MAGA. I implore you to go back and read what you wrote and try to pretend you didn't just write it. Read it as if it was written by someone here who espouses MAGA talking points and see if you don't cringe a little.
Uh, no, I wasn't making any comments about Racism other than abandoning the ideal of a Colorblind Society is a huge mistake that is going to weaken support for social justice measures regarding racial minorities. I do feel that the Left has gone overboard on trying to tie every societal ill to racism and I think it is backfiring. I actually think we are driving minorities away from the Party primarily due to overreaching on social justice policies, believe it or not. This editorial speaks to this a bit if you're interested:
"And while a cartoon version of colorblindness isn’t desirable or even possible, it is possible to recognize skin color but not form judgments on that basis. A person can worry that an emphasis on racial group identity can misleadingly homogenize diverse groups of people, at once underestimating intraracial differences and overemphasizing interracial ones. The Black left-wing scholar Adolph Reed, for example, decried the emphasis on race-based policies. “An obsession with disparities of race has colonized the thinking of left and liberal types,” Reed said in an interview with The New York Times. “There’s this insistence that race and racism are fundamental determinants of all Black people’s existence.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opinion/ibra ... acism.html
Anyway, I think everyone knows the point I'm making and has stated their opposition to it but I would honestly like to hear someone else's idea on how to resolve this crisis other than doing nothing which I believe will only make things worse. So, before I get dragged farther into the weeds and called a Conservative, a MAGA sympathizer or something worse, I'm going to move on. But thanks to those like Hepcat who engaged my points directly as opposed to those who just tried to dismiss my opinions out of hand since, after all, I dared to disagree with the forum consensus on something.