You’re going to sit there and say the Civil Rights Acts were ineffective and pointless? It sounds to me like the biggest advocate against racial equality here is you.
I think their argument was not that the Civil Rights Act and similar legislation have done nothing, but that they haven’t done enough yet, and that people who like to pretend that “because we have passed certain of these laws, the work is done and everything is equal now, our best option is to pretend racism is all gone and just let every compete fairly in the all-better world” are either dreaming or lying.
It didn’t feel like they were praising the progress we’ve achieved so far and advocating for further progress in the same vein. It feels like they’re siding with Balderdash that the one and only solution is violently destroying the system as it currently exists, which to me feels like it would create more bad outcomes and destroy the balance between western democracies and eastern autocracies.
You’re going to sit there and say the Civil Rights Acts were ineffective and pointless? It sounds to me like the biggest advocate against racial equality here is you.
I think their argument was not that the Civil Rights Act and similar legislation have done nothing, but that they haven’t done enough yet, and that people who like to pretend that “because we have passed certain of these laws, the work is done and everything is equal now, our best option is to pretend racism is all gone and just let every compete fairly in the all-better world” are either dreaming or lying.
It didn’t feel like they were praising the progress we’ve achieved so far and advocating for further progress in the same vein. It feels like they’re siding with Balderdash that the one and only solution is violently destroying the system as it currently exists, which to me feels like it would create more bad outcomes and destroy the balance between western democracies and eastern autocracies.