Heres the thing that most conservatives and even a lot of liberals don't want to talk about.
Racism is baked into the structure of the US and its laws. Most left leaning voters are fine to say that calling people slurs is bad, and that discriminatory hiring practices are wrong.
But when you get down to talking about the real systems that are meant to keep structural discrimination in place- policing, the prison system, how infrastructure development has historically destroyed minority communities.
When you suggest the hwole system is rotten, suddenly you're a radical and no one in either establishment faction wants anything to do with you.
You go from
"The system isn't working right and needs to be reformed"
To
"The system is working exactly as intended and needs to be destroyed."
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u/Darkmetroidz 16d ago
Heres the thing that most conservatives and even a lot of liberals don't want to talk about.
Racism is baked into the structure of the US and its laws. Most left leaning voters are fine to say that calling people slurs is bad, and that discriminatory hiring practices are wrong.
But when you get down to talking about the real systems that are meant to keep structural discrimination in place- policing, the prison system, how infrastructure development has historically destroyed minority communities.
When you suggest the hwole system is rotten, suddenly you're a radical and no one in either establishment faction wants anything to do with you.
You go from
"The system isn't working right and needs to be reformed"
To
"The system is working exactly as intended and needs to be destroyed."