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It’s true. I think me examining these things on an individual level leads to me seeing them as unjust. To my mind these “well-motivated policies”, wha...

My definition is “ In it’s purest form, racism is the belief that the species may be divided into separate biological taxonomies called “race”. His ch...

I’m not sure that’s the case.

Fair point. That’s another problem: the causes are so innumerable that disparities cannot be chalked up to just discrimination, privilege or systemic ...

In it’s purest form, racism is the belief that the species may be divided into separate biological taxonomies called “race”.

You’ll note my sentence didn’t end there. I said: “The first thing we should do is stop being racist, to stop using these outdated and tyrannical cate...

A marijuana candidate would do well. Though trump did legalize hemp to no particular fanfare.

A common argument against racial preferences and affirmative action, besides the unequal treatment, is that they do not help those they are designed t...

Another excuse to avoid his arguments I suspect.

The word “racial” is a descriptive term as well. It describes something, in this case particular government laws and policies. Simple grammar.

But they still continue. For how long should these policies continue? In a more recent case Judge OConnor and Thomas concludes affirmative action will...

Do you believe a government should enact racial policies?

I don’t doubt the term has gone through changes; I only doubt that the meaning is accurate.

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Race-ism. It’s quite simple. The suffix ‘ism’ is attached to the root word ‘race’.

Nice try. They go under different names elsewhere.

And next you’ll appeal to the dictionary.

We’re talking about race. At no point do I deny or ignore the legacy of racism.

Racial policies still exist but in the form of affirmative action.

I never said the belief in race equates to devaluing one because of her race. What I’m trying to say is that the belief that the species can be divide...

Where I live are racial disparities, yes, and a legacy of racism and racial policies.

I can agree with that. I just think the very first step to correcting them should be to refuse using those taxonomies. They automatically lead to the ...

That’s correct.

If you search for disparities between tall and short, fat and thin, you’ll find them. The point is you’re not tackling a problem at all, but projectin...

Then they should bring the Whitehouse to court, where it can be heard by a judge.

Mostly the way you frame them. If you view it through the lens of race, racial disparities necessarily arise. Of course it isn’t true that all members...

They do if the subpoenas are invalid and unconstitutional, which is what the whitehouse counsel is arguing.

It will likely be appealed.

No, they wrote a letter. No courts are involved.

Yes, the racial policies of the past has led to racial disparity. All the more reason to stop racist policies.

Judges decide the merits of any legal argument.

I would argue it is racist because it categorizes disparate and unconnected human beings into categories of race. This is evidence of a type of thinki...

It is not racist to get the government to treat all people equally under the law, to live up to its founding principles and apply them to all citizens...

Definitions of racism are a reflection of an abbreviated version of the current accepted usage of a term. It’s easy to appeal to the dictionary, but I...

I’ll accept your broad sense of socialism. But I don’t think there is much a distinction between owner and worker. It is more difficult and risky to s...

According to Whitehouse counsel the inquiry is constitutionally invalid, violates basic due process and the separation of powers. To them it Is a nake...

Well, I’m not big on consensus and uniformity. It would have to be very rare circumstances.

I don’t bother with throwing people into political camps. If it came to it, we’d probably be in the same foxhole fighting the same enemies.

Thanks for the advice. Institutionally racist, to be more precise. Perhaps I may be using it wrongly, but by institutionally racist I mean racial disc...

Probably the same kind of batshit mental contortions involved in pretending someone said such a thing. I’m a liberal.

In all of them, as a matter of principle.

I’ve never heard that definition of socialism. I’m a big fan of Rosa Luxenberg and Orwell, but they spoke in a time of revolutionary upheaval, so I fo...

Whether we should be colorblind or color conscious.

I kind of thought we’d all agree that racism was bad, and that we could discuss the proposed prescriptions.

Yes, that was the point: to show that all are similar insofar as they are forms of institutional racism. And I was speaking of affirmative action, not...

I’m quite fine. They clobber their straw men, making sure to make a show of it while doing so.

Except no one said that. All this talk of bad faith and this is the result?

Slavery was also state discrimination against citizens on the basis of their race, as was segregation, apartheid, programs and genocides.

Do you believe a government should discriminate between its citizens on the basis of their race?

The point about affirmative action is true. We cannot favor races in policy while discriminating against others, especially at the institutional level...