We cannot favor races in policy (like in slavery reparations - me) while discriminating against others, especially at the institutional level. It’s institutional racism
Slavery was also state discrimination against citizens on the basis of their race, as was segregation, apartheid, programs and genocides.
Except no one said that.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
They'll never come out and say what they actually believe, or believe what they are logically committed too, Maintaining ignorance of the implications of their beliefs is a necessary feature of internet reactionary praxis.
Don't feed the troll. — Chris Hughes
Don't feed the troll. — Chris Hughes
It quacks like a duck. If smells like alt-right white supremacism mischievously disguised as confused liberalism. — Chris Hughes
"Affirmative action is equivalent to slavery" - what kind of batshit mental contortions do you need to do to make this make sense. This is supposed to be taken seriously?
I don't think this one's a troll, unfortunately. I don't think they're alt-right either. It's very common conservative talking points; that they're hard to distinguish from chan culture bollocks is problematic, but it's not their fault this stuff propagates like it does. Conservatism's always been a slippery downward slope to fascism, all it takes is a push.
Do you believe a government should discriminate between its citizens on the basis of their race? — NOS4A2
Slavery was also state discrimination against citizens on the basis of their race, as was segregation, apartheid, programs and genocides. — NOS4A2
Yes, that was the point: to show that all (affirmative action, apartheid, slavery) are similar insofar as they are forms of institutional racism — NOS4A2
Probably the same kind of batshit mental contortions involved in pretending someone said such a thing. — NOS4A2
Slavery = apartheid = affirmative action, insofar as they are all racist. When I say this:
I wish that they were just trolls. Trolls are nihilistic, just doing what they can to get a rise. — fdrake
I'm a raging lefty. — fdrake
I just happen to believe that using racism to correct racism defeats that purpose at the start. I also believe that using racism at the institutional level is dangerous. — NOS4A2
If it came to it, we’d probably be in the same foxhole fighting the same enemies. — NOS4A2
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