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Originally Posted by rubecube
I do think it's primarily an issue of white supremacy, yes. There are a number of contributing factors but at its historical and institutionalized core, it's white supremacy. I don't agree that anyone who disagrees is a racist piece of crap, but are likely incredibly ignorant. I'm open to the possibility that they're not, but I've yet to see an argument which doesn't implicate racism and white supremacy that doesn't also contain heaping amounts of ignorance and white privilege.
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Okay, well I might disagree with you that it's
primarily an issue of white supremacy - or at least I'm not totally
convinced that that's the predominant factor at play.
The fact that your response to my lack of certainty on the point is to say anyone who disagrees with you is "incredibly ignorant" is pretty much a solid demonstration of the problem. I mean, it's slightly better than saying that anyone who disagrees with you is a racist, as many other pro-BLM people might, but it's not that much better. Why would someone want to have a conversation with you about race if that's your starting point? Sounds like an exercise in being condescended to until they accede to your perspective, and not much fun. For that matter, why would you want to have a conversation with someone who you've decided,
ab initio, is "incredibly ignorant"? Sounds like an exercise in pulling your hair out, and also not much fun.
The answer of course is that they wouldn't do that, and you wouldn't either. Now you're just stuck talking to people who already agree with you (or people who take an even more extreme view), which will simply lead to your own views becoming more and more extreme owing to
group polarization. Which - to get back on topic - is very "Tea Party" in my view, and one of the major causes of the situation the United States finds itself in politically.