Many of us have a friend or a relative who is a wonderful person with a heart of gold but who’s obsessed with some tinfoil hat conspiracy theory or has a weird, embarrassing hobby. For instance, I know somebody who’s the sweetest, loveliest human you can imagine but is obsessively into urotherapy. Yes, it’s the thing where people drink their own pee because it’s supposed to be very healthy.
The worst thing about such people is that they always seek to convert others to their faith and get very monomaniacal about it. Anything can set them off, and you have to be very careful around them to avoid provoking them into a rant on how you’ll die a terrible death if you don’t immediately go drink yourself some urine.
Americans are like that about race. They are the most wonderful, kind people ever. But race is their tinfoil urotherapy. Once something sets them off on this favorite subject, there’s no helping it. They can’t be reasonable about it and they can’t resist the urge to convert the world to their faith. It’s best to accept that they are not ready to stop drinking their own urine for now and just leave them to it. There’s no other solution.
But they are great, beautiful people aside from this unfortunate fixation.
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This saga seems to have come to an unexciting but relatively satisfactory end. It’s clear to me the professor never even understood what the objection to her actions even was, which is kind of sad.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/2023/06/29/tiktok-professor-reprimanded-by-university-transgender-controversy/70361134007/
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Here’s an open link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox19.com/2023/06/30/ucs-tik-tok-prof-reprimanded-directed-free-speech-training/%3foutputType=amp
There’s definitely some positive movement in the right direction here. I see reason to be cautiously optimistic.
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This may be my own bias, but I also would like to think my city’s university is a cut above the rest when it comes to this stuff
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The race issue seemed to be fading away among regular people prior to 2012 when the occupy Wall Street movement was picking up steam. I think over 80% of people thought race relations were pretty
Good based on surveys.
Dramatizing race was a great way to divide people who had started to unite around economic issues
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“Dramatizing race was a great way to divide people who had started to unite around economic issues”
Well put.
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Exactly. It’s so convenient and so simple. I told my colleagues when the administration started pushing the “anti-racist” propaganda that enormous budget cuts were coming. They didn’t see the connection.
They still don’t see the connection even after my prediction almost immediately came true.
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In your opinion, does the American obsession with race boil down to one simple constant, or is it an involuted, ever-changing thing?
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From what I’ve seen, white people are extremely uncomfortable around black people and are trying to hide that discomfort in inventive, bizarre ways.
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I’d say more the political Left have an obsession with race, not the political Right or the political center.
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