yeah, equality of opportunity

Yes

The amount of melanin the skin means nothing to me. Racial and identarian politics are totally nonsensical

Agreed, but they were oppressed for their skin tone for so long

I guess it really matters to them

Yeah but its so utterly pointless to dwell on, if people focused less on things like fucking "reparations" and more on what civil rights was actually about, they'd get so much more accomplished

because one is a noble and justified cause and the other is just absurdity

@Soup Can Sam sometimes you think you know a guy

Huh I guess I'm not as much of an esp as I thought

racial guilt is bad

i never owned a slave

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so im not responsible

Focus on fixing poverty regardless of race, focus on fixing real social issues, focusing on educating against discrimination, focus on dealing with legitimate hatred

What's fixing hatred

Or dealing with it

Daryl Davis is a good example of that lmao

That fat blac guy?

Idk I don't know what he does

He's a musician that befriended the imperial wizard of the ku klux klan and over time made him essentially dissolve the Klan simply by engaging with, and showing him that Black people aren't genetically inferior

Open dialogues are the single most important things to solving this issue

OH HIM

I KNOW HIM

he did a ted talk didnt he

I don't think that works on most people

He did a ted talk and a lot of podcasts

It works a hell of a lot better than ignoring them and preaching to choirs

And not because people are ignorant or anything but because it's not actually persuasive

Racial supremacy is an idea just like anything else and the best way to counter ideas is to argue against them

If I care about my mom you cannot give me a single argument to change me, but you can point out things she may have done to wrong me and perhaps change my opinion

Its the perfect time to point out the literal absurdity of race based politics

What does absurd mean

Ridiculous, not based in legitimate information or theory

The idea of race having a significant impact on anything other than minor physiology and skin melanin is factually false

Agreed

You were born with whatever skin tone you have, and it shouldn't be something to hold someone accountable on

My ancestors might have been slave owners

My ancestors may have been slaves themselves

I'm particularly Irish

So..

But we never talk about that