20 years ago, I worked at a large, 1500 person call center in the South. My boss, the director was black, 10 / 11 managers were black, approximately 70 of 90 supervisors were black in a city that is 23% black. A large number of our state House and Senate members are black. We had a black president. I am married to a black woman from Africa and we have a son together. Not once did we experience racism or were stared at for racist reasons. We live in a middle class burb and are surrounded by white, black, Hispanic and Arab neighbors. Hello?
When Obama (whom I supported over McCain) was elected president in 2008 by a populace that was 87% non-black. I thought that would end the accusations that America is a racist country, but it didn't. Sure, there are isolated racist individuals nowadays, but they are few and far between. And the only institutional racism now is Affirmative Action, which is racist against whites. But now, the radical left, epitomized by the Evergreen State College anti-white uprising and Black live Matter, is fomenting racism against whites, which, in turn, will foment white racism against blacks.
@@l.rongardner2150 Yes. They seek to divide and conquer. I think race relations were at their best from the late 90s until around Ferguson. I was the first generation of forced busing in Charlotte and even then relations had been progressively improving since the military was integrated in the 1940s, schools in the 1950s and Civil Rights reiterated the constitutional amendments of the 1860s in 1965. A generation of young adults don't appreciate how far we have come and just want to create chaos instead of seeking truth. They no longer act by thinking but by feeling. Not writing Moby Dick, so I will leave it at that.
Most people are not really racist, and the little that was was decreasing. However the new left radical segment is doing nothing but creating more racism. It is utterly tragic.
@@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184 can be. We worked for the company itself and we're not subcontractors. In our case it was paradise. Call center representative or making money hand over fist and driving Lincoln navigators. It was so good that we have a Facebook reunion page. Call center was 1,500 people and we only lost about five people a year. We also worked for a merit based corporation. I worked for another call center for corporation that was unionized and that was at hell.
Re: Fears about speaking one's mind (related to the final question). I saw an interesting video by Peter Boghossian in which he pulled together a group of students from PSU to discuss their experiences with social justice. It was a small group, but one theme that came to the surface was this very question - where students who had challenged their professors in these studies felt their grade was being impacted negatively simply for posing the argument. Some indicated that they decided to just step back, put their heads down and completed the course work by just parroting back to the professor what s/he wanted to hear. One reason they gave was that the cost of an education was so high that they couldn't afford to chance failing the class. Another interesting thing that came out of it was a warning from one math major that social justice was making headway into math, science and chemistry.
You have pointed out what structural racism is but so very few people can point to an example of structural racism happening now. And so very few ever use affirmative action as one example, yet there it is, actually codified in law and in institutional bylaws.
@12:12. Which institutions don’t give minorities a fair deal? What are the laws or policies that explicitly repress people of color. Why won’t anyone name them? * I challenge anyone to give me an example that has a broad, society-wide effect on racial minorities. *. You will not be able to do it. Oh- aside from affirmative action and corporate diversity and inclusion programs that explicitly favor groups based on sex and color. It’s astounding the even the greatest thinkers among us can not express this
Hicks represents his point of view very poorly in this video. The term “racism” so charged with political emotion at this time, that it is nearly useless in a current discussion. It would be better define race and racism with several other terms, and then discuss forward with these terms. In the current climate one cannot have a nuanced discussion using the word “racism”, without being labeled a racist. So it is a mostly useless word. It is like the N- word, the “nazi” word.
Yep, his almost groveling, very long winded introduction to firmly establish his non-racist soul was sickening. Disgusting, but apparently these days in academia one has to prostrate oneself like this before the alter of political correctness before one can dare discusses anything to do with race - else one gets in big trouble with the PC woke. Can't stand to watch him now.
Let's randomly punch again at like 40:00: 'There are trade offs, there is a health threat and a civil liberties threat, we should do cost benefit, we should base policy on calculations, we should tally the costs... Cultural Marxism is a dangerous thing, Marx formed Marxism, Marxism has problems, then there is neo Marxism, some elements are right, Marx is wrong, there are cultural forces, there is racial economic and environment oppression, there are many elements of culture, the new Left uses the framework of cultural Marxism...' [Let's unpack this. Hicks professes to be an intellectual right? Grossman and the Atlas Society stand for the philosophy of reason right? So Hicks says there are trade offs between the pandemic control of shut downs and the economic and civil liberty issue of shut downs? And we should base policy on calculations? He is asked if Cultural Marxism is a thing, he says yes it is a dangerous thing, but he never gives an example of or defines this dangerous thing? There are different aspects of Marxism and oppression, and there is old Marxism but now there is new Marxism? Does that mean Stephen that at some point there will be an even newer Marxism, a neo neo marxism? Thank you and Jennifer so much for your fantastic philosophy of reason, enlightening us that we should make informed policy decisions, and that Marxism, whatever it is, is evolving.] One of Hicks points seems to be that being a liberal makes you a post modernist, and post modernists are stupid, and thus non post modernists are conservatives are thus smart. But conservatives seem to willingly swallow this fake intellectualism nonsense that Hicks and Peterson offer up. Do the math.
I am skeptical that Hicks has something useful to say here, so I am just going to randomly punch in at around 6:00 and see what he has. 'We see differences in races, you are a rational being you should respect others, intelligence differences, people can be more or less intelligence, was Einstein 2.5 times smarter than me, there is racism on racial differences at an individual level, there was segregation and different laws as institutional racism, if there is a policy of racism then that is wrong, there are sociologies that don't see people as individuals as not real, this eliminates agency, it is mysterious, structural racism, a semi Marxist labeling...' [6 minutes in, seems like 6 minutes wasted. There are levels of intelligence and there used to be segregation and policies regarding different treatment by race? Can Atlas or anyone else fast forward me to something useful Hicks has to say, if it is here somewhere? Thanks.] We have improved from the 1600's, we started challenging racial prejudice, we started eliminating individual racism, overt racism that was universal is much less...' [Apparently Hicks is astonishing us that we are less racist than 400 years ago or even 50 years ago. We all know that Stephen. Do you have something we do not already know to offer here? You claim that post modernists or socialists are stupid; I would think this would imply that you would step forward with wisdom to show the actual difference. Still waiting for it.]
