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everyone who benefits from the current state of things, except certain far right republicans and white nationalist types, and people who cant stop making racist jokes - would often prefer EVERY ISSUE to turn into a racial issue. because its so easy to reduce our sins and problems to one single thing - racism.
seriously, a guy can be racist or say racist jokes and still be a fine guy in other respects. there are certain people on the left now making racism into something worse than witchcraft or sin or satanism or whatever. they are, IMO, DELIBERATELY turning racism into the equivalent of the most extreme almost cartoonish version of the original prejudice whites had against blacks. like its almost as if they, only half sub consciously, want to turn racism into a branding iron that can be applied to almost anyone, thus stripping them of their job/future career/life. its as if they enjoy feeling so guilty about what our predecessors did to blacks, they want to now take that same vicious vile hatred out on US in a kind of self directed masochism. like they are secretly in love with that kind of power and hate. i KNOW what we, as in our predecessors did, was fucking evil, but the answer is not MORE punishment.
you know what i think is going on here? in some cases (not all obviously) this is functioning as a kind of hysterical game.
i think that one of the reasons anti racism is so successful is that it functions as a CODE that allows us to replace the difficulty of morality with dogma. its very easy for a commercial society to preach anti racism.
for certain white people, being NOT racist in the right way is a way to signal status (im not a poor white im a high cultured white).
lets be honest - its also about putting blacks in their place - which is slightly lower than us because they need our condescension and tolerance to even exist. they are always BLACK people before they are just people. whereas we white people are just people. again - this is only in certain cases and im not saying this crap in anyway removes the need for anti racist struggles.
i just cant be totally comfortable being inherently on the side of all white anti racists anymore, since even though they are on the right side, they ARE now using this stuff to stifle freedom of speech. even if its the freedom of speech for stupid douchebags talking shit most of the time.
what happened to the idea that you respected your enemies folly because you knew your way was more noble, and you were asking for freedom of speech for EVERYONE? i think we GOT inclusivity (at least culturally) and now we are stalled with it, because if we took it further in the right direction it would lead back to economics. and thats too difficult for us to face.
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