John and I often debate whether those who claim that systemic racism explains all disparities in American life are grifters or merely misguided. But one of our readers asks: Why not both? In this clip from a subscriber-only Q&A session, we take up the question.
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Coming to this discussion really late, but hey, in for a penny...
During what I refer to the as, The Great Covid Dumpster Fire™ there has been no shortage of gnashing of teeth and back-and-forth on the question of "evil" versus "inept" and so forth. This debate, albeit on a different subject--the machinations of race hucksters--is similar in that it attempts to place a group of people, or their motivations, into one category or the other. Are they bad academics or are they charlatans, taking advantage of "the low energy path"? At some point, all the errors cannot move in the same direction. Mistakes are random, not systematic. If all the folks who claim "systemic racism held me back" use the same rubrics, that means something. John seems to think they made mistakes. I tend to think people make choices, and those choices serve them, regardless of if we think (or hope) they are honestly mistaken or otherwise.
Doing things 'blackly' - hilarious!