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Jaicee said:

Look I know that I'm coming off as a tasteless bitch here (or more of one than I really am anyway). I think it may be helpful to clarify that I'm a supporter of policies ranging from the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and the For the People Act that my party has passed through the House of Representatives to formal reparations (by which I mean cash payments) for slavery and other oppressions and disadvantages that black people have suffered in this country. I DO believe in racial justice! Let's be clear about that. I am not a conservative.

These things said though, those who've followed my posts will know by now that I've never been a big fan of the mindset behind critical race theory. I'm boring. I believe in color-blindness. I try to treat everyone the same. If that's not enough then, well, sorry. And I've also lost a lot of faith in some of the more shall we say pronounced demands we've seen emerge prominently from the 'anti-racist' movement of late, like proposals to de-fund local police departments. Those sorts of policies have, in fact, been enacted in many U.S. cities since the murder of George Floyd just over a year ago now and the main consequence has been a sustained uptick in violent crime, not the emergence of more social peace. I'm far from alone in these sentiments too, I might add. Violent crime is now the leading issue of public concern in this country and the share of the population describing race relations as a "very big problem" has dropped from 54% a year ago to 41% today. I don't feel that I'm particularly out of touch here. It's in senses like these that I find political correctness dangerous. It can cost people their lives. To that end, I think it deserves to be mocked.

No need to apologize. Most people agree with you I think. Its just the loud ones who doesnt that get all the publicity.