“Your assumption that white people do not reside in ‘ghettos’ is an ignorant fallacy.”
You still insist on taking my absurd response to an absurd NAACP announcement seriously, huh?
“As for your advice — do you practice what you preach? Your original story was, at heart, just an unnecessary defense in the name of ‘white people.’ All you thought about in writing it was race.”
Really? A defense in the name of ‘white people’? That’s interesting … since I don’t even believe that white people exist as anything more than an overbroad sociological category, just as black people don’t exist as anything more than an overbroad sociological category. I’ve gone out of my way in article after article on Medium to fight the fiction of race that’s doing so much harm in our society. Here is a somewhat detailed exposition of some of my main views on the subject, if you’re interested … though I strongly suspect you’re not interested in doing anything other than reflexively branding me a racist because I don’t fit into your myopic identitarian worldview. For what it’s worth, my article was not a defense of anything. It was poking fun at an absurd announcement by the NAACP. It was, if you want, an attack on our modern-day identitarian lunacy.
“[C]onsider that not every opened opportunity for minorities is an attack on the majority, the same way not everything done with the intention of benefitting the majority is a score against the minority. Being offended and hypersensitive to every little thing people say and do will lead you nowhere.”
I’m very seldom offended by or hypersensitive to anything. I value real progress by minorities, you know, the kind of real economic progress that results in fewer African-Americans living in “the ghetto” and more living a bit more like integrated middle class or upper class Americans of all races. What I don’t value are dumb statements by organizations like the NAACP that tell African-Americans to avoid an entire state (because that state made it harder to file discrimination lawsuits??) that merely result in spreading more anger and bigotry and sowing division among people along racial lines. This isn’t progress. This isn’t an “opened opportunity,” to use your words. It’s a closed door, a door being slammed in the faces of African-Americans and Caucasian Americans alike.
