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Originally Posted by LessinSF
Not necessarily. It is also a state of threateness, if that is a word. I'm not sure why, but Thurgreed viscerally reacted when I said that whites are reacting to the changing demographics of the US that threaten their traditional power. One may not like it, but it was understandable and foreseeable.
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You forget obliviousness. The overwhelming majority of everybody of every background in this country are simply getting up and going to work and doing what people do. The significant friction over and emphasis on identity and differences is,
as this excellent NYTimes article places in stark relief (Twitter link because the paywall won't let me insert direct link), driven by a small number of people.
This doesn't mean these conversations aren't worth having. But it is worth noting, the Starbucks barista probably isn't thinking about #metoo, your GP isn't reading books about post-modern cultural studies, and that lawyer you just spoke to on the phone is never going to understand the friction between academics over gender identification theories. The arenas in which these items are discussed are in a corner of the pinnacle of Maslow's Hierarchy. Most folks have other priorities -- most of them acutely economic. They are oblivious. In some regards, this is good. In other regards, it is bad.
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