We Can’t Have ‘National Dialogues’ If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly

The Federalist ^ | 07/03/2020 | John Loftus

[Steve_Seattle]

“American Racism: We’ve Got So Very Far to Go"

Just shut up, David French. For more than 50 years, every major institution in this country has been actively FIGHTING racism.

Since the major civil rights legislation of the mid-sixties, similar laws have been passed in virtually every state and major city, and hundreds of smaller cities and towns. We have the EEOC and innumerable anti-discrimination agencies at all levels of government.

School curricula have been modified. We have had affirmative action and set-asides for minority firms. Virtually all major corporations - and many smaller ones - have special offices devoted to anti-discrimination compliance and minority outreach.

We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on poverty programs, much of it directed at minorities.

Behavior and speech are closely monitored for "racist" attitudes, and offenders are quickly punished. College campuses and big corporations monitor employee behavior for any signs of "micro-aggressions," intentional or unintentional violations of an unwritten code of racial protocols. Violators are warned or punished.

The only remaining "institutional racism" in this country is the growing frenzy over "white privilege" and "whiteness," a blatant form of overt racism which damns an entire people as irredeemably evil simply because of the color of their skin. But THAT racism is not what French is talking about. He is talking about the minor resentments and prejudices that some people of all races still have and will always have, or that workers in all job categories are not divided up into proportional racial categories. He ignores the factors of personal choice and group culture WITHIN minority groups.

[SkyDancer]

Tell the truth with evidence and you’re branded a racist.

[100%FEDUP]

John Loftus needs to be reminded THERE ARE NO DISCUSSIONS in a marxist cultural revolution!

[eyeamok]

why is it still so hard to have a truly respectful, decent, and humble dialogue Easy!, If we were to have an actual honest conversation with real facts and data, it would require them to look in the mirror and come to the conclusion that the boogeyman they are fighting is looking back at them

[zaxtres]

Take a knee and submit to your new Overlords.

[the OlLine Rebel]

THEYRE NOT CONVERSATIONS, THEYRE LECTURES.

Commies for demographics always literally shout down, drown out, and libel anyone who even puts a question to them

They’re liars. They don’t want to discuss. They want to be the only voice, and tag you for execution for the little you say.

[sergeantdave]

“We Can’t Have ‘National Dialogues’ If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly”

The time for honest discussions has passed. The time for punching leftist weenies in the mouth has arrived.

[gogeo]

Amen.

[gogeo]

There’s no institutional racism (unless aimed at whites), only institutional liberalism.