AfterEpictetus
27d ago
I mean, how did people not see that "racism is power + prejudice" basically pattern-matched to bog-standard anti-semitism?
The woke crowd, for a long time, basically ignored Jews and the Japanese as groups within the US. These two groups being counter examples that oppression was the cause of groups having bad/low SES outcomes. The Jews having a multi-thousand year history of it and the Japanese being put into camps and having most of their assets stripped from them during WWII. Both groups doing reasonably well post-war.
There were some attempts at addressing this with talk about the "model-minority myth", but the default was to just not bring it up for a very long time.
Is that true for state/city governments? I'm reaching back a lot here, but I thought a lot of the laws the government uses here required the torturing of the commerce clause that was common between ~1940-2000 and didn't apply to government agencies themselves.
Of course, plenty of government positions do background checks for their own reasons, but I thought there was a big difference in this particular case.
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