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How does everyone spin what happened today?
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Its two fold to me:
#1: Stop calling everyone a racist (not saying you do this or any of us on here do this, but that’s the trend). It’s not okay that the word ‘racist’ is now thrown around haphazardly and everyone who disagrees with a mainstream opinion is labeled a racist. That alone distracts from real racists and hateful people.
#2: The obsession with cancel culture and going after people who did things 20+ years ago has to stop. That does nothing to set policies and procedures to move the country forward. In our own personal lives, we do not obsess about things we did in the past because it does nothing to help with your present day or future. The same needs to happen for our country. Canceling Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, or Gone with Wind does absolutely nothing to ‘help equality’.
This 2 items may seem silly, but I think these actually deter a lot from the movement of equality. When you call someone a racist, you ‘shut’ them down and make them not interested anymore (it’s a hurtful word that should be used only when it’s accurate representation) and when you focus on silly canceling of material goods you’re really just virtue signaling.
No one is actually focused on driving any sort of policy or procedure changes. Instead it has just become one big pissing match.
I’m curious how you guys think about the term “racist”. I’ve got liberal circles and conservative circles and I feel like the term almost means two different things depending on who I’m talking to. My liberal friends will call a lot of everyday things out as racist. Whereas bringing up the idea of racism will shut down most conversations in my conservative group. I was listening to a linguist discuss how the meaning of words changes over time and he mentioned that the word “racist” has started shifting from the 1950/60s view of racist which is similar to a “bigot” to more like “prejudiced”.
I personally see that as a huge difference. Like a bigot to me is a tiki torch carrying white nationalist, while someone who’s prejudiced might think Asians are better at math. In my view there are very few bigots in the world but quite a bit of prejudice. Doesn’t seem like a great idea to use “racist” to describe both.
Thank you for your thoughtful response.
While I do have my disagreements with what your perspectives in #2 I see no reason to rehash them here when it's already being done elsewhere, I do agree equality requires changing the future.
I have found the following actions as a helpful guide and the smart people are focused on these outcomes:
Details at 8cantwait.org . I guess the frustration the left has with Republicans is that there is no impetus for police reform from them - when what needs to be done is pretty agreeable. I wish laws to this effect were passed already. I think when the left sees obstacles to such common sense reforms is when the unfortunate name calling starts (I disagree with them doing so, but share the frustration).