"Let's try to "reset" the impression you keep saying that you have of me, that I'm trying to dismiss or minimize any impact of racism"
I just realised that I didn't address this point. This might be partly due to something you pointed out earlier which is that you're more likely to comment, certainly at length, when you disagree, but the …
"Let's try to "reset" the impression you keep saying that you have of me, that I'm trying to dismiss or minimize any impact of racism"
I just realised that I didn't address this point. This might be partly due to something you pointed out earlier which is that you're more likely to comment, certainly at length, when you disagree, but the impression I have is just based on the fact that almost all of our discussions (and the discussions I see you having with other readers) are based on you questioning some comment about the mistreatment of black people or the scale of the impact of racism in a particular situation. And never when I make a comment acknowledging that black culture or some other explanatory factor could be to blame for a particular racial disparity, for example.
People inclined to blame racism for *everything* (and I come across plenty of those), exhibit the opposite pattern.
I wouldn't say you're "trying" to minimise racism (if I phrased it that way earlier I was being imprecise), just that you seem to have a tendency to do so. It's a bias that may well be unconscious, or that might be a mirage I'm seeing based on the aforementioned fact that we're all more likely to comment when we disagree. I'm absolutely not saying this makes you a racist or anything even close. But it's hard not to notice it.
"Let's try to "reset" the impression you keep saying that you have of me, that I'm trying to dismiss or minimize any impact of racism"
I just realised that I didn't address this point. This might be partly due to something you pointed out earlier which is that you're more likely to comment, certainly at length, when you disagree, but the impression I have is just based on the fact that almost all of our discussions (and the discussions I see you having with other readers) are based on you questioning some comment about the mistreatment of black people or the scale of the impact of racism in a particular situation. And never when I make a comment acknowledging that black culture or some other explanatory factor could be to blame for a particular racial disparity, for example.
People inclined to blame racism for *everything* (and I come across plenty of those), exhibit the opposite pattern.
I wouldn't say you're "trying" to minimise racism (if I phrased it that way earlier I was being imprecise), just that you seem to have a tendency to do so. It's a bias that may well be unconscious, or that might be a mirage I'm seeing based on the aforementioned fact that we're all more likely to comment when we disagree. I'm absolutely not saying this makes you a racist or anything even close. But it's hard not to notice it.