why are people okay with engaging with the idea of communism, but not antiracism?
i wrote this somewhere else, where people were being fragile about 'woke' and antiracism. maybe it's enlightening for someone here, too but that is the core of the problem: people are fine with engaging with the idea of communism (actually a lot of people aren't, but i imagine people here are), but absolutely not with antiracism. but racism is just as much a systemic thing as economics is. everybody is against racism (again: every rational person here), but nobody wants to think they're contributing to keeping it going. but they have to be, because it *is* ongoing: people of color are systemically disadvantaged (this is where the divide starts among rational thinking people starts, with like half not really wanting to believe this). this not wanting to explore one's own part in this system, is a big part of what keeps the system of racism going. what you probably have to do is do away with shame (this is something i read somewhere: that shame is a pretty usel...