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is not the best way of combating the effects of racism, which does exist.

The issue here I must repeat is not whether or not racism exists we know it does read the paper this morning had some racism of my own two weeks ago that's not the issue the issue is whether modern anti racism is the best way of combating the effects of that racism and it isn't.

is, as currently configured, is a religion.

anti racism as currently configured has gone a long way from what used to be considered intelligent and sincere civil rights activism today it's a religion and I don't mean that as a rhetorical feint I mean that it actually is what any naive anthropologist would recognize as a faith in people many of whom don't think of themselves as religious but Galileo would recognize them

is, as it is configured today, problematic because it asks us to focus on rogue cops instead of on those homicides every summer in big cities across America killing teenage black boys.

But you're not supposed to think about it. You're not supposed to think about all of those homicides every summer in big cities across America teenage black boys are killing one another in the hundreds over frankly nothing that's somehow less important than what the occasional rogue cop does. that's modern anti racism for you that's backwards.

is problematic because it holds us back from helping black people who need help because we're taught to think of certain things rather than other, of white people's inner psychology and an inner quest for moral absolution instead of black homicide, and black upward mobility.

Antiracism turns a blind eye to most black homicide anti racism as currently configured turns a blind eye to black young people's upward mobility it turns a blind eye to doing the kinds of things that civil rights leaders of years ago considered ordinary in favor of what is ultimately inwardly focused quest for moral absolution that has at best a diagonal relationship to helping people who've been left behind

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