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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
I'll help LuckBox here....you are correct, society, currently, isn't color blind, but the color blind idea's ultimate goal of reducing and ultimately removing the social significance of race was working. CRT, in many ways, emphasizes and embraces social significance of race, i.e. blackness and whiteness, white always portrayed as bad, and black portrayed as victims of white, this generalizing of racial groups creates resentment and antagonism which will lead to counterproductive behaviors.
You might be surprised but I agree with pretty much all of this.
Society is not more racist now then it was 50 years ago or prior. We have enjoyed steady improvement to the point a decade ago race, outside many hick areas (possibly) was hardly a topic.
That does not mean injustice and inequity were not present, as they were. But when people are busy surviving they have less time to focus on it.
Many of these race issues, like many other Social justice issues as well as the rise in White supremacy are going through what I would call their death throws. And there are advocates on both sides who don't want to see these die in to the quietness of obscurity.
It is a function or comfortableness and degrees of success that allow someone to make many of these things defining issues. Where a parent, who dealt with tremendous racism may have bit their tongue and soldered on just trying to survive and provide for their family, their comfortable kid is a warrior decrying their race challenges.
The rise of white supremacy again is a backlash to it dying, similarly.
Society is much better to embrace Archie Bunker, and gently laugh at him while still allowing him to participate in society than to make him a pariah with no where to go.
in the former Archie can grow to 'love' George Jefferson even as he holds negative stereotypes about him, and more importantly his next generation is far less likely to carry on his bigotry. In the latter Archie finds others who simply hate and they adopt joint victimhood and can justify killing George, given reason and his next generation may be worse than he is.