I really wish people would stop using "the racial reckoning" to refer to the hysteria around race from 2020 (or 2014 depending on where you want to track it).
There was no reckoning, there was actually the opposite of any introspection or actual conversation about race, more a lot of dictated new norms which thankfully are starting to be …
I really wish people would stop using "the racial reckoning" to refer to the hysteria around race from 2020 (or 2014 depending on where you want to track it).
There was no reckoning, there was actually the opposite of any introspection or actual conversation about race, more a lot of dictated new norms which thankfully are starting to be shed.
I hope (and doubt) that in a few years we can look back on this and the lies + misrepresentations that worked the country into a state where apologies and encouragements for riots and removing the police were coming out of the mouths of prominent politicians and nearly every major news outlet, while businesses and schools are advancing racial discrimination as best HR practices.
I wonder if all the people who badgered their friends to donate to causes they had spent literal seconds researching feel foolish for shouting down people to give their money away during a financially difficult period (pandemic), especially knowing what we know now about even the most vaunted of these “charities.”
A HUGE question I don't have time at the moment to express more fully: HOW do "we" "welcome back" all the fools who spent all this time / energy / $$ on the mass stupidity??? (I was one of those fools. Not anymore.)
Well. I never really "kicked them out" so there's nothing to welcome them back to.
There are some I don't socialize with as much anymore, but it wasn't because I ejected them. . . it was just all the absurd proselytizing and judginess. And also the almost comical parodies of clueless upper class, white casual white racism masking as being an "ally".
So, you know, just cut that shit out and we can hang again.
I really wish people would stop using "the racial reckoning" to refer to the hysteria around race from 2020 (or 2014 depending on where you want to track it).
There was no reckoning, there was actually the opposite of any introspection or actual conversation about race, more a lot of dictated new norms which thankfully are starting to be shed.
I hope (and doubt) that in a few years we can look back on this and the lies + misrepresentations that worked the country into a state where apologies and encouragements for riots and removing the police were coming out of the mouths of prominent politicians and nearly every major news outlet, while businesses and schools are advancing racial discrimination as best HR practices.
...sigh
I wonder if all the people who badgered their friends to donate to causes they had spent literal seconds researching feel foolish for shouting down people to give their money away during a financially difficult period (pandemic), especially knowing what we know now about even the most vaunted of these “charities.”
(They do not.)
I always thought the term “reckoning” was used facetiously in this context
lol
I like how Jesse referred to “wreck” as in “wreckening” toward the end of the episode. More apt.
Not just politicians and news outlets but normally-sane people in our everyday lives.
Ok but have you considered that it's a catchy term
A HUGE question I don't have time at the moment to express more fully: HOW do "we" "welcome back" all the fools who spent all this time / energy / $$ on the mass stupidity??? (I was one of those fools. Not anymore.)
I think we just acknowledge that it’s very easy to be fooled and swept up in a mass movement. See: tulip fever.
Well. I never really "kicked them out" so there's nothing to welcome them back to.
There are some I don't socialize with as much anymore, but it wasn't because I ejected them. . . it was just all the absurd proselytizing and judginess. And also the almost comical parodies of clueless upper class, white casual white racism masking as being an "ally".
So, you know, just cut that shit out and we can hang again.