Rex Kerr
2 min readJun 9, 2024

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Good analysis, and I agree, but there is such a dysfunctional relationship with race in the U.S. that a lot of left-wing Americans will claim exactly that all their troubles are caused by their race (alone), except that it has everything to do with the society...of...a different race. The farther-right right and the farther-left left have quite a convergence of conceptual frameworks even if they are diametrically opposed on which way to point the framework.

It's really quite baffling. Despite decades of experience showing attitudes improving but outcomes stagnating, and the strongest correlation with outcomes having to do with education and wealth, a huge portion of the left has abandoned the idea of trying to lean harder into systems that do more to level education and (meaningful) living conditions, and have decided that the problem is racism and that one race is to blame, and it can't be fixed without drastic action. Complete with lingo to excuse almost arbitrarily large race-based inequities: this is a microaggression and how dare you commit literal violence; but that is just white fragility.

Hey! Americans! If you turn the robe inside-out and it's a different color on the other side, it's not any better! You're still stereotyping, it's still bigoted, it still fails to treat people as individuals, it's still corrosive to a well-functioning society, it still makes everyone worse off overall, it still reduces diversity and inclusion (you have to do it not say it). It's just a different target. Just because you're not hitting your target as hard as the white supremacists try to doesn't mean it's good.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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