We Hit Peak 2019

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(12-12-2019, 11:32 PM)fredtoast Wrote: He admitted rolling through the light after it turned red just like I did.  Yet he blamed the ticket on a racist cop instead of on himself breaking the law.

If you really cared about "context" then you would consider the context of Corey Booker being a Stanford Grad and US Senator  If Bloomberg called a random black guy he had never met before "well spoken" then you could argue that Bloomberg was making the comments because of racism, but it is absurd to claim Bloomberg was surprised that a Stanford grad and US Senator was "well spoken" because he was black.  But when you have no facts to back it up you blame it on "subconscious" racism.

You only want to talk about context when it supports your claims of racism, but ignore it when it does not.  That is exactly what I am talking about when I talk about blaming everything on racism.  All it does it create more dissention between the races.  There is now a large portion of the black community who have painted Bloombrg as a racist with no justification other than complimenting a black man.

I am not ignoring the context of Bloomberg's statement. At all. You are.

The historical context is that "well spoken" and "articulate" are terms that are attributed to black people, often by white people, when the white person has decided "this black person speaks like me. I appreciate that. They normally don't." It has been used this way for decades.

I am not saying that Bloomberg thinks that. But it's the context of these types of statements. And it will often "trigger" (I hate the word because it implies the response is not justified, but it fits best here just for clarification) black people because many of them have had the same thing said to them. It's a micro-aggression.

Also, are you implying subconscious racism or microaggressions are a myth with your quotation marks?