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Assessing Hillary Clinton’s loss in The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla observed that the 2016 homepage of the RNC website featured a statement of broad positions on eleven political issues. Yet on the Democrats’ homepage there were links not to positions but to “people” 1/
Each link led to a page “tailored to appeal to a distinct group and identity: women, Hispanics, ‘ethnic Americans,’ the LGBT community, Native Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.... There are 17 such groups, and 17 separate messages,” he wrote. 2/
Fast forward to the 2020 DNC convention and this is the schedule:

Daytime Events (9 AM - 7 PM ET)

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hispanic Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Labor Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

3/
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AAPI Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Black Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Interfaith Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ethnic Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

4/
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Youth Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Women's Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rural Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Seniors Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

5/
2:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LGBTQ Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Muslim Delegates Assembly
Caucus & Council Meeting

1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Small Biz Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Disability Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

6/
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jewish American Community Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Youth Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Native American Caucus Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

7/
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Council on the Environmental and Climate Crisis
Caucus & Council Meeting

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Veterans and Military Families Council Meeting

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Poverty Council Meeting
Caucus & Council Meeting

8/
Plus ça change

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It doesn’t matter if you think of yourself as progressive and a defender of the proverbial underdog, if you insist on seeing others primarily via the lens of race and race alone—if the category is what you see and what matters when interacting with individuals—you are a racist.
Don’t let anyone tell you that only one group of people can be X and everyone else is therefore exempt. That doesn’t obtain in any aspect of human experience, why would it obtain with regard to racism?
And frankly I will say that the above—seeing others primarily through the group category—is a much more tangible and obviously objectionable form of racism than simply failing to actively oppose invisible systems of oppression, yet it is given comparatively short shrift today.
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This is racism, plain and simple. I don’t think she realizes it, but it is. Feeling like your identity insulates you from ever being in the wrong leads to enormous moral blind spots.
What does it mean when she says “among their own”? And just put that logic in the voice of a white person complaining about white men who date Asian “types” for instance.
I’m coming to realize that if you invoke the language of social justice—or just lacquer your points with certain acccepted tropes—you can say *anything* on here with impunity.
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If you have a society that believes in witchcraft and designates a part of its population (erroneously) as witches, persecuting a disproportionate number of them in the process, an understandable short-term response might be to lean into the construct and argue that it matters 1/
A longer term, much more difficult but much more durable solution, however, would be to get a significant enough proportion of the society to understand and accept once and for all that there is simply no such thing as witchcraft or witches 2/
that there are only human beings, all of whom are entitled to equal protection and dignity.

Anyway, that is why I no longer wish to play the All-American skin game and consent to acknowledge false boxes. I don’t want to redeem the category of witch. 3/
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