(06-07-2020, 11:34 PM)JagJohn Wrote: And I know how you will respond to me; by demanding proof of the ways racism effects the lives of people in the real world. Of course we could go back and forth with statistics about police brutality, incarceration and the economy, but what's the point? In the end you want to boil this down to numbers, numbers and more numbers, because you think that can somehow disprove the existence and effect of racism in America. All the while you ignore, or totally discredit, the most important thing: THE TESTIMONIES OF MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR IN AMERICA WHO SAY THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE BEEN NEGATIVELY EFFECTED BY RACISM. But sure, they've all just been brainwashed by liberals. And you conservatives dare to call liberals elitist [BLEEP] who ignore the voices of real Americans.

Millions of white people said black people were inferior, does that make it so?  

There is no back and forth.  Every data point is on my side. 

Moreover racism in an economy this diverse is meaningless.  It only matters in so much as someone's property rights are affected.  When u allow individuals to have property rights in a free market economy they make their own choices and value judgements.  The diversity of the economic system eliminate sthe capability of institutional or systemic risk/racism/ privilige etc.  

For instance 20 banks are all racist?  30 employers are all racist?  1000 potential clients are ALL racist.  And not just racist, but to such a degree that they will hurt their own economic prospects to indulge in bias?  You cant make that argument.  

Capitalism isnt about HAVING TO eradicate racism, sexism this that or the other thing to make everyone the right kind of person to make the right kind of decisions.  Capitalism is about maintaining a set of incentives to make the WRONG kind of person do the right thing.

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