The quibbling with color blindness is interesting. It becomes clear then that we just don't want to be like Amy Wax. Therefore we need to hold on to something, however undefined, that shows we're not suggesting there's no racism problem at all. It's always interesting when people can't follow through on their own insights. The real problem is that Coleman Hughes and John Roberts are simply right, not just because of the way the Constitution was written, and what the fourteen amendment implies for everyone, but mainly because we have de facto had half a century of reverse systemic racism now and it needs to stop. This is just difficult for people to realize because the delusion of institutional racism persists indefinitely, against all quotidian experience and empirical evidence. Only idiots accept the presence of outcome disparities as direct evidence for discrimination, but this is what the entire nation has been hiding behind. John would do well to just be done with it entirely. It doesn't mean he'd turn into a compassionless dirtbag on every human concern, like Clarence Thomas. It would just be an internally consistent position. It would say: Yes, we are judging you by the content of your character when we lock you up at multiple times the rate of other racial groups (Black on Asian versus Asian on Black crime is 50:1), and we're doing it while more black women get a college degree than white men do, thanks to either the reverse discrimination or because black women are smarter and more industrious than white men, which is something we could try to study. It shouldn't be that difficult for an independent mind to grasp, I feel.
The quibbling with color blindness is interesting. It becomes clear then that we just don't want to be like Amy Wax. Therefore we need to hold on to something, however undefined, that shows we're not suggesting there's no racism problem at all. It's always interesting when people can't follow through on their own insights. The real problem is that Coleman Hughes and John Roberts are simply right, not just because of the way the Constitution was written, and what the fourteen amendment implies for everyone, but mainly because we have de facto had half a century of reverse systemic racism now and it needs to stop. This is just difficult for people to realize because the delusion of institutional racism persists indefinitely, against all quotidian experience and empirical evidence. Only idiots accept the presence of outcome disparities as direct evidence for discrimination, but this is what the entire nation has been hiding behind. John would do well to just be done with it entirely. It doesn't mean he'd turn into a compassionless dirtbag on every human concern, like Clarence Thomas. It would just be an internally consistent position. It would say: Yes, we are judging you by the content of your character when we lock you up at multiple times the rate of other racial groups (Black on Asian versus Asian on Black crime is 50:1), and we're doing it while more black women get a college degree than white men do, thanks to either the reverse discrimination or because black women are smarter and more industrious than white men, which is something we could try to study. It shouldn't be that difficult for an independent mind to grasp, I feel.