Also, what's the deal with the tone of the economist article? In the past I found them terse, detached and aloof, a little bit arrogant. This has the nyt/atlantic feel of someone who fancies themselves an undiscovered future award winner trying to write about the human side and choosing feelings over facts and analysis.<p><pre><code> Derek chauvin was born three years after George Floyd, and grew up in Cottage Grove, a suburb of the Twin Cities 20 miles from the corner where one man killed the other
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I understand that some journalists write like this, but I'm surprised to see that stile in the economist
If I were dog, I would be a mutt.<p>But due to being human, I just call myself an Earthling. This despite my heritage being from multiple cultures (8?) from around the world, some of them very long lived within their family trees. If you were to do a full deep dive on my lineage, you would find that my bloodline goes back not just decades, or even centuries, but millenniums. Technically, so too does everyone else who is alive today, for we all came from some line of apes that evolved or another. And that's ignoring all the stuff about Neanderthals and such.<p>To me, it doesn't matter who you are, what you look like, or where you came from. What you believe is another matter, since there are wrong opinions about many things abound, but I tend to leave that alone; because arguing with idiots is a good way to lose to them when idiocy outnumbers intelligence since the days of the stone age. (With some exceptions thanks to the coincidental silver lining of plagues.)<p>To me, people who focus solely on race in any fashion, need to stop. Not only is it not rational, but it's divisive. Which is why politicians love using it in some form or another, when we start to get along again; and most intelligent people know that politicians are less trustworthy than some random person on the internet.<p>Yet we keep falling for their bullshit. Why?<p>Because we deeply want to belong to something more than just ourselves, I think. And when that thing we belong to is supposedly threatened by another group inside or out of our own group, we fight them.<p>Doesn't matter which group, it's the same for all.<p>Now excuse me while I go back to trying to get things put together in my own life so I can make a place for people who think like me where we can escape the rest who obsess about race, colour or creed.<p>You're all welcome to join me, though it may take some of you time to de-escalate your emotions over these sorts of things.
This is an example of the celebration parallax:<p>It's a neo-Nazi White supremacist myth that the White population is declining! It's not happening but I'm glad that it is!<p>No way this doesn't get [flagged] by the end of the night.
Being white and not self-loathing is practically a hate-crime these days. If you happen to be male and heterosexual too, you're worse than Hitler and should begin self-flagellation immediately.<p>Personally I find it offensive to be continually lectured on what a rich, over-priveleged piece of shit I am, just because I was born white. By people with more wealth and privilege than anyone in my working class family has ever enjoyed.<p>Political correctness, and its never-ending hammering on an already open door, has actually made me more racist of late, where I wasn't at all before.