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Yesterday i wrote that the mainstream news media empowers people with the most abstract relationship to racism to be the arbiters of whether some phenomenon is racist; as as result, racism is treated as some unknowable abstraction and not a measurable reality.
so this dude decides that the measure of the decline in racism is that white people today tell pollsters they wouldn’t mind living next to a Black person. That actual American life is defined by housing segregation/discrimination is less important than white people’s feelings. 
Zooming out a bit, tho: this is part of a larger conservative project by which they try to rewrite the towering moral figure of 20th century American life — a Black radical who wanted to remake our society — as a person whose goals were more or less aligned with theirs 🤔
On cue: if you think of racism as an illness of the soul, and of people’s souls as being necessarily unknowable, than you end up with conclusions like this one.
