Let's just avoid this racially collectivist bullshit altogether. It's racist when whites do it, and it's racist when blacks do it. We aren't marxists.
Unfortunately, it's a survival strategy, so its adoption is going to increase, not decrease, as long as there's a perceived threat.
Just as corruption in politics creates alliances of convenience between the corrupt (while honest men and women are isolated), the politics of race is a path to power, and ignoring it when others are engaging in it endangers us.
It would be very healthy for our collective conscience to put the guns down and walk away from this sick Mexican Standoff, but we've spent most of our time in the circle getting shot at and not shooting back. Unilaterally opting out doesn't mean we get to walk away; it only means we leave our revolvers in their holsters, and that's not any more healthy for our collective physique than participating is for our national conscience.
Unfortunately, it's a survival strategy, so its adoption is going to increase, not decrease, as long as there's a perceived threat.
It's not a survival strategy. It's power-gaining strategy that creates an other and establishes them as a perceived threat. The perception never ends, because if it did, racialism would stop being a viable means to power.
Best of all, it ends with everyone being worse off, including the population that's supposed to benefit from the racism.
The classic game theory example of the prisoner's dilemma works well enough as an example. We've been through thousands upon thousands of iterations of the same game, and every time, both prisoners expect the other to betray them, because that is how it always happens.
The first to choose cooperation instead of betrayal will be destroyed, unless they make the leap together.
Asking someone to make the leap on the first iteration is a tough sell. Asking them to make it on the millionth, when generation after generation preceding chose betrayal, is nearly impossible.
Unfortunately, it's a survival strategy, so its adoption is going to increase, not decrease, as long as there's a perceived threat.
Just as corruption in politics creates alliances of convenience between the corrupt (while honest men and women are isolated), the politics of race is a path to power, and ignoring it when others are engaging in it endangers us.
It would be very healthy for our collective conscience to put the guns down and walk away from this sick Mexican Standoff, but we've spent most of our time in the circle getting shot at and not shooting back. Unilaterally opting out doesn't mean we get to walk away; it only means we leave our revolvers in their holsters, and that's not any more healthy for our collective physique than participating is for our national conscience.
It's not a survival strategy. It's power-gaining strategy that creates an other and establishes them as a perceived threat. The perception never ends, because if it did, racialism would stop being a viable means to power.
Best of all, it ends with everyone being worse off, including the population that's supposed to benefit from the racism.
The classic game theory example of the prisoner's dilemma works well enough as an example. We've been through thousands upon thousands of iterations of the same game, and every time, both prisoners expect the other to betray them, because that is how it always happens.
The first to choose cooperation instead of betrayal will be destroyed, unless they make the leap together.
Asking someone to make the leap on the first iteration is a tough sell. Asking them to make it on the millionth, when generation after generation preceding chose betrayal, is nearly impossible.