HappySqurriel said: In my opinion, while the political left consistently enacts (or protects) legislation which makes the lives of marginalized individuals in visible minority groups worse the primary driving factor to this isn’t racism; it is the unfortunate side-effect of prioritizing good-intentions over outcomes. At the same time, the political right is constantly called racist because they are unwilling to abandon reason to endorse these well-intentioned poorly reasoned laws.
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As it is constructed today, and isn't necessarily what was historically, is that you have the liberal side attemption to affect change collectively, for the said rights of individuals, based on certain collective attributes they have. They attempt to systemically address this, so that individuals get what they want. On the conservative side, they will end up privatizing everything, so that individuals moving in self interest, can advance their own causes and get what they want, even when doing this would cause groups with individuals with common attributes to suffer. In both cases is the glorification of the individual.
What you have in the above video is a case of a hail mary pass, in hopes that that current realities get ignored. This reality is that there has been a shift with the GOP as it is CURRENTLY is the basic home of white individuals who fear and are opposed to those who are different. The GOP, for minorities, means "Jews" for the most part, eventhough you get token minorities in there. These tokens operate under a delusional belief that they are immune to systemic and social values that cause people to be discriminated against. Such individuals end up thinking, by gumption, they are just plain superior and thus don't need to worry about such things.
This is the current reality of things. In the past, the Democratic Party was the home of racists. But now, it isn't as a rule.