I made a mistake. I honestly expected two leftist podcasters, who claim to be rationalists and to support science, to listen to my arguments against Critical Race Theory. I tried to do it privately over the patreon messaging system. This is how it went down:
Me: "Yeah, I know that really pissed off ("comedian" podcaster's name), which just goes to demonstrate my point. I get the same response from my Mormon step-father when I quote Brigham Young condemning to death any White person who "mixes their seed" with Black people. I'm going to change my screen name weekly to highlight different vile aspect of the wokeness cult. This week's is a gem. "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination". That comes directly from Mr. Kendi's book "How to be an Anti-Racist". My partner's work mailed the book to our house. I'm sympathetic to the struggles of Black people, so I sat down and read it. I was absolutely horrified."
Leftist Podcasters: "How offended someone gets when you say something isn't, in fact, a sign that what you're saying is true. Wokeness is not a cult, and yes, there are no colorblind ways to fix structural racism. That is an obviously correct point from Kendi."
Did you notice how he never refuted my actual argument, that Mr. Kendi is promoting the idea that discrimination against White People is the only remedy for past discrimination against Black People? Instead of dealing with my actual argument, he latched on to my "mormons getting upset" analogy. Fairly typical for someone who is disingenuous. As for his claim that there is no color-blind way to "fix structural racism", all I can say is the very idea of "structural racism" is part of the post-modernist, intersectional, cult of wokeness. It's a made up thing to give woke idiots political cover for being racist against White People. Continuing on...
Me: "Let me ask you a question. Is it wrong to let someone sit in jail because they cannot afford bail?"
Me: "The reason I ask is, the Northwest Community Bail Fund is "prioritizing marginalized people", and they explicitly ask for the "race or perceived race" of the person in jail. When pressed for an answer on what qualifies someone as "marginalized", they say that poverty alone is not sufficient. They won't come right out and say they're discriminating based on race, but that's the implication. I used to donate to them, a lot. When I found this out, I stopped my monthly contributions. This racist behavior is a direct result of critical race theory / wokeness. Discriminating against White people isn't going to help Black people. It will only serve to inflame racial tensions.
Me: "I grew up in a poor family, and I watched loved ones sit in jail because we were too poor to pay for their bail or a lawyer. I'm offended by the idea that my father, who was arrested and assaulted by the police while having a schizophrenic episode, would have been denied help by this organization because of his "perceived race".
Me: "I have nothing against Black people. When we lived in Atlanta, I scoured the court records looking for people who were left rotting in jail after their sentences had expired. I found dozens of them, all Black, and reported their cases to the Georgia ACLU, and I stood outside the DeKalb County Recorder's Court protesting the illegal detentions. When I was a kid, my friend Chrystal was slapped by a teacher and called the n-word in class. I walked out of class, marched to the principal's office, called my mom at work to tell her what was about to go down, and I barged into the principal's office and demanded the teacher be fired. I got suspended, but my mom said she was proud of me. When we lived in Rochester, MN, I worked for a company that had zero Black employees, and I overheard some of the customer service people complaining about the "colored UPS guy". When it came time to start up a marketing department, I made sure to find qualified some Black candidates and hired them as part of an integrated team. When my assistant left the company, I hired Janie, only to have the owner display his racism by telling me to "keep that n-word off the phones with my customers". When I was interviewing for jobs in Atlanta, I was interviewing for an accounting position at a firm that did a fair amount of business with Delta Airlines. During the interview, the owner of the company praised me for my Mormon heritage, and said he'd never hire an n-word in his administrative offices, and certainly not in accounting. I left that interview, declined the job offer, and called a friend who works at Delta to let her know the guy was a racist asshole. When all these videos started to surface showing Black people being brutalized and killed by police, I stood on an overpass here in Seattle with a big banner that says "Stop Killing Black People", and I began donating to the Northwest Community Bail Fund.
Me: "I'm not a bigot. I'm worried that the ideas of "critical race theory", will set race relations back by causing a backlash. Racial justice cannot contain discrimination. If it does, it is just another side of the same racist coin.
Me: "Either way, I still respect both of you, even though I disagree with the extremes of the wokeness movement. Hopefully something good will come of it.
Leftist Podcasters: "Thanks for the respect & support even if we disagree. We need more of that these days :)"
After that lip-service to "respect & support", one of the hosts said on-air something to the effect of "why doesn't that guy just take his donation and leave". I changed my patreon screen name to "Read Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose", and the same host said "don't do that, it's a horrible book".
So, I've decided to switch my patreon support away from these leftist nutbags, and shift half of it to Coleman Hughes, and give the rest to Hopelink (the local food bank and homeless services charity).
If anyone has any podcasts about the law that aren't run by blind leftist tw@ts, please let me know.
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