We Hit Peak 2019

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(12-13-2019, 01:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: "Well spoken" and "articulate" are also compliments used by all races to describe people of all races.  You can't just change the entire meaning of words because some people use them is a racist manner.  And I am saying that Blomberg had zero racist intentions in mind when he used that comment about Booker.  But now a large part of the black community has painted Bloomberg as a racists with no evidence at all.

Claiming every white person is racist because of a history of racism is no different from claiming every black person is a violent criminal based on the history of the violent criminal being so much higher among African Americans.  You have to stop doing that.  It is just wrong, and it creates more dissention between the races.  It is possible for a white person to call a black person "well spoken" and not mean "well spoken for a black person".  If that triggers black people then they just need to get over it.  Look at the facts before jumping to conclusions.  If Bloomberg had made this comment about a black person he just met then you may have some cause to be triggered, but it is just ridiculous when he is talking about a US Senator who graduated from Sanford.  Your claim that is was "subconscious" is just something you made up in your head with no facts to back it up.

Your posts have done a great job illustrating the problem. In addition to throwing around tired stereotypes and generalization, you're out right promoting a straw-man and refusing to broaden your perspective beyond what you're entrenched in.

The reality is "well spoken" and "articulate" are often times used exclusively for black people by white people in situations where it would be a given that the individual can speak clearly. There is no actual outcry claiming intentional racism on Bloomberg's part or when Obama was called "the first articulate... African American candidate" by Biden. The dialogue has been on how the language has been used in the past and the unintentional meaning behind it and then how we can learn from it and be better.

One of the worst responses to addressing implicit bias is to suggest that addressing it causes more problems. It doesn't. That's just a intellectually lazy response. Refusing to learn isn't admirable. I've recommended that people read any of the links I posted, but particularly the Times article. It's clear no one has, and it seems like the reason why is that people do not care about educating themselves on this issue. They'd rather just spit out what they've believed based on their experiences and not those of anyone else.