I'm not against having a conversations about racism. If you go and read my work on racism - it's linked in the reply to XX, you'll see I'm more than happy to talk about racism and I'm more than happy to debate the methodology for getting rid of it.
And I'm afraid there is. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-inequality-debate
Some highlights of this include....In 1965, a typical corporate CEO earned about twenty times that earned by a typical worker; by 2018, the ratio was 278:1.....
In 2021, the top 10 percent of Americans held nearly 70 percent of U.S. wealth, up from about 61 percent at the end of 1989
The fraction of Americans who earn more than their parents has shrunk from more than 90 percent of those born in the 1940s to 50 percent of those born in the 1980s.
As of 2020, only four of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are Black
Now I've included that last part because it's pretty important to my overall argument. Racism is a huge problem.... but it is not a universal problem. 80 years ago, there was ZERO chance a Black person could be CEO of a Fortune 500 company. It simply wouldn't happen. Now it CAN happen, and because it CAN happen, it DOES happen. Racism might make it difficult and you'd have to overcome a lot of white privilege to have a seat at that table.... but people are doing it and because they're doing it, the skin colour argument is weakened at source.
Although the odds are stacked against them, black people are taking up middle class positions in middle class industries and occasionally (as is the case with those 4 CEOs) joining the economically elite. As a result, we're seeing the rise of identiarian arguments as opposed to straight forward rights based arguments with socialism. You can make the case to a homeless guy that he has more privilege than Oprah Winfrey, but if you expect him to support a politician running on that ticket, you're going to be shit out of luck.
When you accuse large swathes of your own population of racism and take the discussion into the realms of subjective concepts of oppression, you can expect the poorest people to start voting for demagogues who talk about getting them out of poverty and making Mexico pay for it. Your demos moves right, your Conservatives become emboldened and your entire country swings away from the centre. So for every well meaning white liberal from the middle class who does likes on Instagram and says all the right things when required, you'll have 2 Trump voters who can't be brought back into the Democrat fold because they've fallen to an opposite ideology.
It's not about winning the argument because I don't want to talk about racism. It's about convincing people that this is the wrong way to combat racism. Outside of the liberal lefty bubble, they're making shit worse for minorities.
