do you guys realize how broken the discussion you are trying to have is? "You vote for democrats who are doing this" "The republicans are trying to do this!"
do people ever actually engage with any of the actual IDEAS that you are talking about? you both are seriously just one or two steps removed from clubbing each other over the heads and grunting at each other.
"The democrats are doing this!!" vs "Far right Alex Jones bullsh*t this!!" it is such a systemic failure of education and dialogue. I tend to believe that if people got together at a tailgate, it might go a bit better, but I'm not sure how much better.
This is not the way the founding fathers were hoping we would be addressing these issues when they started the country. Not just for the community here, but for your own personal sanity, try to do better.
Here's my homework assignment:
guidelinesa2: please read either/or Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva or Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum. Both are 1000x better than Kendi or DiAngelo and while I can't say I agree with everything they write, they do a fantastic job of painting a very fair case for the "religion" of anti-racism.
On a somewhat personal note, this would be my critique of McWhorter's new book. Kendi and DiAngelo are low-hanging fruit, and sure they are popular now, but there are much better books written about this stuff that aren't pushed by publishing houses and the NYT. Responding to Kendi or DiAngelo is like debating a puppy to me. It's intellectually unfair. I still understand why McWhorter wrote the book, but he'd have been better off addressing Charles Mills than these clowns.
BNI Boiler: read something you will definitely disagree with, like Dinesh D'Souza's like Death of a Nation or Thomas Sowell's Conquests And Cultures: An International History.
I am not naive enough to think that both of you immediately went to look for critiques of what I just suggested you read, while putting the opposing's suggestions on your reading list. And therein lies the problem we currently face in this country. Is that so many people are so hell-bent on proving the other wrong, that very few individuals want to stop and actually try to educate themselves by listening, reading across vast topics, and trying to understand where the other is coming from.
The issue isn't "systemic" (at least in the very broad sense), and it isn't political. The issue here is failure at the individual level. What are you willing to study and learn about? We live in a country of 350 million people from all over the world - willing to read a book or two with an open-mind that might not have been your first choice? If the answer is no, then therein lies the issues with modern America today.
These issues obviously aren't constrained to the USA, but as the USA has done throughout the past 250 years, the USA is leading the international pack in this stuff...and it's coming to a country near you if it hasn't already.